Before the Great Whites-Knights game, we learned that Shea Weber will be assisted by Anders Lee and Brock Boeser until the end of this season. The same type of announcement was also made for the Monsters in the American Hockey League. Starting tomorrow during the match against the Punch Cocks, Matthew Peca will have the captain's C embroider on his jersey. He will be assisted by Matt Benning and Anatoli Golyshev.
Going back to the game, it was a close game until the end ... Unfortunately, Carl Soderberg of the Knights took advantage of a penalty awarded to Adam Larsson to score the goal that ended the overtime.
Brock Boeser, with his 29th of the season, was the only goalscorer for the Great Whites.
His center player on the 1st trio, Alexander Kerfoot collected the only assist on this goal.
Before Brock Boeser's third period goal, Josh Bailey was the only goal scorer during the first 40 minutes of play.
It was a very painful match for the Monsters PP ... With the advantage of a man, the players of Claude Julien made the red light sparkle once in 8 occasions !!! Which gives a total of 13% !!!
The veteran head coach did not mince words after the performance part of a few players. He said that several players had abandoned young goalkeeper Joel Lassinantti who was playing his first real match with the professionals. He also said that he was sad for him because he would like him to record his first victory especially with the match he had just played.
Indeed, Lassinantti was very solid with a performance of 29 saves on 31 shots.
Claude Julien's team will have to be more disciplined in the next games if he wishes to participate in the post-season series. The Great Whites are still 8th in the world conference. They are 3 pts ahead of the Munich team which is in 9th place.
The Great Whites will play their next game on Saturday as they are visited by the best team in the league, the Somerville Hellcats.
(Joel Lassinantti : The best player in the game for the Great Whites. 29 saves from 31 shots (0,935) )