Game 10:
Niagara Falls Thunder 1 Calgary Chinook 4
Chinook Cruise to 4-1 win over Thunder
CALGARY - Matthew Tkachuk scored his 5th and 6th goal of the season to help the
Calgary Chinook to a 4-1 win against the Niagara Falls Thunder at Scotiabank
Saddledome on Sunday.
"I think the last two games he's been really, really good," Chinook coach Eugene Yip
said. "He's worn the rust off. He's stomping on pucks, the stuff that he's been working
on. “
David Pastrnak scored a goal and had an assist, and John Carlson had two assists for
the Chinook. Carey Price made 29 saves.
"I think I'm just getting to scoring areas and using my shot a little bit more than I usually
do," Tkachuk said. "Sometimes they go in in stretches so just stick with it. You're not
going to score every game so just play the same way and make sure I'm shooting the
puck when I get a chance."
Thunder’ Dylan Larkin had the lone goal. Petr Mrazek made 37 saves despite the loss.
"We want to be a real good defensive team and work from there," Thunder forward
Dylan Larkin said. "We're confident in our ability to put pucks in the net, but if you're
constantly chasing the game from two or three back you just can't do it every night."
“[Pastrnak] went in there in the middle for us and he had a great night," Yip said. "I
thought we snapped it around the last couple days in practice. A lot of good things on
the power play."
Game 11:
Calgary Chinook 5 Fort Erie Falcons 2
Price stops 38 shots in Chinook’ 5-2 win over Falcons
FORT ERIE - The Calgary Chinook liked the way they were playing at the start of the
season, even if pucks weren't going into the net. They were playing solid defense,
creating good chances, and figured the goals would come.
Now that they're scoring in bunches and, for the most part, playing lockdown defense,
the wins are piling up.
David Pastrnak had a goal and an assist, Carey Price stopped 38 shots and the surging
Chinook outlasted the Fort Erie Falcons 5-2 on Saturday night.
''We've been playing the way we wanted to play really since the start of the season,''
Pastrnak said.
The Chinook have the best goal differentials in the Corfield division so far this season
and have revved up their offense game after game.
Calvin de Haan opened the scoring with his first of the season and Nino Niederreiter
also scored his first in the first period. Mark Giordano added a goal in the first period for
a 3-0 lead.
The Chinook had some defensive lapses in the third period, but Price stopped all 18
shots in the third.
''They outplayed in the first period, didn't give us anything, we made some major
mistakes that end up in the net, and then you're playing catch-up hockey the rest of the
way, which is tough,'' Fort Erie forward Nathan MacKinnon said.
Aleksander Barkov was out until the end of the week for personal reasons.
Game 12:
Dayton Musicmen 0 Calgary Chinook 4
Price backstops Chinook to 4-0 shutout over Musicmen
CALGARY - Carey Price made 26 saves for his second shutout of the season, and the
Calgary Chinook defeated division rival Dayton Musician 4-0 at Scotiabank Saddledome
on Wednesday.
Mark Giordano and Ryan O’Reilly each have a goal and an assist in the game to give
the Chinook a three games winning steak.
"That was important," Price said. "We knew that we can't let off the throttle in this league
because you see the scores around the League, it doesn't take much lose the lead, so I
thought we did a good job of staying on the gas pedal."
Despite the loss for the Musicmen, Pekka Rinne made 35 saves for Dayton. “ Our
execution right now is nowhere near where it needs to be," Dayton coach Bill Corfield
said.
"We all knew that we could play better defensively, and I thought tonight we were
reloading and getting in the shot lanes and doing all the right things." Chinook goalie
Carey Price said.
Game 13
Fort Erie Falcons 4 Calgary Chinook 1
Falcons snap Chinook’ winning streak with a 4-1 victory
CALGARY - Darcy Kuemper made 20 saves, Alex Debrincat had a goal and an assist,
and the Falcons beat the red-hot Chinook 4-1 on Friday night.
"Tonight was our best performance by everybody in a long time,” Falcons forward
Marchand said. "There wasn't anything that was missing for us. And when we score four
goals, I like our odds."
"Our whole group looked tired tonight without a doubt," Chinook coach Eugene said.
“Falcons is a good team, you know they're going to come hard at you."
"They got some momentum and they're a good offensive team," Calgary captain Mark
Giordano said. "Once they get a little jump, they start bringing it.
"We'll take the positives and move on."
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