Utica Comets vs Manchester Monarchs (Verizon Wireless Arena)
Game Time: 5:00 PM Eastern, 2:00 PM Pacific
Web: AHLLive.com
Projected Lineups:
Manchester Monarchs
Mersch-Weal-O’Neill
Kempe-Shore-O’Brien
Van der Gulik-Dowd-Backman
Bissonnette-Crescenzi-Auger
Bodnarchuk-LoVerde
Gravel-Miller
Forbort-Raine
Berube
Injured: Schultz; Scratched: Ebert, Horvat, Gratton
Utica Comets:
Conacher-O’Reilly-Grenier
Baertschi-Friesen-Virtanen
Gaunce-Hamilton-Zalewski
Shinkaruk-Acton-DeFazio
Corrado-Biega
Andersson-Sanguinetti
Huskins-Clendening
Markstrom
Game Notes:
- Sven Baertschi left Saturday’s contest with an injury, but he’s taking warmups today…
Sven Baertschi will take warm ups and is expecting to play this afternoon. Game 2 at 5 PM EDT/ 2PM PDT #Comets
— Brendan Burke (@brendanmburke) June 7, 2015
- … Jeff Schultz, however, is not so lucky. Kevin Raine (two games in the Calder Cup playoffs) gets the nod over Nick Ebert (zero), while Kevin Gravel swaps sides to play on the second pair.
- No other lineup changes are expected.
- This amused me, though it’s about the Stanley Cup Final:
The team that won Game 1 has won the Cup 58 of 75 times. The team that won Game 2 has won the Cup 56 of 75 times. SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE.
— Mark Lazerus (@MarkLazerus) June 7, 2015
Winning Game One was a really big deal for the Monarchs. Winning Game Two? Also a big deal. (It’s the same phenomenon when it comes to scoring first and scoring second, they’re both really, really important.) So why not double down and win this?
- The Monarchs thoroughly outplayed the Comets yesterday; do it again, and they should be halfway to their first Calder Cup.