GameDay Thread: St. John’s IceCaps vs. Texas Stars, 7:30 CDT, Cedar Park Centre

2014 Calder Cup Finals – GAME 1
	vs
June 8, 2014
Cedar Park Centre, Cedar Park, TX
7:30 PM CDT
Where to Watch
Post-Season Statistics and Leaders
Reg: 48-18-3-7, Post: 11-5	W/L	Reg: 46-23-2-5, Post: 11-5
B. Ranford, D Jeffrey (7)	G	E. O`Dell (9)
T. Morin (11)	A	W. O`Neill (11)
M. Hedden (15)	PTS	A. Gordon (16)
C. Nilstorp 9-4	W/L	M. Hutchinson 11-5
C. Nilstorp (.914)	SV%	M. Hutchinson (.946)
C. Nilstorp (2.14)	GAA	M. Hutchinson (1.61)
Scratches
		R. Olsen, C. Lampl, JC Lipon, R. Schnell
		J. Melchiori, B. MacLean, A. Brassard
		E. Comrie, C. Hellebuyck
		J. Olkinuora, E. Pasquale
Projected Line-ups (Forwards)
McKenzie – Morin – Ranford	1st	Jaffray(15) – Albert(16) – Gordon(10)
Hedden – Dowling – Ritchie	2nd	Mouillierat(21) – O`Dell(14) – Klingberg(48)
Jeffrey – Mueller – Glennie	3rd	Lunden(42) – Lowry(47) – Samson(17)
Henderson – Faksa – Stransky	4th	Cormier(28) – MacKinnon(19) – Riley(25)
Projected Line-ups (Defencemen)
Gaunce – Oleksiak	1st	Chiarot(18) – Redmond(24)
Nemeth – Jokipakka	2nd	Hill(29) – Kichton(8)
Meech – Fortunus	3rd	Morrissey(6) – O`Neill(27)
Starting Goalies
Nilstorp	G	Hutchinson(33)
Also see: Defending Big D \| Story Stream

Extra, some statistics combining regular and post-season:

Forwards

#	Name	GP	G/GP	A/GP	P/GP	S/GP	Sh%
14	Eric O`Dell	58	0.45	0.47	0.91	2.79	16.0%
21	Kael Mouillierat	76	0.30	0.50	0.80	2.54	11.9%
10	Andrew Gordon	92	0.34	0.46	0.79	2.39	14.1%
17	Jerome Samson	80	0.38	0.41	0.79	3.03	12.4%
15	Jason Jaffray	91	0.24	0.52	0.76	1.91	12.6%
16	John Albert	79	0.37	0.28	0.65	2.32	15.8%
48	Carl Klingberg	81	0.30	0.28	0.58	2.73	10.9%
19	Kyle MacKinnon	87	0.16	0.33	0.49	1.48	10.9%
34	J.C. Lipon	86	0.10	0.38	0.49	1.56	6.7%
47	Adam Lowry	76	0.25	0.24	0.49	1.71	14.6%
28	Patrice Cormier	77	0.14	0.26	0.40	1.57	9.1%
42	Josh Lunden	31	0.23	0.13	0.35	1.65	13.7%
25	Blair Riley	87	0.09	0.20	0.29	1.03	8.9%

Defense

#	Name	GP	G/GP	A/GP	P/GP	S/GP	Sh%
24	Zach Redmond	56	0.14	0.50	0.64	2.96	4.8%
27	Will O`Neill	81	0.14	0.46	0.59	1.52	8.9%
8	Brenden Kichton	92	0.13	0.46	0.59	1.51	8.6%
6	Josh Morrissey	23	0.09	0.30	0.39	1.61	5.4%
18	Ben Chiarot	81	0.09	0.21	0.30	1.65	5.2%
29	Jordan Hill	82	0.00	0.16	0.16	1.07	0.0%
7	Kris Fredheim	57	0.02	0.09	0.11	0.98	1.8%

Honestly, in my opinion from watching (and the numbers), Melchiori deserves to be playing. He was injured for the last week of the regular season and for much of the start of the post season, so that may be a factor.

#	Name	GP	G/GP	A/GP	P/GP	S/GP	Sh%
44	Julian Melchiori	50	0.02	0.2	0.22	1.08	1.9%

Extra, some statistics combining regular and post-season:

Talking Points