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Comets Militia: Down on the Farm – January 30th, 2015
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Josh W
By Josh W
Jan 30, 2015, 11:30 ESTUpdated:
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Welcome back to the weekly installment of the Comets Militia Report, where we look at all recent happenings down on the farm.  It’s been a rough month for the Comets, as they have now lost 4 games a row, their worst stretch in a calendar year.
Read on to review what happened.

The
Statistics

The Utica Comets have fallen off the top spot in the possession rankings, something we have forecasted for the last few months.  You can see all all AHL team level fancystats at HockeyStats.ca.  Their rolling possession numbers are below, and you can see that lately they have been playing as bad as the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The Comets PDO has also “fallen” to more normal averages – their team level save percentage is great but the shooting percentage has fallen below average after having been unable to score a goal this week.

Friday’s
1-5 Loss @ Grand Rapids

[ Utica Comets Report ]

Saturday’s
0-3 Loss @ Rockford

[ Utica Comets Report ]

All Star
Game

Players

NamePosGPGAPTS+/-PIMPt/GSOGSoG/GSh%
21
Dustin Jeffrey
C
34
12
18
30
5
12
0.88
68
2.00
17.65%
16
Cal O’Reilly
C
41
4
26
30
-6
8
0.73
56
1.37
7.14%
24
Brandon DeFazio
RW
40
13
12
25
4
39
0.62
98
2.45
13.27%
6
Bobby Sanguinetti
D
34
8
12
20
15
6
0.59
67
1.97
11.94%
17
Nicklas Jensen
RW
28
9
8
17
-6
12
0.61
82
2.93
10.98%
28
Alexandre Grenier
RW
32
8
8
16
0
43
0.50
65
2.03
12.31%
10
Brendan Gaunce
LW
40
4
12
16
3
15
0.40
74
1.85
5.41%
9
Hunter Shinkaruk
LW
40
6
9
15
0
18
0.38
87
2.18
6.90%
3
Alex Biega
D
35
3
11
14
4
14
0.40
63
1.80
4.76%
36
Wacey Hamilton
C
31
4
9
13
4
25
0.42
42
1.35
9.52%
25
Darren Archibald
LW
36
6
6
12
6
57
0.33
65
1.81
9.23%
15
Ronalds Kenins
LW
36
5
7
12
6
23
0.33
61
1.69
8.20%
41
Will Acton
C
23
4
4
8
-4
11
0.35
34
1.48
11.76%
8
Alex Friesen
C
26
4
6
10
10
29
0.38
41
1.58
9.76%
4
Kane Lafranchise
D
22
2
7
9
3
4
0.41
30
1.36
6.67%
26
Frank Corrado
D
21
4
4
8
3
17
0.38
50
2.38
8.00%
37
Andrey Pedan
D
21
0
5
5
-3
42
0.24
39
1.86
0.00%
34
Carter Bancks
RW
31
4
2
6
5
26
0.19
43
1.39
9.30%
40
Peter Andersson
D
26
2
2
4
6
18
0.15
34
1.31
5.88%
2
Travis Ehrhardt
D
23
1
3
4
2
18
0.17
21
0.91
4.76%
14
Mike Zalewski
LW
21
1
2
3
-2
4
0.14
22
1.05
4.55%
29
Kent Huskins
D
17
1
0
1
-3
2
0.06
9
0.53
11.11%
11
John Negrin
D
16
0
1
1
3
0
0.06
14
0.88
0.00%
27
Tom Sestito
LW
8
0
0
0
0
20
0.00
7
0.88
0.00%

Goaltenders

NameGPMinGASOGAAWLOTSASVSSv%
1
Jacob Markstrom
18
1061:31:00
34
4
1.92
12
4
2
513
479
0.934
2
Joe Cannata
1
59:00:00
2
0
2.03
0
1
0
24
22
0.917
3
Joacim Eriksson
23
1367:26:00
55
0
2.41
12
6
4
639
584
0.914

Transactions

  • Ronalds Kenins has been recalled to Vancouver with Derek Dorsett injured.  This was a bit of a surprise as many expected Nicklas Jensen to be recalled.  Kenins is on the 2nd year of his 2-year Entry Level Contract and it is likely the Canucks want to evaluate Kenins to decide if they wish to re-sign him.

Schedule

Toronto is a terrible team, they are 2nd worst in the league in possession and the Comets have had success playing with them.  Hopefully this weeks schedule will see the Comets score again.

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