Montreal (CP). With Bryan Sakolsky at the helm for the Kilgus Stars and Nadir Lounnas at the helm for the Corrie Stars (based on best record at 40 game mark in each conference), this game proved to be a dandy and one that the home Montreal fans surely enjoyed. Down 4-2 going into the third period, the home team Corrie Stars rallied for three big goals , the last one with just 39 seconds left in the game to pull out a miraculous 5-4 win . The dagger in the heart of the visitors was a goal by Montreal’s own Leon Draisaitl beating Mike Smith up high on the glove hand side . Could you have written a better story?
The Kilgus all stars got off to a quick start when San Diego’s Max Pacioretty put them up 1-0 beating Carolina’s Nedeljkovic five hole. That was the only goal in a very evenly played first period where the shots were 8-7 Kilgus.
In the second period, the goals exploded. First it was dman Mackenzie Weegar from Gatineau scoring a shorthanded goal to make it 2-0. But Pittsburgh’s Alexander Ovechkin tied it up five minutes later. NOt to be outone, just 52 seconds after the Ovechkin goal Auston Matthews scored the first of his two goals on the night beating Peterborough’s Marc-Andre Fleury. But the home team would rally when Montreal’s own Jake Guentzel scored to tighten the game up 3-2. But like last time, it only takes Matthews a minute and change to give the visitors the two goal lead again.
In the third period, Guentzel gets his second of the game to start things off , followed by Regina’s Sebastian Aho tieing up the game with just 4:12 left. That set the stage for the Draisaitl dramatic goal to give the home team the win and send the Montreal fans home happy as their home town Canadiens score four of the five Roger Corrie goals.
January 4 2023 Neutral Ice 01-06-2022
1 2 3 F
2022-23 Charlie Kilgu0-1-0-0 1 3 0 4
2022-23 Roger Corrie 1-0-0-0 0 2 3 5
Scoring Summary
Per Time Str Team
1 4:21 EV CK Pacioretty (16), assisted by Hughes (30) and Couturier (23)
2 1:39 SH CK Weegar (4), unassisted
2 6:53 EV RC Ovechkin (29), assisted by MacKinnon (29) and Theodore (29)
2 7:45 EV CK Matthews (30), assisted by Marchand (28) and Necas (24)
2 16:21 EV RC Guentzel (17), assisted by Robertson (21) and Kane (30)
2 17:44 EV CK Matthews (31), assisted by Necas (25) and Weegar (25)
3 2:12 EV RC Guentzel (18), assisted by Kane (31) and Letang (30)
3 15:48 EV RC Aho (21), assisted by Marner (23) and Carlson (32)
3 19:21 EV RC Draisaitl (30), assisted by Hamilton (23) and Toews (14)
Penalty Summary
Per Time Team
1 1:03 CK Couturier (14), 2:00 - delay of game
1 17:56 CK Huberdeau (30), 2:00 - hooking
2 :28 CK Hughes (12), 2:00 - cross checking
2 8:57 CK Tavares (8), 2:00 - roughing
2 8:57 RC Carlson (10), 2:00 - roughing
3 16:59 RC Toews (12), 2:00 - roughing
SOG 1 SOG 2 SOG 3
Charlie Kilgu 8 15 7
Roger Corrie 7 10 12
CK RC
SOG 30 29
FOW 25 34
FO% 42.4 57.6
Hits 18 20
Blocks 13 10
Missed Net 11 20
Shot Attempts 51 62
Scoring Chances 16 20
PIM 8 4
PP 0-1 0-3
TOA 3:22 3:15
Injuries: Barkov(RC)-game
Star 1: RC Guentzel 2 G
Star 2: CK Matthews 2 G
Star 3: CK Weegar 1 G, 2 Pts
GWG: Leon Draisaitl
Notables: CK None
RC None
Charlie Kilgu GA SV Save% TOI W L OL Rate
G Campbell 0 8 1.000 25:52 13 6 2 8.8 (+0.4)
G Vasilevskiy 2 7 .778 14:08 15 10 3 9.0 (+0.3)
G Smith -L 3 9 .750 19:21 16 8 4 8.0 (-0.5)
Roger Corrie GA SV Save% TOI W L OL Rate
G Nedeljkovic 1 7 .875 19:43 9 7 0 9.5 (-0.1)
G Fleury 3 12 .800 19:49 9 5 6 8.7 (-0.3)
G Merzlikins -W 0 7 1.000 20:00 10 8 2 7.2 (-0.6)
Charlie Kilgu G A P +/- PIM P# S SC Ms Hit Gv Tk Bs FW FL F% TOI Shft Avg PP SH EV
C Couturier - 1 1 -1 2 1 5 2 1 - - - 1 9 8 52.9 19:16 14 1:23 - 0:33 18:43
C Tavares - - - -1 2 1 1 1 1 2 - - 1 - - - 18:56 14 1:21 - - 18:56
LW Pacioretty 1 - 1 -1 - - 6 3 2 - 1 - 1 - - - 18:20 14 1:19 - - 18:20
C Zibanejad - - - 0 - - 2 - - 2 - 3 - 7 10 41.2 16:19 12 1:22 - 4:38 11:41
LW Huberdeau - - - -2 2 1 - - - 1 - - - - - - 14:32 13 1:07 1:30 - 13:02
LW Marchand - 1 1 +3 - - 1 3 2 - 1 1 - - - - 14:22 14 1:02 0:30 3:19 10:33
C McDavid - - - -2 - - 1 - 2 - 1 1 - 3 9 25.0 13:49 12 1:09 2:00 - 11:49
C Matthews 2 - 2 +2 - - 3 4 2 - - - - 6 6 50.0 12:25 9 1:23 2:00 - 10:25
LW C Iafallo - - - -1 - - 1 - - - - - - - 1 0.0 12:13 11 1:07 - 2:08 10:05
RW Stone - - - -2 - - 1 1 - 2 - - - - - - 11:50 11 1:05 - 0:33 11:17
LW RW Perron - - - -1 - - 1 - - - 1 1 - - - - 11:10 9 1:14 - - 11:10
C RW Necas - 2 2 +2 - - 1 - - 1 1 1 - - - - 8:54 7 1:16 - 0:49 8:05
D Slavin - - - +3 - - 2 - - 1 - 1 3 - - - 24:00 16 1:30 - 3:31 20:29
D Makar - - - -3 - - 1 - - - 1 - 2 - - - 21:36 20 1:05 1:01 2:29 18:06
D Hughes - 1 1 +2 2 1 - - - 1 - - 1 - - - 21:24 14 1:32 2:00 - 19:24
D Petry - - - -3 - - 2 - - 5 1 - 2 - - - 21:05 20 1:03 0:30 2:29 18:06
D Weegar 1 1 2 0 - - 2 2 1 3 - - 2 - - - 18:31 16 1:09 - 3:31 15:00
D Barrie - - - -1 - - - - - - - - - - - - 13:54 12 1:10 0:30 - 13:24
Roger Corrie G A P +/- PIM P# S SC Ms Hit Gv Tk Bs FW FL F% TOI Shft Avg PP SH EV
LW C RW Draisaitl 1 - 1 0 - - 5 6 5 2 2 - 1 10 4 71.4 20:28 20 1:01 2:49 1:00 16:39
RW Rantanen - - - -1 - - - 1 1 - - - 1 - - - 19:48 21 0:57 3:11 0:30 16:07
LW C RW Aho 1 - 1 +1 - - 3 3 2 - - - - 1 1 50.0 16:00 15 1:04 2:49 1:01 12:10
C RW MacKinnon - 1 1 -1 - - 2 - 1 2 - - - 2 1 66.7 16:00 18 0:53 3:11 0:30 12:19
RW Kane - 2 2 +1 - - 2 - 1 1 - - - - - - 15:49 15 1:03 2:49 - 13:00
C O'Reilly - - - +1 - - - 1 - 1 - - 1 10 4 71.4 14:38 15 0:59 - 1:01 13:37
C RW Pavelski - - - 0 - - 1 1 - - - - - 2 5 28.6 14:33 17 0:51 - - 14:33
LW C RW Guentzel 2 - 2 +1 - - 2 3 - 1 - - - 2 7 22.2 13:01 16 0:49 - - 13:01
LW RW Robertson - 1 1 +1 - - - - - - - - 1 - - - 12:29 14 0:54 - - 12:29
C Barkov - - - -1 - - - 2 1 1 - 1 - 7 3 70.0 11:14 12 0:56 3:11 - 8:03
RW Marner - 1 1 +1 - - 3 - 1 1 1 - - - - - 11:14 11 1:01 - - 11:14
LW Ovechkin 1 - 1 0 - - 4 3 1 1 - - - - - - 11:12 14 0:48 - - 11:12
D Carlson - 1 1 +2 2 1 1 - 2 4 - - 2 - - - 25:08 23 1:06 5:11 2:00 17:57
D Theodore - 1 1 +3 - - - - - - - - - - - - 21:41 24 0:54 0:49 - 20:52
D Hamilton - 1 1 -1 - - 1 - 3 1 - - - - - - 20:49 22 0:57 5:11 - 15:38
D Hedman - - - -1 - - 2 - - - - - 2 - - - 19:53 26 0:46 0:49 2:00 17:04
D Toews - 1 1 0 2 1 2 - - 2 - - 2 - - - 17:08 19 0:54 - - 17:08
D Letang - 1 1 -1 - - 1 - 2 3 - 1 - - - - 15:20 22 0:42 - - 15:20
12/1 Jersey at Carolina
12/4 Gatineau at Carolina
12/7 Nelson at Carolina
12/10 Harper Woods at Carolina
12/13 Lakeland at Carolina
12/19 Pittsburgh at Carolina
12/22 Portland at Carolina
Alex Killorn took a pass from Mikko Rantanen and beat Carey Price top-shelf just 55 seconds into overtime, to give Harper Woods a come-from-behind 3-2 win over Lakeland. The Hornets trailed 2-1 entering the third period, after Nick Foligno’s wrister beat Igor Shesterkin to put Lakeland ahead in the waning moments of the second period. But Danny DeKeyser tied things up when his one-timer from the blueline beat Price just twenty seconds into period three. 
Portland visited Harper Woods and started ex-Hornet property Kevin Lankinen in goal against seldom-played David Rittich. Mikko Rantanen gave the home team the lead with an unassisted effort with just 4:45 to go in the first period. But then Portland scored late and twice on a shaky Rittich (Thompson, Garland) to end the period up 2-1. The visitors increased their lead to 3-1 when Tolvanen scored with the man advantage just over 5 minutes into period 2. Rantanen’s 2nd of the game, and 20th of the season made it a one-goal game, and the period ended with the Buckaroos leading 3-2. A mere 1:12 into the third period Ondrej Palat deflected Bo Horvat’s slapper past Rittich to once again give Portland a two-goal lead. But then Killorn, Ehlers and Craig Smith all scored in succession on a suddenly vulnerable Lankinen to turn the tide in favor of Harper Woods, and to give the Hornets a comeback 5-4 win. Smith’s GWG came with 4:12 left in what, from a statistical standpoint, was a pretty evenly played contest. 
The Peterborough Petes come to town and this was a tight one. Both goalies were outstanding and it looked like this one might go into overtime tied at zero. BUt Tom Wilson takes a pass from Owen Tippett and beats Marc-Andre Fleury to give the Cougars the win and shutout for Brossoit. 
Arch rival , the Spokane Flyers, come to town. I don’t care what their record is, they always give us a battle. This game was no different. Spokane jumps out to a 1-0 lead and then Victoria comes back with two goals to take a 2-1 lead early in the third period. Cougars were thinking now they had the lead, they can play defensive and put this one in the bag. But no…. Flyers come back with two goals to take a lead midway through the third. But Owen Tippett scores with just under four minutes to play, and then Stone scores in overtime, his second of the game, to give the Cougars a dramatic 4-3 overtime win over the visiting Flyers. 
Spk – Despite a vast disparity in the standings the Flyers just wouldn’t go away in this one including back to back goals by Connor Brown & Erikson Ek to tie it with under 5 to go chasing Halak. The Leaf 4th line restores the 1 goal lead at 17:54 and the Flyers could not beat Koskinen in relief and that is how this one ends 6-5 for the Leafs.
Mtl – Dirty Rotten Habs steal this one as Halak craps the bed to start forcing Koskinene back in in relief and he is no better stopping 8 of 10 shots he saw before Halak went back in with the game tied at 3 to try win the game but he was not up to the task! MacKinnon with a pair past Halak to off set Saad’s 10th and the Habs win 5-4.
Car – No easy games for this squad it seems. The Leafs have the Whalers under the gun all game and lead 2-0 with time winding down when Martinez beats Halak to cut the lead to 1 at 18:27 of the 3rd. Halak takes a long look at the bench after being pulled the past 2 home games but after playing well for 58 minutes he has earned enough leash to try and finish this one out. The Leafs make it fairly easy controlling play and keeping Dreidger in the net for most of it. Jarnkrok does make it interesting with a snipe of a Compher feed but Halak has his glove in position to snub that snipe and the Leafs take it 2-1
SD – The leafs run up a 3-0 lead on a pair by Larkin and one from Couture before 40. The Gulls rally in the 3rd as the Leafs seem in full turtle mode allowing goals from Giroux & Patches and being out shot 15-4 in the period. But they do enough to hold on for a 3-2 win in Ilya Sorkoin’s 1st CHA start.
SC – Finally the Leafs play up to expectations and make it look easy with 3 goals from the blueline and a pair from the 4th line in a 5-1 win, maybe that 4th line should be treated like a 1st line at this point!
AVA – The Argo’s are always a tough out and this is no exception! They perferate the young Sorokin for 3 (Oshie, Suter & Panarin) on 13 shots and chase the rookie before the end of the 1st>. He will need to be better to become the starter in Nelson. The Leafs manage a pair but fall short 3-2 this night.
Ken – Another division match up. After a blank 1st Atkinson opened the scoring with his 10th. Mantha answers right back 31 second later. The top line scores when Hoffman tips home a Zibanejad slapper to give the home side the lead 90 seconds later. The teams then settle down after that offensive flurry and no one else scores until Zibanejad’s 15th finds the empty cage with 19 seconds to go and the Leafs end the month with a 3-1 win.
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