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Tonight’s Previews
Game 5 – 8:00 ET, AHL Live (OKC leads series, 3-1)
The first ticket to the 2013 conference finals can be punched tonight as Oklahoma City is one win away from ousting the Western Conference’s top seed… Five third-period goals last night propelled the Barons to a 7-3 win over Texas and a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven series… Antti Tyrvainen (2-1-3) scored twice in the third period — his first two goals in exactly three months (Feb. 15) — tying the game at 3-3 with 13:08 remaining and tacking on an empty-netter that made it 6-3 with 1:24 to play… Two of Tyrvainen’s three goals during the regular season also came vs. Texas… Mark Arcobello (8-4-12) scored two goals in Game 4 as well, taking over the AHL playoff lead with eight postseason goals and extending his point-scoring streak to four games… Arcobello has scored in each of the first four games of the series… Taylor Fedun (1-1-2) scored the game-winner with 5:36 left, his first career postseason goal… C.J. Stretch (3-4-7) had a goal and an assist for the Barons and Brandon Davidson (0-3-3), Tyler Pitlick (2-4-6) and Philippe Cornet (1-5-6) all picked up two assists… Fifteen different Barons recorded at least one point in the game including Yann Danis, who was credited with an assist along with his 26 saves (6-3, 2.32, .931)… Randy Jones (1-3-4), who won a Calder Cup with Philadelphia in 2005, was a plus-3 for Oklahoma City in Game 4 and owns a league-best plus-13 rating for the postseason… Brett Ritchie (2-0-2), Colton Sceviour (1-3-4) and Joe Morrow (2-1-3) were the goal scorers for Texas, which has netted just 13 goals in eight playoff games… Cristopher Nilstorp (4-4, 1.97, .932) made 39 saves but allowed six goals in a game for just the second time all season; the first was also to Oklahoma City, in a 6-4 loss on Nov. 21… Seventeen teams in AHL history have come back from 3-1 down to win a best-of-seven playoff series, most recently Binghamton (vs. Manchester) and Manitoba (vs. Lake Erie) in the first round of the 2011 postseason.
Western Conference Semifinal – Series “K” (best-of-7)
1-Texas Stars vs. 5-Oklahoma City Barons
Game 1 – Thu., May 9 – Oklahoma City 2, TEXAS 1 (OT)
Game 2 – Sat., May 11 – TEXAS 2, Oklahoma City 1
Game 3 – Mon., May 13 – OKLAHOMA CITY 4, Texas 0
Game 4 – Wed., May 15 – OKLAHOMA CITY 7, Texas 3
Game 5 – Thu., May 16 – Texas at Oklahoma City, 8:00
*Game 6 – Mon., May 20 – Oklahoma City at Texas, 8:30
*Game 7 – Tue., May 21 – Oklahoma City at Texas, 8:30
*if necessary… All times Eastern
About Last Night…
Oklahoma City’s five goals in the third period last night were the most in a single AHL playoff frame since Hershey scored six times in the second period (at Bridgeport) and Hamilton scored five in the second period (vs. Manitoba), both on Apr. 17, 2010… In the other Western Conference semifinal series, Toronto rallied from 2-0 and 3-1 deficits to tie the game at 3-3, but the Marlies were never able to take the lead and Grand Rapids held on for a 5-4 win to take a two-games-to-one lead in their best-of-seven… Over in the East, Carter Camper scored 31 seconds into overtime to give Providence a 2-1 win in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton and a 3-0 series lead… Syracuse improved its postseason record to 6-0 and closed in on its second consecutive series sweep with a 3-0 win over Springfield in Game 3, as Ondrej Palat notched a goal and two assists and Cedrick Desjardins made 24 saves… In the Stanley Cup Playoffs, 2005 Calder Cup champion Patrick Sharp tallied a goal and two assists and was named the game’s first star as Chicago defeated Detroit, 4-1, in Game 1 of their second-round series.
Playoff Streakers
Providence’s Carter Camper (seven games), Syracuse’s Tyler Johnson (six) and Ondrej Palat (six), and Oklahoma City’s Mark Arcobello (six) all extended their scoring streaks last night. Here are the longest postseason scoring streaks since 2006:
14 – Darren Haydar, Milwaukee (2006)
13 – Alexandre Giroux, Hershey (2009)
13 – Jason Krog, Chicago (2008)
12 – Keith Aucoin, Hershey (2010)
12 – Darren Haydar, Chicago (2008)
12 – Zenon Konopka, Portland (2006)
11 – Jason Krog, Chicago (2007)
10 – Bud Holloway, Manchester (2010)
10 – Alexandre Giroux, Hartford (2006)
10 – P.A. Parenteau, Portland (2006)
9 – David Desharnais, Hamilton (2010)
9 – Tomas Fleischmann, Hershey (2006)
9 – Kris Beech, Hershey (2006)
Working Overtime
There have been 12 overtime games played in the 2013 Calder Cup Playoffs so far… Road teams are 9-3:
Apr. 26 – Texas 3, MILWAUKEE 2 (Brett Ritchie, 11:44)
Apr. 26 – Charlotte 4, OKLAHOMA CITY 3 (Brody Sutter, 3:06)
Apr. 27 – SPRINGFIELD 2, Manchester 1 (Cody Bass, 10:36)
Apr. 27 – W-B/Scranton 3, BINGHAMTON 2 (Chad Kolarik, 8:18)
Apr. 27 – SYRACUSE 4, Portland 3 (Richard Panik, 6:36)
Apr. 28 – Hershey 5, PROVIDENCE 4 (Jon DiSalvatore, 3:05)
Apr. 28 – SPRINGFIELD 3, Manchester 2 (Cody Bass, 18:44)
*May 1 – Toronto 3, ROCHESTER 2 (Will Acton, 5:14)
*May 2 – Syracuse 4, PORTLAND 3 (Ondrej Palat, 19:43)
*May 4 – Springfield 4, MANCHESTER 3 (Nick Drazenovic, 8:06)
May 9 – Oklahoma City 2, TEXAS 1 (Anton Lander, 1:28)
May 15 – Providence 2, W-B/SCRANTON 1 (Carter Camper, 0:31)
Sudden Death
Carter Camper‘s game-winner for Providence last night was the 12th goal scored in the opening minute of a playoff overtime since 2001… Wilkes-Barre/Scranton has now been involved in six of those 12 games:
May 15, 2013 – Carter Camper, Providence at W-B/Scranton (:31)
May 6, 2012 – Ben Maxwell, St. John’s at W-B/Scranton (:27)
May 14, 2010 – Brock Trotter, Hamilton vs. Texas (:14)
May 23, 2008 – Connor James, W-B/Scranton vs. Portland (:20)
Apr. 23, 2008 – Alexandre Giroux, Hershey vs. W-B/Scranton (:20)
Apr. 21, 2008 – Martins Karsums, Providence at Manchester (:46)
Apr. 18, 2008 – Joakim Lindstrom, Syracuse vs. Manitoba (:30)
May 9, 2007 – Kurtis McLean, W-B/Scranton vs. Hershey (:35)
Apr. 19, 2007 – Shane Willis, Albany at Hershey (:10)
May 25, 2004 – Shane Endicott, W-B/Scranton at Hartford (:32)
May 2, 2004 – Jozef Balej, Hartford at Worcester (:12)
Apr. 16, 2004 – Derek MacKenzie, Chicago at Grand Rapids (:58)
AHL Live
Don’t miss a second on the road to the 2013 Calder Cup championship. AHL Live brings AHL action to your computer all season long with live video webcasts and highlights of every AHL game, as well as behind-the-scenes features and interviews in the Video On Demand section… Visit ahllive.com for details.
