Healthy scratches tonight are defensemen Kirill Tulupov and Kevin Montgomery.
Injured scratches are Linus Omark, Tristan Grant, Ryan Lowery, Andrew Lord, Tyler Pitlick.
Two hot teams going head to head tonight. The Barons bring a 6 game winning streak into the game and San Antonio brings a 7 game winning streak on to the ice tonight.
Yann Danis with the start in net.
Curtis Hamilton getting a rare chance on the 1st line with Josh Green and Ryan Keller.
Paajarvi uses his speed and busts in for a solid early 1st period scoring chance.
Ryan O'Marra with big hit on a Rampage player.
Bryan Helmer with a shot from the point, Ryan O'Marra tips the point shot and it rings off of the goal post.
Barons all over the Rampage on this shift with the forward line of House-O'Marra-Tremblay giving the Rampage fits.
Hartikainen sets up defenseman Dylan Yeo for another good scoring chance.
Antti Tyrvainen sets up Cam Abney in the slot for a shot on net.
Paajarvi sets up Alex Plante in the slot but he shoots it wide of the net.
OKC scores to take a 1-0 lead.
Goal scored by Hunter Tremblay with assists to Magnus Paajarvi & Mark Arcobello.
The play was a nice one from Paajarvi deked past a guy behind the goal line, faked everyone he was going around the back of the net and made a nice one handed pass out to Tremblay.
Each team had one power play in the period. The shots are 9-7 in favour of Oklahoma.
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One of the Rampage's physical players tries to get in Bryan Helmer's face. Colten Teubert goes after him, gets in his face and the guy backs down. (edit - Seems like this move by Teubert calmed down the entire SA team and they did not try anything after that for the remainder of the game.)
Josh Green sets up Ryan Keller for a dangerous scoring chance in the slot, goalie saves the shot and Curtis Hamilton missed his swipe at the rebound (and a likely goal) by inches.
Yann Danis with a pair of goal stealing rob type saves.
San Antonio coming hard early in the second.
Tremblay with another big scoring chance off an O'Marra set up. Good save by the Rampage goalie.
Two of the Barons Dmen Yeo and Ringwald I think it was lead a rush and down deep on a rebound chance.
The Barons go on the power play in the dying minutes of the second period.
OKC scores to make it 2-0 with less than 30 seconds left in the period.
Goal scored by Ryan Keller with the lone assist to Josh Green.
Keller came flying down the wing, made a move around a defender and blasted one past the goalie from the top of the face off circle.
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Curtis Hamilton absolutely robbed on what apparently looked like a sure goal. Ryan Keller set him up with a nice feed.
Ryan O'Marra hits the goal post on a break away chance.
San Antonio hits the goal post on a great scoring chance and then another SA player gets absolutely robbed on the rebound shot. Great work by Danis.
The Rampage goalie Grumet-Morris, one of the hottest goalies in the league lately robs Curtis Hamilton for the second time this period on a dangerous scoring chance.
Cam Abney busts into the slot, takes a good shot on net, rebound picked up by Mark Arcobello but the SA goalie comes up large with another big save.
Both Colten Teubert and Taylor Chorney with some nice plays down low to thwart good San Antonio scoring chances.
Barons come down on the rush and score to make it 3-0.
Goal scored by Ryan O'Marra on a pretty pass off the rush by Antti Tyrvainen, second assist goes to Tanner House.
OKC holds on to win the game 3-0!
Yann Danis with the shut out. Barons the first team to 30 wins on the season. The Barons also set a franchise record 7 straight wins!
Last edited by Oilerdiehard: 02-02-2012 at 09:32 PM.
I am starting to wonder what we have to do to keep Coach Nelson. Would he take an assistant role?
Highest paid coach in the AHL for next year and then guaranteed highest paid associate coach in the NHL if not one of the top 10 highest paid coaches in the NHL?
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Glad to see the Barons doing well and it's especially impressive considering how many call ups they've been forced to deal with.
I imagine a solid farm team can do wonders for an NHL team's prospect development which bodes very well for the Oilers.
Yes and the Barons also simultaneously to that had nearly as many injuries as the big club did. That also included some injuries to some of their best players (ie - Hartikainen, Omark, Keller etc...).
I am starting to wonder what we have to do to keep Coach Nelson. Would he take an assistant role?
I doubt it, his last job was as an NHL assistant.
Last night the Islanders head scout (Miracle legend Ken Morrow!) was at his third straight Barons game. I tried to look at his notes to see who he was scouting but failed. My bet is he's looking at either Alex Plante or one of the goalies.
I don't think they have to do anything for that team. They already sent PRV down, Cornet will go back down when RNH comes back and Omark will be back from injury. That is a lot of talent and depth. There only "weak" spot maybe D but they are the best defensive team in the AHL right now.
My biggest concern is they are peaking too early and will come down at the wrong time. I hope not I want to see a long playoff run
Last night the Islanders head scout (Miracle legend Ken Morrow!) was at his third straight Barons game. I tried to look at his notes to see who he was scouting but failed. My bet is he's looking at either Alex Plante or one of the goalies.
Interesting, thanks for that tidbit. I guess another possibility would be Paajarvi as this is his 3rd game since returning to the AHL.....
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So here's a question, does Edmonton do what Washington did yesterday and start making some moves that make their AHL team deeper for the playoff run?
We might get a solid young D prospect in return from deadline deals, that or we could send down Potter and see if he clears.
Healthy scratches tonight is defensemen Kevin Montgomery and Philippe Cornet (he arrived in town shortly before the game and has had a ragged schedule going straight from the all-star game, two games in Edmonton and then traveling to OKC).
Injured scratches are Linus Omark, Tristan Grant, Ryan Lowery, Andrew Lord, Tyler Pitlick.
Kirill Tulupov draws in tonight as fellow defenseman Dan Ringwald has the flu. Also a change in net but otherwise the same line up as last night.
The Barons played last night but Charlotte has not played for a week so they should be well rested.
David LeNeveu with the start in net tonight.
Charlotte with an early power play (Checkers have 2nd best PP in the league). The Barons kill it off with some strong work from the top PK defensive pairing of Teubert and Plante.
Mark Arcobello and Magnus Paajarvi with a dangerous 2 on 1 rush but the Checkers Dman managed to knock the pass away from Paajarvi at the last second.
Charlotte back to the power play again with a kneeing penalty to O'Marra. The Barons league best PK manages to kill off another one.
Tyrvainen, O'Marra and Plante team up to keep the puck in the Checkers zone for a long extended shift and manage to draw a penalty. Some decent pressure on the man advantage but no convert.
Charlotte scores to make to take a 1-0 lead.
Dylan Yeo sets up Mark Acrobello for a solid scoring chance.
Ryan O'Marra with a crushing hit and he steals the loose puck and busts in on net for a scoring chance.
Shots are 9-6 in favour of Charlotte at the end of one.
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Curtis Hamilton with a nice set up to Josh Green who fans on the puck but Hamilton immediately steals the puck back again and sets up Dylan Yeo for a dangerous scoring chance on another nice set up.
Tulupov absolutely plasters a Charlotte player to the boards and the Charlotte player Dadanov limps off the ice slowly looking dazed.
Curtis Hamilton busts in with a good shot on net.
Charlotte scores again to take a 2-0 lead.
Coach Nelson was pissed off on the bench as he felt their was an obvious interference penalty that went uncalled just before the goal.
Barons put on good pressure with nice scoring chances from both Ryan Keller and Josh Green. But again fail to convert on the power play.
The line of Hamilton-Green-Keller are all over Charlotte for a long shift.
OKC scores to cut the Checkers lead in half at 2-1.
Goal scored by Curtis Hamilton with the assists to Ryan Keller & Josh Green.
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The Barons take an early penalty (Josh Green slashing) which is tempting fate to keep giving the 2nd best power play in the league a lot of chances giving them so many chances.
Charlotte scores on the PP to regain their two goal lead making the score 3-1 now.
This is the first time OKC has given up more than 2 goals in a game in 2012.
OKC with back to back power plays, they get decent pressure but again fail to convert.
Mark Arcobello has had a couple / few rushes tonight where he set up Magnus Paajarvi in prime shooting position and he has just hesitated to the point that the puck was just taken or knocked the puck away from him. The announcers were talking that with his talent level he should have way more goals but has been doing the above a lot in recent games.
Teemu Hartikainen has had a very quiet night, almost invisible night tonight. He has zero shots on net tonight and has hardly even touched the puck.
Colten Teubert rings a hard point shot off of the goal post.
Charlotte thought they scored but the referee waived it off immediately and said it was a distinct kick in goal.
Magnus Paajarvi with two shots in close on the power play.
Ryan Keller takes a bad slashing penalty with about 3 minutes left in the period.
OKC loses 3-1.
The Barons 7 game winning streak comes to an end tonight.
Curtis Hamilton was the 3rd star selection tonight.
Last edited by Oilerdiehard: 02-03-2012 at 09:34 PM.
Last night the Islanders head scout (Miracle legend Ken Morrow!) was at his third straight Barons game. I tried to look at his notes to see who he was scouting but failed. My bet is he's looking at either Alex Plante or one of the goalies.
I believe back in the summer there was a rumor of NYI being really high on Hartikainen. Sorry, no link.
Hamonic would be a great guy to target imo, though I doubt he is up for grabs.
Okposo is another guy that is interesting and really someone I could see management targeting.
Hartikainen alone would not get you either of those guys though, of course.
does it seem like Curtis Hamilton is starting to get it going? It seems he's getting a lot of chances lately.
Yep. I'm surprising it's going so quickly. Thought it would have taken longer to get used to playing with adults. Him and Pitlick could easily see some NHL time next season if they could explode next year.
Official Oklahoma City Barons
#OKCBarons fans raised $24,300 to benefit @SOOklahoma in jersey auction. Top bids were for Tulupov ($1750) & Hartikainen ($1,600) jerseys
Official Oklahoma City Barons
#OKCBarons fans raised $24,300 to benefit @SOOklahoma in jersey auction. Top bids were for Tulupov ($1750) & Hartikainen ($1,600) jerseys
Splendid !
Barons fans did well in the auction, I was surprised some went as high as they did. I'm the proud owner of Tyler Pitlick's, who I hope will make me look like a genius for spending on it. Figured he'd be a good one being so young and highly touted to really make a mark in the NHL. The sweaters were beautiful, I think you Edmonton folks would like them
does it seem like Curtis Hamilton is starting to get it going? It seems he's getting a lot of chances lately.
Hoping between PRV,Pitlick,Hamilton,Harti we can get 2 guy there to fill in the missing power forward roles in the top 6....if the future top 6 includes
???-RNH-Eberle
Hall-Gagner-????
if Oilers management can fill those question marks with a couple 6'2 guys with skill and dont mind mixing it up then we are pretty set up front
The Barons should just use the Oilers orange/blue jerseys with the Barons logo on it full time and have the navy as an alternate. It'd be the slickest jersey in the AHL (because it already is in the NHL )
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