The OKC Barons and the Toronto Marlies series is a series of interest for college hockey fans as well as Fighting Sioux Hockey fans. Last night, former Fighting Sioux forward Chris VandeVelde scored the fourth goal of the game for the Oklahoma City Barons as they evened their series against the Toronto Marlies with a 5-1 victory. This series features three ex-Fighting Sioux hockey players (TOR) Matt Frattin (OKC) Taylor Chorney and Chris VandeVelde
Just a point of interest - only 2621 fans attended last night's game. After looking at this attendance figures I went back and looked at the OKC Barons attendance figures for the season and there are 19 Division I college hockey teams that have have better attendance than the OKC Barons.
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To complete our look back at the 2011-12 Maple Leafs, we evaluate a young prospect who was acquired at the trade deadline and may have not been ready for prime time, their enforcer and the organization’s top prospect, who has yet to make a significant impact three years ago.
Note: Reviews of Jussi Rynnas, Colton Orr and Ryan Hamilton were not done since they played less than 5 games with t...
With eight days between the last game the Toronto Marlies played, Marlies Head Coach was not sure if his team were going to be rusty or rested; but in the end the Marlies own the Oklahoma City Barons, winning by the score of 5-0 in game one of the AHL Western Conference Finals.
“The start was huge for us,” Eakins said. “It actually started right off the first shift. We were able to catch them sleeping, and we never let up. I thought our forwards did a great job of getting in on their defence and being physical.”
“Our execution was excellent,” Eakins said. “We had practiced very hard and had scaled them back to make sure they were ready. The young men came out flying tonight.”
With this win, Toronto Marlies’ Ben starting goalie Ben Scrivens recorded his second shutout and made 31 saves for an 8-1 playoff record.
Oklahoma City goaltender Yann Danis had 27 saves in front of 2,596 fans at the Cox Convention Center.
As for the Toront...
When you consider the overall depth between the pipes for the Toronto Maple Leafs there are far more questions than sure things.
Sure, Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Brian Burke has the likes of James Reimer, Ben Scrivens (pending RFA this summer), Jussi Rynnas (pending RFA this summer) and Mark Owuya in the system, but what has he really got?
James Reimer’s disruptive injuries last season saw him go from a franchise savior in 2010-11 to a very average goaltender in 2011-12. Sophomore slumps occur for many second year goaltenders. In the case of Reimer, most of his issues look to be injury related, although there are those that continue to lament that Reimer’s weak glove hand and lack of focus on soft goals will ultimately lead to his demise as a legitimate NHL goalie.
In the case of Reimer, until we know the full extent of his injuries it is tough to project him as the Maple Leafs number one goaltender. Don’t get me wrong here, Burke maintains that he believes Reimer is still ...
The Marlies kept on marching in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals despite a significant layoff after a quick second round series win against Abbotsford. Call them the Los Angeles Kings of the AHL post season; they’re now 8-1 in the playoffs and it seems to matter little whether they’re playing at home or [...]
Make it eight.
No, not Canadian teams -- consecutive wins for the Los Angeles Kings, who took a 3-0 series lead over the Phoenix Coyotes in the Western Conference Finals with a 2-1 Game 3 victory.
While the result was the same, Thursday night's script was slightly different, at least for the first 21 minutes. The Coyotes came out stronger in Los Angeles, outshooting the Kings 11-8 in the first period and showing that they wouldn't go easily.
A minute into the second period, they finally beat Jonathan Quick, as Daymond Langkow slipped a shot through the LA netminder's pads on a partial breakaway to give the Coyotes their first lead of the series.
But only 127 seconds later, the Kings answered. Dustin Brown found Anze Kopitar streaking in behind the Phoenix defence, and Kopitar made two elite plays to tie the score: first, he deftly accepted the pass by kicking it from his skate to his stick, and second, he opened up Mike Smith up with a first-class deke, slipping the puck through the five-hole.
And then the Kings kept answering.
s/t to @BrittsLyfe for posting this on Twitter... Check out this goal by Toronto Marlies forward Matt Frattin. I am sure this looks familiar to Fighting Sioux hockey fans who watched Frattin score a bunch of goals that looked a lot like this one.
It’s a meeting of two top AHL affiliates of a pair of young and rebuilding Canadian NHL franchises, both vying for a spot in the Calder Cup Final. The Western Conference final between the AHL Western Conference’s top two teams in the Toronto Marlies and Oklahoma City Barons has little separating them on paper. A [...]
As the Leafs exams continue we look at a big free agent signing from two years ago that to this point has been a dismal failure, a role player who did not fulfill his role and a prospect who did not look out of place during a brief look see in the big leagues.
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What did go well with the Toronto Maple Leafs for the season of 2011/12, even though there were some major disappointments and flaws in the Toronto Maple Leafs team?
The aspect of what I think went well during this last season for the Toronto Maple Leafs is the dynamic duo of Phil Kessel and Joffrey Lupul. This season Kessel set careers high is goals (37), assists (45) and points (82), while Lupul had career highs in assists (42) and in points (67).
More specifically Lupul assisted on 17 of Kessel’s 37 goals this season before missing the last 13 game with a shoulder injury. Kessel is under contact for the next two seasons and if Lupul performs as well as he did last season, expect General Manager Brian Burke to get Lupul under a new contact before next year’s NHL trade deadline.
In the end there is hope for the Maple Leafs in Kessel and Lupul, as well as quite a few player in the Marlies, some of the Maple Leafs defenseman and James Reimer we will have to wait in...
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