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TOR 2 at GR 3 - OT

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Toronto: R. Tverberg (2) (J. Quillan, W. Villeneuve), J. Quillan (2) SH (H. Thrun)
Goaltender: J. Woll (25/28) OT/L

Grand Rapids: S. Dries (4) (A. Watson), A. Watson (4) PP (A. Lombardi, E. Gustafsson), A. Lombardi (1) (C. Gylander)
Goaltender: C. Gylander (34/36) W      

ON THE SCORESHEET

• Ryan Tverberg put the Marlies on theboard at 5:41 of the second period. He has five points (2 goals, 3 assists) in 10 games this season.
• Jacob Quillan scored shorthanded at 6:4 of the second period and earlier added the primary assist on Tverberg’s goal. This was his second career AHL shorthanded goal. He has 14 points (2 goals, 12 assists) in 13 games this season.
• William Villeneuve recorded the secondary assist on Tverberg’s second period goal. He has eight points (1 goal, 7 assists) in 13 games this season.
• Henry Thrun had the lone assist on Quillan’s second period goal. He has eight points (3 goals, 5 assists) this season – all recorded in seven of his last eight games.
• Joseph Woll stopped 25 of 28 shots he faced.

TEAM NOTES

• Toronto recorded the club’s first shorthanded goal of the season with Jacob Quillan’s goal in the second period.
• The Marlies went 4-for-5 on the penalty kill and 0-for-4 on the power play. Toronto is 3-4-1-0 when not scoring on the power play and 2-3-1-1 when not allowing a goal on the penalty kill.
• Toronto outshot Grand Rapids 36-28. William Villeneuve led the Marlies with six shots on goal. Toronto is 3-3-1-0 when outshooting their opponent.
• The Marlies are 1-1-1-0 against Central Division opponents and are 0-0-1-0 against the Griffins.  
• 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.

POSTGAME QUOTES

HEAD COACH JOHN GRUDEN

On playing a complete 60-minute game:

Teams that win, it isn’t by accident. It’s because they do things right all the time. They’re usually heavy on the forecheck, they’re usually good with their decision making and spend as little time in the D-zone as you possibly can where you’re physical and close in quick so we can go and play in the O-zone. There was a lot of good after the first, but it was a tough way to start especially when you’re playing a good team like that. You’ve got to let (the opponent) know right away in the first period that they’re in for a long game. We’ll have more energy on Friday and we just have to make sure we have a better first period.

TOR 2 at LV 3

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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        

ON THE SCORESHEET

• Borya Valis opened the scoring at 18:02of 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 50^th 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) in10 games this season.
• Vinni Lettieri picked up the secondary assist on Groulx’s third period goal. This was his 150^th 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 2-1-0-0against 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.

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.

TOR 5 at HER 2

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Toronto: H. Thrun (3) (C. Paré, T.Boyd), T. Boyd (6) (Unassisted), R. Johnson (2) (T. Boyd, H. Thrun), M.Barbolini (1) (N. Chadwick, R. Tverberg), T. Boyd (7) EN (E. Cowan, W.Villeneuve)
Goaltender: A. Akhtyamov (17/19) W

Hershey: M. Strome (3) (S. Bitten, D. Smith), S. Bitten (1) (C.Schueneman, M. Strome)
Goaltender: G. Bjorklund (24/28) L        

ON THE SCORESHEET

• Henry Thrun put the Marlies on the board at 7:39 of the first period and later added the secondary assist on Johnson’s second period goal. He has six points (3 goals, 3 assists) this season – all recorded in five of his last six games.
• Travis Boyd scored unassisted at 6:19 of the second period and added the empty net goal at 18:23 of the third period. He also had the secondary assist on Thrun’s first period goal and the primary assist on Johnson’s second period goal. This was his fourth career AHL game recording four points in a single game. Boyd has 11 points (7 goals, 4 assists) in nine games this season.
• Reese Johnson scored his first career AHL game-winning goal at 17:26 of the second period. He has three points (2 goals, 1 assist) in six games.
• Matthew Barbolini scored at 15:52 of the third period. This was his first goal of the season.
• Cédric Paré recorded the primary assist on Thrun’s first period goal. He has three points (1 goal, 2 assists) in eight games this season.
• Noah Chadwick had the primary assist on Barbolini’s third period goal. This was his second assist in 10 games.
• Ryan Tverberg registered the secondary assist on Barbolini’s third period goal. He has four points (1 goal, 3 assists) in eight games this season.
• Easton Cowan picked up the primary assist on Boyd’s empty net third period goal. This is his first point with the Marlies.
• William Villeneuve recorded the secondary assist on Boyd’s third period goal. He has seven points (1 goal, 6 assists) in 11 games this season.
• Artur Akhtyamov stopped 17 of 19 shots he faced for his third consecutive win.

TEAM NOTES

• The Marlies went 2-for-2on the penalty kill and 0-for-3 on the power play. Toronto is 3-3-0-0 when not scoring on the power play and 4-1-0-0 when not allowing a goal on the penalty kill.
• Toronto outshot Hershey 29-19. Travis Boyd, Reese Johnson, Vinni Lettieri, Alex Nylander, Blake Smith and Borya Valis led the Marlies with three shots on goal. Toronto is 3-3-0-0 when outshooting their opponent.
• The Marlies are 2-0-0-0against Atlantic Division opponents and are 1-0-0-0 against the Bears.  
• 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.

POSTGAME QUOTES

HEAD COACH JOHN GRUDEN

On tonight’s game:
Other than the first 20 seconds, I thought it was a really good effort from our group. We controlled most of the game, thought we rolled four lines, six D and got big saves. We didn’t give them much but at the end of the day, it was probably one of our best efforts for the whole game of the season.

On Toronto’s three consecutive wins:

There’s always moments in a season. The third period obviously started that for us against Wilkes and we ended up winning a big game. (The team) just carried it over and that’s what good teams do. You’ve got to stop things when they’re really bad but you also need to take advantage of things when they’re going. We’re trying to build an identity of we’re going to be tough to beat, we’re going to be consistent, we’re going to play a complete game and if teams are going to beat us, they’re going to have to earn it. So, I liked our game. It’s just one. We’ve got to do it again tomorrow but I really liked our effort.

TRAVIS BOYD (2 GOALS, 2 ASSISTS)

On Toronto’s three consecutive wins:

Started in that third period on Wednesday night in Wilkes-Barre, kind of flipped the switch. Completely different team. We’re playing fast here. We’re spending so much time in the o-zone. I think we’re a hard team to play against. We’re a very fast team. We’re very good in the offensive zone which you saw tonight. I think we did a really good job of really just putting pressure on Hershey all night and obviously it turned out in a good way for us.

On Easton Cowan:
I thought he was really good tonight, really good. He can move. He’s good with the puck. He sees the ice. Certainly was very happy that he was on the line tonight with Shawzy and I. Really looking forward to continuing to play with him and to build even more chemistry.

TOR 4 at WBS 3 - OT

Toronto battled back on Wednesday night with four unanswered goals, including the decisive marker in overtime from Travis Boyd, to complete the comeback against Wilkes-Barre/Scranton in their first matchup of the season.

Toronto: B. Valis (5) (R. Tverberg, M. Barbolini), L. Shaw (3) (T. Boyd,W. Villeneuve), B. Groulx (3) (J. Quillan, C. Sharpe), T. Boyd (5) (J. Quillan)
Goaltender: A. Akhtyamov (26/29) W

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton: T. Broz (5) (A. McDonough, P. Kemp), A. Calvert(5) (D. Laatsch, F. Harding), B. Imama (1) (F. Harding, N. Renwick)
Goaltender: F. Larsson (19/23) OT/L    

ON THE SCORESHEET

• Borya Valis put the Marlies on the board at 1:57 of the third period. He has seven points (5 goals, 2 assists) in 10 games this season.
• Logan Shaw scored at 10:38 of the third period. He has five points (3 goals, 2 assists) in 10 games this season.
• Bo Groulx scored at 12:54 of the third period. He has six points (3 goals, 3 assists) in 10 games this season.
• Travis Boyd scored at 4:18 of overtime and earlier registered the primary assist on Shaw’s third period goal. This was Boyd’s third career AHL overtime goal and his 10^th career game-winning goal.
• Ryan Tverberg recorded the primary assist on Valis’ third period goal. He has three points (1 goal, 2 assists) in seven games this season.
• Matthew Barbolini had the secondary assist on Valis’ third period goal. He has four assists in seven games.
• William Villeneuve picked up the secondary assist on Shaw’s third period goal. He has six points (1 goal, 5 assists) in 10 games this season.
• Jacob Quillan recorded the primary assist on Groulx’s third period goal and the lone assist on Boyd’s overtime goal. This was his third multi-assist game of the season. He has 11 points (1 goal, 10 assists) in 10 games this season.
• Chas Sharpe had the secondary assist on Groulx’s third period goal. This was his first professional assist. He has two points (1 goal, 1 assist) in six games this season.
• Artur Akhtyamov stopped 26 of 29 shot she faced. He is 3-2-0-0 this season with a 2.98 goals against average and a 0.894 save percentage. This was his first overtime win of the season.

TEAM NOTES

• The Marlies went 1-for-1 on the penalty kill and 0-for-3 on the power play. Toronto is 2-3-0-0 when not scoring on the power play and 3-1-0-0 when not allowing a goal on the penalty kill.
• Wilkes-Barre/Scranton outshot Toronto 29-23. Travis Boyd and Vinni Lettieri led the Marlies with three shots on goal. Toronto is 4-3-0-0 when outshot by their opponent.
• The Marlies are 1-0-0-0against Atlantic Division opponents and are 1-0-0-0 against the Penguins.  
• 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.

POSTGAME QUOTES

HEAD COACH JOHN GRUDEN

On tonight’s game:
Obviously, no one liked our first 40 but for them to come out and execute the way they did that can really pull a team together at the end of the day, it can really build some momentum and it’s really good for the morale. Proud of the way we did it, it felt really good. Artie made some big saves there in overtime. It feels good, I’m not going to lie and the credit goes to our players who figured it out and came out and played extremely well in the last 20 minutes.

BO GROULX (1 GOAL)

On Artur Akhtyamov:

He was unreal the whole game. He made some really good saves at some key moments. Hats off to him. If he wasn’t or he didn’t make those saves at those moments, we’d be walking out of here with a loss. He’s been good. He’s been really good. You can see in practice, he’s battling. He’s battling every single day and it’s nice to see it getting paid off.

On what the team can learn from the comeback:
It’s really, really good for the team confidence, chemistry to come back from a 3-0 deficit especially in the third period. We can learn from those moments, from what we did wrong and what we did right. And I think today we’ve got to focus on the positives especially in the third period. The vibes were really high (at the end of the game) and I thought they were pretty high after the second even though we were down three-nothing. That’s what I like about this team, we’re never out of the fight. That’s what great teams are built with, discipline to stick with the game plan and a lot of character. I think we showed that tonight.

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