Toronto Marlies Close Out Weekend With Shootout Loss To Rochester Americans

The Toronto Marlies closed out their weekend with a 4-3 shootout loss to the Rochester Americans on Saturday night. The Marlies fall to 11-6-0-1 against North Division opponents and 3-2-0-1 for the month of December.  

In the first period, Toronto opened the scoring with a goal by Bobby McMann at 12:59 to give the home team an early 1-0 lead heading into the second.

Early in the second, Max Ellis scored on the power-play at 3:14 to extend Toronto’s lead to two. Shortly after, Rochester responded with two quick goals by Lukas Rousek and Brandon Brio to tie the game. Minutes later, Bobby McMann scored his third of the season at 10:36 to give the Marlies a 3-2 lead after 40 minutes of play. This marked McMann’s third career multigoal game. He currently has points (2-3-5) in his last four games.  

In the third period, Rochester made a late push with a goal by Sean Malone at 18:15 to tie the game at three apiece. However, the score remained tied after 60 minutes, so overtime was needed.

In the extra frame, neither team was able to score in OT so a shootout was needed.

In the shootout, Lukas Rousek scored the lone goal for the Americans, to secure the win for Rochester.  

The Marlies return to action on December 16th against the Rockford IceHogs. Puck drop is 8:00pm.

SCORING SUMMARY

Rochester: L. Rousek (6) (M. Jobst), B. Biro (L. Weissbach), S. Malone (8) (B. Biro)
Goaltender: M. Subban (23/26) W

Toronto: B. McMann (2) PP (S. Der-Arguchintsev, L. Shaw), M. Ellis (2) (J. Blandisi, N. Hoefenmayer), B. McMann (3) (L. Shaw, A. Steeves)
Goaltender: E. Källgren (34/37) SO/L

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ON THE SCORESHEET

• Bobby McMann opened the scoring on the power play at 12:59 of the first period and added a second goal at 10:36 of the second period. He has points (2-3-5) in his last four games. This was his third career multigoal game.
• Max Ellis scored on the power play at 3:14 of the second period. He has six points (2 goals, 4 assists) in 16 games this season.
• Semyon Der-Arguchintsev had the primary assist on McMann’s first period goal. He has 21 points (7 goals, 14 assists) in 22 games this season.
• Logan Shaw picked up the secondary assist on McMann’s first period goal and added the primary assist on McMann’s second period goal. He has points (2-7-9) in eight consecutive games. He is fourth overall in points (8-20-28) in the League.
• Joseph Blandisi recorded the primary assist on Ellis’ second period goal. He has points (2-1-3) in consecutive games. Blandisi has 10 points (5 goals, 5 assists) in 21 games this season.
• Noel Hoefenmayer had the secondary assist on Ellis’ second period goal. He has 19 points (5 goals, 14 assists) in 21 games this season.
• Alex Steeves registered the secondary assist on McMann’s second period goal. He has points (2-2-4) in consecutive games. He has 24 points (9 goals, 15 assists) through 24 games this season.
• Erik Källgren stopped 34 of 37 shots he faced.

IN THE SHOOTOUT

• Max Ellis – Stopped (2022-23: 0/1)
• Mikhail Abramov – Stopped (2022-23: 0/1)
• Logan Shaw – Stopped (2022-23: 0/1)

TEAM NOTES

• This was Toronto’s first shootout of the season.
• The Marlies went 4-for-4 on the penalty kill and 2-for-4 on the power play. Toronto is 13-6-1-1 when scoring on the power play and 8-3-0-1 when not allowing a goal on the penalty kill. Toronto has recorded a power play goal in each home game this season.
• Rochester had a 38-26 edge in shots in all situations. Bobby McMann led the Marlies with six shots on goal. Toronto is 6-4-1-1 when outshot by their opponent.
• The Marlies are 11-6-0-1 against North Division opponents and are 1-1-0-1 against the Rochester Americans. Rochester has outscored Toronto 9-8 through three games.

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POSTGAME QUOTE

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HEAD COACH GREG MOORE

On today’s game:
The starts in the first period have been a consistency of ours. I would say today’s first period wasn’t as strong as they normally are. It was tough getting off from the start having to kill one off. We’ve got a lot of guys that don’t see their first shift for awhile to start the game and it was just hard for all four lines to get into the flow and rhythm of it. I actually thought the second period we came out and started finding our game more. The fight from Hoefenmayer brought a lot of momentum and energy for us on the bench. Outside of the quick span of goals against, we started to see our game play come back. Much like we saw in the 60 minutes yesterday. At the end of the day, they still made it hard on us. They’re a fast team and we needed to do a better job of stalling them out and not giving up as many shots.

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UPCOMING GAMES:
*All times Eastern Standard Time

December 16 at Rockford – 7:00 p.m. (CST)
December 17 at Milwaukee – 6:00 p.m. (CST)
December 20 vs. WB/Scranton – 7:00 p.m.
December 26 vs. Belleville – 1:30 p.m. (Scotiabank Arena)
December 28 at Belleville – 7:00 p.m.