Dogs win over Cleveland

[Yeti]

Early game today. Hamilton won 4-2 over Cleveland. 2 games in 36 hours so Higgins and Gratton were not dressed.

Balej had a goal and 3 assists for 4 points.

Hainsey had a goal and one assist, same with Plekanec. Hossa one assist on an empty net goal.

Balej is coming around, isn't he?

Bulldogs point leaders:

Gratton: 30 points in 21 games.

Balej: 28 pts in 27 games.

Plekanec: 22 pts in 27 games.

Dagenais: 21 pts in 20 games.

Higgins: 13 points in 18 games.

Hainsey has 6 points in 6 games. It seems he is dominating over there.

[seventeen]

Here's the USAtoday summary and link (the formatting never seems to come out right)

www.usatoday.com/sports/scores103/103340/20031206AHL--CLEVELAND-0.htm

Hamilton 0 2 2 --4
Cleveland 1 0 1 --2
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FIRST PERIOD -- Scoring: 1, Cleveland, Jon Disalvatore 3 (Tavis Hansen, Garrett Stafford), 6:49. Penalties: A Perezhogin, Ham (tripping), 9:41; G Stevenson, Cle (roughing), 12:28; T Plekanec, Ham (tripping), 19:44.

SECOND PERIOD -- Scoring: 2, Hamilton, Tomas Plekanec 8 (Jozef Balej), 2:49. 3, Hamilton, Ron Hainsey 1 (power play) (Tomas Plekanec, Jozef Balej), 12:05. Penalties: A Perezhogin, Ham (interference), 3:34; M Zalesak, Cle (interference), 11:40.

THIRD PERIOD -- Scoring: 4, Hamilton, Jozef Balej 11 (Ron Hainsey, Jean-Philppe Cote), 5:32. 5, Cleveland, Ryane Clowe 6 (Pat Rissmiller), 5:43. 6, Hamilton, Alexander Svitov 4 (empty net) (Marcel Hossa, Jozef Balej), 19:00. Penalties: M Zalesak, Cle (roughing), 3:21; Y Moscevsky, Cle (roughing), 3:21; F Beauchemin, Ham (roughing), 3:21; A Svitov, Ham (tripping), 15:16.

Shots on goal:
Hamilton 9 8 10 --27
Cleveland 11 12 8 --31

Power-play Conversions: Hamilton - 1 of 3, Cleveland - 0 of 4. Goalies : Hamilton, Jean-Francois Damphousse (31 shots, 29 saves; record: 6-3-1). Cleveland, Dimitri Patzold (26 shots, 23 saves; record: 5-8-0). A: 2,344. Referees: Gordon Dwyer. Linesmen: David Brisebois, Steve Marofsky.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS
HAMILTON CLEVELAND
G A +/- Shots G A +/- Shots
E Somervuori 0 0 even 4 B Boyes 0 0 -1 4
A Svitov 1 0 +1 3 G Stafford 0 1 -1 1
J Olvestad 0 0 -2 1 J Fahey 0 0 -1 4
J Cote 0 1 -1 0 Y Moscevsky 0 0 even 0
K Dykhuis 0 0 even 2 L Loyns 0 0 -1 3
T Plekanec 1 1 +2 3 R Mulick 0 0 even 1
F Beauchemin 0 0 +2 1 P Rissmiller 0 1 -1 0
P Traverse 0 0 even 0 M Zalesak 0 0 -1 5
R Hainsey 1 1 +2 3 D Watson 0 0 +1 0
M Hossa 0 1 +2 1 T Hansen 0 1 even 3
J Balej 1 3 +3 3 G Stevenson 0 0 even 0
J Ferland 0 0 -2 2 M Carkner 0 0 even 4
P Plante 0 0 even 0 T Plihal 0 0 +1 1
A Perezhogin 0 0 -1 0 J DiSalvatore 1 0 even 4
A Archer 0 0 even 0 D Murray 0 0 -1 0
B Carpentier 0 0 -1 3 R Clowe 1 0 even 1
D Milroy 0 0 even 1 M Goc 0 0 -1 0

[turnbuckle]

Actually Yeti, your stats are a little too "updated." Balej has 24 points, not 28, Plekanec has 20 points, not 22, etc.

I'm surprised at how quickly they update the scoring stats on the AHL website; it's pretty much immediately updated right after a game.

The Habs' fortunes have certsinly changed in the past year with the development of ward and Ryder, drafting of Kastitsyn, and recent rebirth of Balej. Throw in Perezhogin, and and I'd say that right wing is now one of our more promising positions for the future.

[Yeti]

Thanks for the correction. I checked the score on USA today and there was a minute left in the third when I got the stats. USA today was probably late, but still, amazingly fast.

[FormerLurker]

turnbuckle said:

I'm surprised at how quickly they update the scoring stats on the AHL website; it's pretty much immediately updated right after a game.

It's because they're using Pointstreak.com's real-time scoring system this year.

[BadCompany]

And Hainsey is +5.

Kind of reminds me a little bit of when Markov was sent down, and ended up with like 10 points in 12 games, and was +14.

Be nice if we could get another Markov on the team, eh?