Toronto: B. Valis (6) (J. Quillan, H. Thrun), B. Groulx (4) (A. Nylander, V. Lettieri)
Goaltender: J. Woll (21/24) L, V. Peksa (12/12)
Lehigh Valley: D. Kaplan (3) (A. Richard, C Kyrou), L. Pederson (5) (A. Bump, T. Murchison), A. Gendron (2) (L. Pederson, C. Kyrou)
Goaltender: A. Kolosov (22/24) W
- Borya Valis opened the scoring at 18:02 of the first period. He is tied for the league lead in goals (6) by a rookie.
- Bo Groulx scored at 13:17 of the third period. He has seven points (4 goals, 3 assists) in 12 games this season.
- Jacob Quillan recorded the primary assist on Valis’ first period goal. This was his 50th career AHL point.
- Henry Thrun had the secondary assist on Valis’ first period goal. He has seven points (3 goals, 4 assists) this season – all recorded in six of his last seven games.
- Alex Nylander registered the primary assist on Groulx’s third period goal. He has 10 points (5 goals, 5 assists) in 10 games this season.
- Vinni Lettieri picked up the secondary assist on Groulx’s third period goal. This was his 150th career AHL assist.
- Joseph Woll stopped 21 of 24 shots he faced. Vyacheslav Peksa entered the game at the end of the second period and stopped all 12 shots he faced in his first appearance of the season.
| TEAM NOTES The Marlies went 5-for-5 on the penalty kill and 0-for-2 on the power play. Toronto is 3-4-0-0 when not scoring on the power play 4-2-0-0 when not allowing a goal on the penalty kill.Lehigh Valley outshot Toronto 36-24. Cédric Paré led the Marlies with four shots on goal. Toronto is 3-2-0-0 when outshot by their opponent.The Marlies are 2-1-0-0 against Atlantic Division opponents and are 0-1-0-0 against the Phantoms. Toronto is now on their annual road trip as the Royal Winter Fair takes place at Coca-Cola Coliseum. The club will play eight games on the road before returning home on Nov. 22 against Iowa. |
| RECORD WHEN Scoring first 3-2-0-1 Leading after 1st 1-2-0-1 Trailing after 2nd 2-5-0-0 On the road 4-3-0-0 November 3-2-0-0 Saturday 2-3-0-0 MARLIES LEADERS *Amongst active players Goals 7 (T. Boyd) Assists 11 (J. Quillan) Points 12 (J. Quillan) PPG 2 (T. Boyd) Shots 33 (B. Valis) +/- +5 (J. Quillan) PIMS 13 (M. Benning) |
POSTGAME QUOTES
HEAD COACH JOHN GRUDEN
On tonight’s game:
(Toronto) carried the play the first 10 minutes. Joe (Woll) made some big saves and then we scored a big goal there in the first period. We got some of that momentum back but then we had a really poor second period and a lot of the penalties took us out of that momentum. They played well but we gave them a lot and unfortunately, we didn’t have enough time in the third period to tie the game.
On Joseph Woll:
I thought he looked really good. He was only going to play 30 minutes so, good on him to stay out there for those PKs and he made some really big saves. We kind of broke down there on a transition play and gave up a two-on-one, basically a two-on-0. It would have been nice for him to get out of there but I thought he played extremely well. He made some big saves when he needed to. He’s a really good goalie and a great guy.
UPCOMING GAMES:
*All times Eastern Standard Time
November 12 at Grand Rapids – 11:00 a.m.
November 14 at Grand Rapids – 7:00 p.m.
November 19 at Belleville – 10:30 a.m.
November 22 vs. Iowa – 4:00 p.m.
November 23 vs. Iowa – 4:00 p.m.
