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IceCaps Recap – March 26th, 2015

By Josh W

Mar 26, 2015, 13:27 EDTUpdated:

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Courtesy: StJohnsIceCaps.com

Welcome to
the latest instalment of the IceCaps Recap where we review all the weekly
activities of the St. John’s Ice Caps, the AHL affiliation of the Winnipeg
Jets. Similar to the Future NHEhlers
weekly article, we review all the stats and news we can find for your IceCaps.

Continue
past the jump to read what went down.

The Statistics

Not a great week for the St. John’s IceCaps this week – then again losing 3 of 4 games won’t help. Their playoff chances are down to 0.1% so the IceCap’s playoff chances are all but mathematically eliminated.

Friday’s 1-3 Loss @ Worcester

[ IceCap’s Recap ] [ Hightlights ]

In a rare game the IceCaps outplayed the Worcester Sharks but did not have the PDO on their side to win. Connor Hellebuyck posted a Quality Start to try and help the team but ultimately lost due to not capitalizing on any of their 6 power play opportunities.

Saturday’s 1-2 OT Loss @ Manchester

[ IceCap’s Recap ] [ Hightlights ]

The next night, after traveling from Wooster to Manchester, the tired IceCaps faced the Monarchs and were outclassed nearly 2 to 1. The IceCaps earned a lone goal from Kichton, set up from the newly acquired Armia. The IceCaps could not capitalize on any of their 5 power play opportunities and Connor Hellebuyck put up another Quality Start. Hellebuyck was recognized for his efforts with the second star of the night.

Sunday’s 3-2 Win @ Providence

[ IceCap’s Recap ] [ Hightlights ]

The IceCaps finally played another opponent after what seemed like an eternity of just Manchester or Worcester. With a third game in three days the IceCaps then travelled to Providence and were quite lucky to walk away the winners. St. John’s found themselves down 2-0 by the end of the second but were able to score three unanswered goals in the third. Not having any concept of being able to play any other goalie Connor Hellebuyck played his third game in three days and posted a Quality Start. The IceCaps still had not scored on the power play for the week at this point.

Wednesday’s 0-6 Loss @ Portland

[ IceCap’s Recap ]

The final game of this week was a complete blow out in favour of the Portland Pirates. Despite a low shooting event, allowed 4 power play opportunities, the IceCaps were shutout. Connor Hellebuyck had a rare Really Bad Start but the lack of being pulled suggests that the coaching staff is not aware they have another goalie on the roster.

The Players

	Name	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PPG	SOG	SoG/G	Sh%
16	John Albert	C	64	16	26	42	3	26.00	0.66	140	2.19	11.43%
27	Will O’Neill	D	64	10	31	41	-14	59.00	0.64	169	2.64	5.92%
13	Chase Balisy	LW	65	15	20	35	-13	26.00	0.54	90	1.38	16.67%
48	Carl Klingberg	LW	51	15	15	30	0	41.00	0.59	152	2.98	9.87%
14	Eric O’Dell	C	37	14	15	29	-4	34.00	0.78	106	2.86	13.21%
33	Joel Armia	RW	46	10	19	29	-1	45.00	0.63	104	2.26	9.62%
24	Scott Kosmachuk	RW	62	13	12	25	-17	60.00	0.40	111	1.79	11.71%
8	Brenden Kichton	D	57	8	16	24	-10	26.00	0.42	94	1.65	8.51%
19	Kyle MacKinnon	C	44	6	18	24	3	22.00	0.55	72	1.64	8.33%
34	JC Lipon	RW	67	4	19	23	-17	137.00	0.34	114	1.70	3.51%
28	Patrice Cormier	C	41	9	7	16	-12	64.00	0.39	69	1.68	13.04%
4	Keaton Ellerby	D	41	3	13	16	-10	32.00	0.39	68	1.66	4.41%
25	Blair Riley	RW	62	5	10	15	-9	109.00	0.24	58	0.94	8.62%
49	Julien Brouillette	D	42	5	9	14	-1	14.00	0.33	69	1.64	7.25%
50	Austen Brassard	RW	67	5	9	14	-13	55.00	0.21	65	0.97	7.69%
15	Jason Jaffray	LW	28	8	5	13	-4	16.00	0.46	45	1.61	17.78%
26	Nicolas Blanchard	LW	57	3	10	13	-7	77.00	0.23	68	1.19	4.41%
18	Ben Chiarot	D	24	4	5	9	0	21.00	0.38	64	2.67	6.25%
9	Ryan Olsen	C	58	4	5	9	-17	42.00	0.16	55	0.95	7.27%
7	Kris Fredheim	D	53	2	5	7	-6	26.00	0.13	55	1.04	3.64%
44	Julian Melchiori	D	68	1	5	6	-13	54.00	0.09	51	0.75	1.96%
29	Jordan Hill	D	31	1	3	4	-9	25.00	0.13	21	0.68	4.76%
21	Ben Walker	RW	29	1	2	3	-11	14.00	0.10	34	1.17	2.94%
17	Brandon MacLean	LW	35	0	2	2	-4	8.00	0.06	50	1.43	0.00%
47	Ryan Parent	D	17	0	1	1	-1	8	0.06	10	0.59	0.00%
41	Patrick Holland	RW	19	0	1	1	-2	6	0.05	7	0.37	0.00%
2	Peter Stoykewych	D	1	0	0	0	0	2	0.00	0	0.00	0.00%

The Goaltenders

	Name	GP	Min	GA	SO	GAA	W	L	OT	SA	SVS	SAV%
1	Connor Hellebuyck	55	3200:28:00	134	6	2.51	28	20	5	1751	1617	0.923
2	Peter Budaj	15	743:02:00	43	0	3.47	0	8	4	393	350	0.891
3	Jussi Olkinuora	4	185:40:00	13	0	4.20	2	1	0	90	77	0.856

The Transactions

Aaron Harstad was signed to an ATO
Peter Stoykewych was signed to an ATO

The Schedule

The upcoming week shouldn’t be too difficult for the IceCaps. They are playing a back-to-back on the road, with the tougher team on the second night. With the IceCaps almost out of the playoff race hopefully the organization starts to look towards playing some of the other prospects to give them an opportunity.