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IceCaps Numbers Recap – February 20th, 2015
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Josh W
By Josh W
Feb 20, 2015, 19:49 ESTUpdated: Invalid DateTime
Courtesy: StJohnsIceCaps.com
We are back with the St. John’s IceCaps Numbers Recap as we review all the underlying numbers, statistics and news over the last week of play for the Winnipeg Jets’ farm team.  It was a crazy week with the IceCaps earning 2 points at home from a massive come back win. 
Read past the jump to see what went down!

The Statistics

With a win and a loss in their pocket this week the IceCaps have not seen any giant shifts in their underlying numbers. Their standings in the rankings have fallen slightly as teams are catching up to their games played. The IceCaps shot differential dropped by nearly -30 in the past week causing their Est. Fenwick Close to decrease by nearly a percentage point and their penalty kill was atrocious dropping 1.5% in efficiency and causing the team to drop 5 places in the PK rankings.

Saturday’s 1-3 Loss vs Worcester

With Saturday’s game coming quickly after traveling for multiple days through snowstorms and having a sick goaltender play the effort was not worse than expected. Connor Hellebuyck tied the franchise record for most consecutive starts and newcomer Joel Armia played his first IceCaps game earning 2 shots on goal and a +1. The hardest working player was Julien Brouillette.

Sunday’s 5-4 OT Win vs Worcester

What a crazy game for the IceCaps. Connor Hellebuyck started his 14th consecutive game setting a new franchise record but only played the first two periods where the IceCaps were down 4-0 with 20 minutes left. Olkinuora came in to start the third the the IceCaps scored 4 unanswered goals to tie up the game before scoring in overtime to secure the two points. Hardest working player was Eric O’Dell.

Players

NamePosGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPGSOGSoG/GSh%
27
Will O’Neill
D
49
9
26
35
-11
33
0.71
118
2.41
7.63%
16
John Albert
C
53
13
21
34
1
18
0.64
115
2.17
11.30%
48
Carl Klingberg
LW
51
15
15
30
0
41
0.59
152
2.98
9.87%
13
Chase Balisy
LW
50
12
18
30
-4
18
0.60
76
1.52
15.79%
33
Joel Armia
RW
35
10
15
25
4
43
0.71
81
2.31
12.35%
14
Eric O’Dell
C
34
12
12
24
-7
30
0.71
99
2.91
12.12%
19
Kyle MacKinnon
C
42
6
18
24
4
22
0.57
70
1.67
8.57%
8
Brenden Kichton
D
42
6
11
17
-14
24
0.40
64
1.52
9.38%
24
Scott Kosmachuk
RW
48
9
6
15
-22
41
0.31
84
1.75
10.71%
25
Blair Riley
RW
47
5
8
13
-6
73
0.28
44
0.94
11.36%
34
JC Lipon
RW
52
1
12
13
-24
108
0.25
94
1.81
1.06%
4
Keaton Ellerby
D
32
3
9
12
-9
26
0.38
49
1.53
6.12%
28
Patrice Cormier
C
26
6
5
11
-7
47
0.42
39
1.50
15.38%
26
Nicolas Blanchard
LW
42
3
8
11
-3
66
0.26
55
1.31
5.45%
15
Jason Jaffray
LW
16
5
5
10
1
10
0.62
25
1.56
20.00%
18
Ben Chiarot
D
24
4
5
9
0
21
0.38
64
2.67
6.25%
49
Julien Brouillette
D
27
3
5
8
1
12
0.30
46
1.70
6.52%
50
Austen Brassard
RW
52
3
5
8
-9
31
0.15
56
1.08
5.36%
7
Kris Fredheim
D
42
2
5
7
-1
16
0.17
43
1.02
4.65%
9
Ryan Olsen
C
43
2
4
6
-18
26
0.14
38
0.88
5.26%
44
Julian Melchiori
D
53
0
5
5
-12
31
0.09
38
0.72
0.00%
21
Ben Walker
RW
26
1
1
2
-11
12
0.08
32
1.23
3.13%
29
Jordan Hill
D
25
0
2
2
-11
19
0.08
16
0.64
0.00%
17
Brandon MacLean
LW
26
0
2
2
-3
8
0.08
37
1.42
0.00%
47
Ryan Parent
D
14
0
1
1
0
6
0.07
9
0.64
0.00%
41
Patrick Holland
RW
9
0
0
0
-2
6
0.00
1
0.11
0.00%

Goalies

NameGPMinGASOGAAWLOTSASVSSAV%
1
Connor Hellebuyck
42
2434:53:00
99
5
2.44
22
15
3
1314
1215
0.925
2
Peter Budaj
13
650:05:00
40
0
3.69
0
7
4
345
305
0.884
3
Jussi Olkinuora
3
125:52:00
11
0
5.24
1
1
0
64
53
0.828

Schedules

The schedule this upcoming week isn’t too friendly for the IceCaps as they play a back-to-back-to-back series (massive schedule loss) while on the road and against two teams that are much stronger in terms of possession statistics.  

Transactions

  • Carl Klingberg has been recalled to Winnipeg

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