Post by QC Mike on Apr 27, 2022 15:51:00 GMT -7
The tie started in the Quad Cities Qualcomm Quonset Hut with Chelsea's Alexander Ovechkin opening the scoring before a lot of home fans were in their seats, his snap shot off the rush beating Alexander Georgiev thirteen seconds into the game. The Daggers soon doubled their lead when K'Andre Millar coughed up the puck to Colin Miller, whose quick shot beat a startled and slightly out of position Georgiev. The game soon settled down into a chippy affair where Quad Cities were outshooting the visitors but the Daggers were out-chancing their hosts. The first period ending 2-0 for Chelsea. The second saw the Q-Men come out with some metal in their game. Joel Farabee beat Robin Lehner with a wrister at 3:36. Off the ensuing face-off Claude Giroux and Farabee worked the give and go with Giroux redirecting it past Lehner to even the score at two after four minutes. After the line change, Barclay Goodrow was caught by Zach Aston-Reese with a vicious hip check while trying to enter the zone. At 6:24 Nick Schmaltz was the recipient of Charlie McAvoy intercepting Nick Jensen's break out pass. His goal giving the Quarrymen the lead and gave the home town crowd something to cheer about. Any momentum and flow in the game was broken at the mid way point when officials called 4 separate penalties in less than three minutes, two apiece, that took the crowd out of it. Logan Couture evened the score at 13:36 and two minutes later Nic Ehlers gave the Daggers the lead. Later, Jonathon Marchessault coughed up the puck that saw Ivan Provorov on a straight breakaway but Lehner bailed out his teammate and saw the visitors go into the intermission up 4-3. Giroux evened the score two minutes into the third but Darren Helm restored Chelsea's lead off the ensuing face-off. The two teams then proceeded to trade chances but goaltending was the big difference. Lehner stopping all of the Q-Men's chances while Georgiev only stopped one of the four with Marchessault getting one and Nic Ehler getting two to complete the hat trick. Chelsea cruising to an 8-4 win.
Chelsea 8 (13 chances on 32 shots) vs Quad Cities 4 (11 on 36)
1. Ehlers (CHE)- 3G
2. Ovechkin (CHE)- 1G, 2A, 6 shots
3. Farabee (QCQ)- 1G, 2A
The follow up in Chelsea saw Cale Makar spring Jakub Silfverburg inside the first minute. Silfverburg's wrist shot beating Thomas Greiss stick side to take the West London crowd out their revels. The game turned into a fairly slow back and forth affair but a lengthy two man advantage late in the period for the Daggers had a chance to bring them back into it but they weren't able to generate anything off of it. Quad Cities escaped the the first with a 1-0 lead. The second started as a tightly checking affair when Ovechkin caught Nick Leddy with a hard hit on the fore-check. Barclay Goodrow then capitalized on Oliver Bjorkstrand's broken stick to get in close on Greiss and beat him with a backhander to the far side at 7:36. At the midway point of the frame Joel Farabee added to Quad cities' lead following a mix up on the Chelsea line change after Goodrow and Bjorkstrand threw down. The remainder of the period was a listless back and forth affair with neither side generating any sort of offense. Colin Miller dealing the Dagger's comeback hope a blow when he was called for Unsportsmanlike Conduct in the end of period scrum. Starting the third down a man, Chelsea caught a break when James van Riemsdyk misplayed the puck and Blake Lizotte went in on a short handed breakaway. Alexander Georgiev was able to stop the breakaway to preserve the shutout. The remainder of the period was a listless back and forth affair with neither side generating any chances and the only life in the building brought about when Kevin Fiala went after Zdeno Chara in a surprisingly even fight. Quad Cities squaring the series with the 3-0 win.
Quad Cities 3 (4 on 33) vs Chelsea 0 (2 on 26)
1. Georgiev (QCQ)- Shutout winner, 26 saves with 2 scoring chances
2. Silfverburg (QCQ)- 1G, game winning goal
3. Goodrow (QCQ)- 1G, 2 shots, 5PM
Quad Cities is now 6-7-1.