Laval, Quebec) – The Rochester People’ (7-3-0-0) quest for a sixth straight victory got here to a halt as they dropped a 5-2 resolution to the Laval Rocket (6-4-0-0) in Saturday’s rematch between the North Division rivals Saturday afternoon at Place Bell.
Regardless of the defeat, the Amerks have received six of the final eight video games, which features a pair of victories over the Rocket. The 2 groups cut up the weekend sequence north of the border following Friday’s 2-1 final result for Rochester.
Forwards Noah Östlund and Viktor Neuchev scored their second and third targets of the season, respectively, for the Amerks, who allowed 5 targets for the primary time in 17 video games. Zac Jones added to his league-leading help whole (12) as helped set-up each Rochester targets whereas Vsevolod Komarov and Jake Leschyshyn recorded one apiece.
Goaltender Alexandar Georgiev (0-2-0) made his second look of the season with Rochester, stopping 29 of 33 photographs he confronted.
Laval’s Laurent Dauphin (4+0) grew to become the primary Rochester opponent to document 4 targets in opposition to the Amerks since Utica’s A.J. Greer did so again on Feb. 18, 2022. The four-goal outing was a career-high for Dauphin, who now has two profession hat methods in opposition to Rochester and 4 general. Joshua Roy (0+2) notched a pair of assists whereas netminder Jacob Fowler improved to 4-2-0 as he made a season-best 36 saves.
FIRST PERIOD
On the opening shift of the matinee and the puck simply outdoors the Amerks zone, Laval’s William Trudeau grabbed it and skated down the left wing. Because the defenseman reached the highest of the close to face-off dot, he centered a go for Dauphin to snipe a shot over Georgiev to provide the Rocket a fast 1-0 lead simply 59 seconds into the competition.
Because the body continued, Rochester had a fantastic likelihood to tie the sport as Östlund had a breakaway alternative, however his backhand try sailed overtop the web.
Shortly after a media timeout, Komarov managed the puck behind his personal web earlier than deciding to start the play. The rugged blueliner pushed it to his proper for Jones, who caught the go on his backhand. The latter slid a go via the impartial zone for Neuchev, who after weaving throughout the blueline, fired a long-range shot that caught Fowler unexpectedly to knot the rating with slightly below seven minutes to play.
The 2 golf equipment, who mixed for 23 photographs and eight penalty minutes through the opening body, went into the break tied at 1-1.
SECOND PERIOD
On Laval’s second power-play likelihood of the day, the house utilized the additional skater, biking the puck across the outdoors of Amerks defenders. It wasn’t till Sean Farrell gave Alex Belzile a feed from atop the purpose earlier than the veteran ahead dished a nifty no-look, backdoor feed for Dauphin to steer previous Georgiev’s left arm on the 4:01 mark.
The Amerks drew the sport’s subsequent three penalties however have been unable to capitalize on any of the man-up alternatives earlier than they have been known as for their very own infraction with underneath 4 minutes left within the body.
Whereas on the power-play, it was almost a carbon copy because the one to start out the interval as Dauphin completed off his hat trick from inside the proper dot as Roy and Adam Engström each logged the helpers.
THIRD PERIOD
The penalties started to pile up within the ultimate body with each groups buying and selling power-play targets, starting with Jared Davidson blasting a one-timer on the 10:20 mark earlier than Östlund introduced Rochester inside a pair as he did the identical 5 minutes later.
Rochester confronted a 4-2 deficit in ultimate two minutes of regulation earlier than Dauphin sealed the scoring as Georgiev was pulled for an additional attacker.
