Game 6:
Calgary Chinook 2 Capeside Loons 4
Chinook Can’t Stop Laine in 4-2 Loss to Loons
CAPESIDE - The Chinook managed to win four of their first five games this season, but their lack of finish with the man advantage came back to bite them today in a 4-2 loss to the Capeside Loons. After cutting a two-goal deficit in half with an early goal in the third period from Ryan O’Reilly, Loons’s forward Travis Zajac spoiled the comeback by scoring a power play goal in the middle of the third period. The Chinook failed to convert, and the Loons - more specifically Patrik Laine - provided three assists for the Loons today.
"You can tell they've been playing together for a long time now," said Chinook defenseman John Carlson. "They're gelling really well. They complement each other. Patrik Laine is one of the best players at both sides of the ice. They're deadly with the power play. They move the puck well and know where the other person is. They made some nice plays. Laine made us pay today."
It was a good test for the Chinook, perhaps their toughest all season, as the Capeside Loons (like the Chinook) came in with a 4-1-0 mark. Despite the loss, the Chinook showed good fight throughout the game and stayed true to their game plan despite falling behind by two goals.
Game 7:
Calgary Chinook 3 Dartmouth Lakers 5
Chinook losing skid continues in Dartmouth
DARTMOUTH - After Monday’s 5-3 thumping from the Dartmouth Lakers, the Chinook
are now winless in 2 games. "We just could not hold on to the lead.” said Ryan O’Reilly.
Chinook limp home from road trip after loss in Dartmouth. “We didn’t play hard
enough,” seethed Chinook head coach Eugene Yip after Monday’s shellacking. “Until
we start to play hard, and play hard for 60 minutes, it’s going to be up in the air all night
long or you’re going to get blown out. We’ve got to develop a little bit of a work ethic
here. “We’re disappointed the way we’ve played. We haven’t played hard enough. We’re well
aware we haven’t played hard enough and we haven’t played hard enough on a
consistent basis.” The Calgary Chinook was leading 3-2 after the first period. It was all Dartmouth Lakers from then on. Andreas Athanasiou scored his 2nd of the season to tie the game at 3.
In the third period, it was Nurse who scored the game winning goal and Athanasiou scored his second goal of the night to seal the deal for the Lakers. Lakers’ goaltender Jack Campbell was great making 37 saves. “If you make mistakes against a team like that, they’re going to punish you. And that’s
what they did,” Letang said. “We have moments where we’re really good, but we haven’t really found our game for 60 minutes yet.”
Game 8:
Dartmouth Lakers 0 Calgary Chinook 7
Panarin’s 4 goals powers Chinook in win against Lakers
CALGARY - - Aretemi Panarin scored three goals in 5:55 in the first period for his first
hat trick of the season, and Carey Price made 24 saves for the Calgary Chinook in a 7-0
win against the Dartmouth Lakers in front of a sellout crowd of 19,289 at Scotiabank
Saddledome on Wednesday.
"Of course, I didn't expect this before the game," Panarin said."Obviously, nice to
score. After (the third goal) the feeling kind of felt unreal. It's kind of hard to explain. I
was really happy after the first goal, and then the second goal, and all of a sudden the
third goal, I was like, "What's going on?"
Cam Talbot was replaced by Jack Campbell after allowing four goals on twelve shots for
Dartsmouth, Campbell made 30 saves. "I can't worry about what's going on in front of me," Talbot said. "I've got to find a way to make a save and I couldn't do that. The game before, we set the bar, for sure, with a big win at home (5-3 against the same team) and needed it. The roles were reversed today, and I didn't give our team the goaltending we needed."
Panarin scored his fourth goal of the night in the third period to make it 7-0.
"It's great. Panarin and Price led the way today," Gaudreau said. "He got off to a [heck]
of a start, and you could see the jump he had early. Just the touch around the net he
had was tremendous; all three went five-hole. It was great to see his contributions
today."
Game 9:
Calgary Chinook 2 Seattle Reign 3
Chinook missed opportunity in humbling 3-2 loss to the Reign
SEATTLE - The Chinooks' could not build on the 7-0 win from last game, marred by
missed opportunities and lack of production in power play.
Kyle Conner’s two quick goals gave Seattle the victory, Johnny Hockey scored a minute
after, but it was too late for the Chinook to make a comeback.
"Missed opportunity," Chinook coach Eugene Yip said. "They seemed to play with a lot
of urgency tonight. They didn't allow us to get the space. As a result, we didn't seem to
win as many races as we did last game. Some of that is on us."
"Yeah, we need to do better. We can't play like that," Giordano said. "We can control the
mistakes that are made."
Despite being handed six power-play opportunities, Calgary's lone power-play goal
came 14:30 into the second period when Letang capitalized on an interference penalty
called on Reign’ Jakob Chychrun.
Price was far busier this game. He managed to stop 33 shots but didn't get much help
from a defense that allowed the Reign to pile up a 36-27 advantage in shots.
"They were the better team," Price said. "You got to play like you have a chance to win.
You've got to simplify things and they were just hard on us so we couldn't get any room
and were off our game."
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