charlotte checkers v lehigh valley phantoms sofascore

This is Lehigh Valley’s last visit to North Carolina this season. The Phantoms and Checkers will rematch in Charlotte Sunday at 1:00 p.m. The Checkers are coming off a split this week in a pair of games against the Springfield Thunderbirds including a 4-2 win on Thursday.

The 5th place Charlotte Checkers (18-14-2). The Phantoms are 1-3-0 against Charlotte this year which includes a 5-3 win in their most recent meeting at Bojangles’ Coliseum. Lehigh Valley (11-12-8) has points in 11 of the last 12 at 8-1-3 and rates in 6th place in the Atlantic Division.

14 … Checkers scratches included forwards Anton Levtchi and Justin Sourdif, and defensemen Robert Calisti, Johnny Ludvig and Calle Sjalin.TONIGHT: It’s a Phantoms Gameday presented by MassMutual as the Lehigh Valley Phantoms travel south for the first of two against the Charlotte Checkers, AHL affiliate of the Florida Panthers and Seattle Kraken. They have given up three in a period four times, three of which have come in their last eight games … The Checkers have given up more than two power-play goals just twice this season – tonight and another game against the Phantoms exactly one week earlier … Checkers goaltender J-F Berube played for the first time since the first game of the season on Oct. The Phantoms’ seven power plays, all of which were in the first two periods, were the most by a Checkers opponent in any game this season … The five-goal loss marked the Checkers’ largest margin of defeat this season … The Checkers are now 4-6-2 on the road and 8-3-1 at home … The Checkers gave up three first-period goals for the first time this season. They play their next four games at home starting with a back-to-back set against Rochester on Dec.

The result gives the Checkers, who lost to the Phantoms and Hershey earlier in the week, their first three-game regulation losing streak since Feb. Things did not improve in the second period, with the Phantoms missing out on two additional power-play opportunities in the first four minutes, only to score once at even strength and then add their third power-play goal near the end of the frame.Īnisimov added his second goal of the game on a 2-on-0 break in the third to make it 6-0, with Nash avoiding the shutout with a power-play goal of his own shortly thereafter. Two of those came in the final five minutes of the first, with Anisimov and Tyson Foerster scoring man-advantage goals on either side of an even-strength tally by Kieffer Bellows.

SCORE SHEETPenalties were the story of this contest, with the Phantoms scoring three times on seven opportunities through the first two periods.

Charlotte checkers v lehigh valley phantoms sofascore