Because of the weather, it’s been a light week for the AHL’s Manchester Monarchs, who had Monday’s home game against Springfield postponed. The Monarchs did play last night, and beat Adirondack 6-2. The Monarchs took a 6-0 lead less than seven minutes into the second period and won easily. Rich Clune had two goals, and the Monarchs got one goal each from Dwight King, Jordan Nolan, David Kolomatis and John Zeiler. Zeiler also had two assists, as did Justin Azevedo, and King had an assist. Martin Jones stopped 20 of 22 shots in goal.
Jones, a first-year pro, now leads the AHL in goals-against average (1.61) and save percentage (.947). As for scoring, Andrei Loktionov leads the Monarchs in points (26) and assists (21). Azevedo has a team-high 10 goals. Viatcheslav Voynov leads defensemen in scoring with 25 points (five goals, 20 assists). Bud Holloway is another top scorer, with nine goals and 15 assists. Loktionov and Thomas Hickey each have a team-best plus-12 rating.
The Monarchs are in first place in the Atlantic Division and are next scheduled to play on Friday at home against Providence.
nice to have these guys down there in the wings, the boys up top better watch out…….lol gkg
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I absolutely love the way our players are developing in both Manchester, and the Juniors..Thanx Dean Lombardi for showing a lot of us fans the right way to build, and develop a hockey organization !
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KC23 Reply:
December 30th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
@puck73, You are forgiven as you’ve been out of town, but this is the DL and TM should get fired part of the week. The thank you to DL and TM was Wednesday. You also missed a rare opportunity to talk about how Quick should be traded and Bernier is God. Once you get back home I suspect you’ll be better informed.
:p
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Kingsfanone Reply:
December 30th, 2010 at 7:44 pm
@puck73,
Hey dude! Thanks for the good mojo ay the SJ game! I hope both of you had a great trip & Happy New Year should ER not connect!
PS- missed your input here!
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Kingsfanone Reply:
December 30th, 2010 at 7:47 pm
@Kingsfanone,
…….should WE not connect.
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Thanks Holly for your updates all season over/back/not down there…
How’s your weather, by the way?
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holly Reply:
December 30th, 2010 at 6:44 pm
@BakoCAkingsCondorsGuy, It’s actually not bad now. They’re predicting 50 on Saturday. Sunday night into Monday was miserable because of the wind, the 14 inches of snow wasn’t really that big of a deal. New Jersey/New York got hit harder than we did (as the Toronto bus and Elias/Zajac vehicle occupants found out the hard way).
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good too hear Jordan Nolan is scoring, hope is brought up at some point and given a chance, responsible and good size..
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mrbrett7 Reply:
December 30th, 2010 at 6:12 pm
@Harty, Where exactly would you play him?
The Nolan I saw during the lone preseason game (here in Denver) was a HUGE kid, who needs ALOT of work. There were multiple shifts where he could barely stay on his skates.
He has some raw skills, but he is at least a couple of years away, at leas from the one game I saw.
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holly Reply:
December 30th, 2010 at 6:46 pm
@mrbrett7, I agree. Nolan has size and skill, but he isn’t necessarily at the point where he’s putting everything together on an NHL level.
I like Nolan a lot and I think eventually he’ll be a solid 3rd/4th line guy, but not now and probably won’t be ready to get a look until the end of next season. He’s putting the pieces together and is a lot of fun to watch on the ice, but he just isn’t ready.
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Harty Reply:
December 30th, 2010 at 7:00 pm
@holly, just a personal connection, Jordan is my 1st cousin’s boy. (Sandra Nolan)
I would like it if he and Cliffy were around our pool in the summer in Ayr, Ontario. then I would hear the stories if Jordan played in the league also
Love the Manchester updates. I would subscribe to AHL live if it wasn’t so over priced. I would love to take in some games. I really don’t get how AHL live believes that they’ll get that kind of money for streaming minor league games.
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bryanagee Reply:
December 30th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
@KC23,
I wholeheartedly agree…100%! I noticed that last season and was shocked/disappointed.
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holly Reply:
December 30th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
@KC23, If the stream was good quality I could see it.
The problem is that in most of the arenas the footage comes from the in-house video staff who are recording primarily for replay footage and for team use. They aren’t necessarily focusing on putting together a quality broadcast.
Listening to Ken Cail is probably a better (not to mention cheaper) option.
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I’m pretty sure near the end of the AHL season, most teams were tired of seeing Bernier. Now they are getting tired of seeing Jones.
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holly Reply:
December 30th, 2010 at 6:49 pm
@Who knows?, I think the only goalie we’ve had in recent years that teams didn’t dread seeing was Fukifuji. Though, they didn’t dread Cloutier for his goaltending skills…
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