Comets Militia: Down on the Farm – February 6th, 2015

9 years ago

Courtesy of UticaComets.com

The Utica
Comets weekly report on all the activities down on the Vancouver Canucks farm
team has returned. The Comets have
played 2 games this week and have broken their 5 game losing streak to return
home with 2 points. There was even some
positive regression in their possession numbers.

Read past
the jump to see what went down.

The
Statistics

The Comets
have improved slightly this week though the results aren’t all that clear. Their possession has increased putting them
back to first in the league in possession statistics after dominating Toronto
on the shot clock. Their PDO has dropped
dramatically recently due to their inability to score which has not helped
them. The Comets have also played the
least amount of games in the leagues so the point gap between themselves and
the teams ahead are just as likely a by-product of the games played
differential.

Friday’s
2-3 Loss vs Toronto

[ Utica Comets Recap ]

The Utica
Comets broke their old record for shots in a game by putting over 50 shots
towards Toronto. Even without score
effects the Comets massively outplayed the Marlies but their luck was not with
them tonight. Tom Sestito also contributed to a game without using his fists.

Saturday’s 3-2 OT Win @ Toronto

[ Utica Comets Recap ]

The Comets
decided to play Joacim Eriksson in a back-to-back, a rare move for this team
but one that worked out as he posted a Quality Start.

The Players

	Name	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PPG	SOG	SoG/G	Sh%
21	Dustin Jeffrey	C	36	13	18	31	6	12.00	0.86	71	1.97	18.31%
16	Cal O’Reilly	C	43	4	27	31	-5	8.00	0.72	58	1.35	6.90%
24	Brandon DeFazio	RW	42	14	12	26	6	41.00	0.62	105	2.50	13.33%
6	Bobby Sanguinetti	D	35	8	12	20	17	6.00	0.57	70	2.00	11.43%
17	Nicklas Jensen	RW	30	9	8	17	-7	14.00	0.57	91	3.03	9.89%
28	Alexandre Grenier	RW	34	9	8	17	2	43.00	0.50	75	2.21	12.00%
10	Brendan Gaunce	LW	42	4	13	17	2	15.00	0.40	84	2.00	4.76%
9	Hunter Shinkaruk	LW	42	6	9	15	-1	20.00	0.36	89	2.12	6.74%
3	Alex Biega	D	37	3	11	14	1	14.00	0.38	70	1.89	4.29%
36	Wacey Hamilton	C	31	4	9	13	4	25.00	0.42	42	1.35	9.52%
25	Darren Archibald	LW	38	6	6	12	6	57.00	0.32	69	1.82	8.70%
15	Ronalds Kenins	LW	36	5	7	12	6	23.00	0.33	61	1.69	8.20%
41	Will Acton	C	25	4	5	9	-2	11.00	0.36	42	1.68	9.52%
8	Alex Friesen	C	28	4	7	11	9	29.00	0.39	47	1.68	8.51%
4	Kane Lafranchise	D	23	2	7	9	3	4.00	0.39	32	1.39	6.25%
37	Andrey Pedan	D	23	1	5	6	-3	42.00	0.26	46	2.00	2.17%
26	Frank Corrado	D	21	4	4	8	3	17.00	0.38	50	2.38	8.00%
34	Carter Bancks	RW	32	4	3	7	4	26.00	0.22	48	1.50	8.33%
40	Peter Andersson	D	28	2	2	4	9	18	0.14	35	1.25	5.71%
2	Travis Ehrhardt	D	25	1	3	4	1	18	0.16	25	1.00	4.00%
29	Kent Huskins	D	19	1	2	3	-2	2	0.16	10	0.53	10.00%
14	Mike Zalewski	LW	22	1	2	3	-2	4	0.14	23	1.05	4.35%
27	Tom Sestito	LW	10	1	0	1	-2	20	0.10	11	1.10	9.09%
11	John Negrin	D	16	0	1	1	3	0	0.06	14	0.88	0.00%

The
Goaltenders

	Name	GP	Min	GA	SO	GAA	W	L	OT	SA	SVS	Sv%
1	Jacob Markstrom	19	1120:03:00	37	4	1.98	12	5	2	532	495	0.93
2	Joe Cannata	1	59:00:00	2	0	2.03	0	1	0	24	22	0.917
3	Joacim Eriksson	24	1430:31:00	57	0	2.39	13	6	4	676	619	0.916

Jacob
Markstrom’s bad game this week, with his “mediocre” .930 save percentage has
dropped him to 5th in the league of all goalies.
Sanguinetti thinks Markstrom has good shoveling technique.
Markstrom continues to “revive” his career in the AHL.

The
Transactions

No
Transactions this week

The
Schedule

It will be
a difficult week for the Comets to try and earn all 8 available points. The Comets play a back-to-back-to-back series
while they are the away team for 2 of the 3 games. The Comets will face Adirondack twice, a team
they have not lost to this year, which will be put to the test.