Official 3/30/08 Game Thread - Monsters at Marlies

Lake Erie Monsters (25-35-567) at Toronto Marlies (45-18-3-6)
Date: Sunday, March 30th
Time: 4:00 p.m. EDT
Arena: Ricoh Coliseum
Radio: Listen live here to ESPN 850 WKNR
Webcast: Live through B2

Sunday's Quick Facts:
This afternoon's game in Toronto finally wraps up Lake Erie's week of five games in six days. All five games come against North Division opponents, including Toronto twice. The Marlies are the top team in the North with 99 points. The Monsters enter today's game in the sixth spot with 63 points.

Today is the eighth meeting of the season between Lake Erie and Toronto, including the second in three days. The Marlies defeated the Monsters, 4-1, in Cleveland on Friday. Lake Erie is 2-5 against Toronto in the series, including 1-2 in Ontario. Chris Stewart has recorded six points (5G, 1A) against the Marlies, including a hat trick way back on November 17th. T.J. Hensick has contributed four points (2G, 2A) in the series.

After his hat trick last night in Syracuse, Brad Richardson had produced 22 points (6G, 16A) over the past 13 games for the Monsters. After adding two assists against the Crunch last night, T.J. Hensick has recently recorded 12 points (2G, 10A) in as many games.

I checked the score 24 minutes into the game, and the Monsters trailed 5-0. Can we just throw in the towel for the rest of the season? It's embarrassing.

rename the team "monsterous" with the way they're playing! we're total palookas and i feel bad for rochester that we're ahead of them.


also, anyone notice how other AHL teams sold their gameworn jerseys? Manitoba put them all on ebay, syracuse has a silent auction on their website. maybe next year the monsters will do something similar.

I was at the Toronto game, and the boys looked tired. We played with only 5 D-men. You won't get very far with that many at this level. To boot.. at one point in the 1st period, we went with 4. Denisov took the pre game skate but didn't dress for the game. Anyone know what is up with that?

I am beginning to think our Goalies might be the best 3 players we have.
I know they all have their limitations but they do get exposed so I am giving Wall a pass the rest of this year...

I guess this would be a great time for a HOOVER Arena reference...LOL... THEY ARE REALLY STARTING TO SUCK!! Yes. The goalies are really getting the workout these days.. sure looks like the rest of the boys are phoning it in!

yet another hallmark of poor coaching.

didnt listen to the game, but i didnt think we had a chance anyway. i am embarrassed that we are ahead of rochester. rochester had it bad this year being a double affiliation. if they get one more team in to match the nhl then rochester might be tougher next season and i pray for us if we dont get any better. i mean 6-1 losses, 7-2 losses these are baseball scores and they are talking about shortening the goalie equipment down again.
we need a solid defensive core to help out the goaltending or maybe just better coaching as well.
oh well theres always next season.