The Checkers are hoping to have defenseman Matt Kiersted again of their lineup quickly. Head coach Geordie Kinnear sounded an optimistic observe earlier than tonight’s Sport 1 in Laval.
Kiersted has missed Charlotte’s final 5 video games. Through the common season, the fourth-year professional recorded 29 factors and a league-best plus-34 score in 64 video games and was one of many foundational items of the Charlotte protection corps. He additionally appeared in two NHL video games with Florida.
“He regarded fairly good on the market,” Kinnear stated Monday at follow. “Yeah, we’re excited to have him again.”
Whereas the Checkers final performed every week in the past, the Rocket have a shorter turnaround time after going the space of their North Division Finals towards Rochester.
After ending the sequence with a 5-0 residence win on Sunday afternoon, the Rocket took Monday off and went proper again to work yesterday to prepared themselves for Charlotte.
Just like the Checkers, Laval has been coping with accidents on the again finish. Defenseman Tyler Wotherspoon missed the final two video games of the Rochester sequence; he had 18 factors and a plus-19 score whereas skating in all 72 video games in the course of the common season. Noel Hoefenmayer and Zack Hayes have stepped in to stabilize the Laval blue line.
― with information from Patrick Williams
