Johnstown Chiefs

They pretty much ran out of gas at the end of this west coast swing.

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LV-4

Johnstown was outshot a staggering 52-20 on the night. Jonathan Boutin stopped 48 shots for the loss. Johnstown finally will return home for a Friday night tilt against Reading and a typical three games in three nights.

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Rematch...

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SD-4 (SO)

Morgan Cey extracted a measure of revenge for last night's 7-1 blood bath stopping 33 of 37 shots faced in regulation and overtime before winning in the shootout. Justin Kelly once again led the way offensively for the Chiefs with a goal and two assists. Brady Greco had one of two Johnstown shorthanded goals in the first period.

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Uh oh.

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SD-7

Jonathan Boutin was completely and unmercifully shelled allowing 7 goals on 30 shots faced largely a product of a truly ugly 5 goal Gulls second period. This, unfortunately, has been the story of Boutin's career to this point. He's capable of playing incredible hockey one game, like his 48 of 49 shot performance in his last start against Bakersfield, and then proceeding directly into the toilet the next. This is the first time this kind of fate has befallen him this season, but in the past such a defeat has greatly hurt Boutin's confidence and mental approach going forward in a season. Boutin possesses the raw natural ability of a 1st or 2nd round pick and was compared to JS Giguere when he started his junior career in Halifax. The Lightning should think about dispatching roving goaltending instructor Cory Schwab to Johnstown immediately when the Chiefs return from this west coast road trip to try and make sure Boutin doesn't get down on himself, stays positive and moves on past tonight's game. Having a very supportive and positive coach like Anzalone will also, no doubt, aid in that effort. Either way, the Lightning have a potentially outstanding young player here who, with some extra help and attention, has upside as good if not better than any goaltending prospect in this organization.

Gerard Dicaire had a power play goal with Justin Kelly adding an assist in garbage time as well.

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Finally the shootout goes J-town's way.

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FRE-2 (SO)

Morgan Cey stopped 37 of 39 before defeating Fresno in the shootout session. Entering the day both Cey and Jonathan Boutin were in the top five in the ECHL in save percentage. John Toffey had an assist in the win and Justin Kelly scored the key tying goal on the power play early in the third period.

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Morgan Cey deserved better from the team in front of him.

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LV-5 (SO)

Morgan Cey made a mind boggling 54 saves in this contest before falling in the shootout. Listening to the streaming broadcast, it was very interesting to me how the young Lightning prospects other than Cey and Toffey really struggled to make an impact in this game. Perhaps the travel or, worse, the place they traveled to (Sin City) factored into their performance.

Toffey had a goal and an assist. Veteran Randy Rowe had 2 goals including the tying goal with just seconds left in regulation.

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