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Brian Eklund stopped 39 of 42 shots faced in his Chiefs debut before falling 2-0 in the shootout. The Chiefs blew an early 2-0 lead in the contest and once again allowed Dayton to steal a point away from them. Randy Rowe scored 2 goals for the Chiefs while Justin Kelly had 1G 1A.

Game sheet from ECHL.com.

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John Grahame stopped 29 of 29 for the shutout. With Vincent Lecavalier out of the lineup with the all encompassing "upper body injury" Brad Richards stepped up and registered 2 goals. Amongst Lightning prospects, Ryan Craig scored his 8th goal on a beautifully ugly scrum in front of the Caps net while in garbage time Norm Milley scored his second career goal on the power play.

Ryan Craig played 21:11 stepping up to fill Vincent Lecavalier's minutes with a +3 rating and 3 shots on goal. Paul Ranger played 15:29 with three shots on goal and an even rating. Evgeny Artyukhin played 10:31 with 1 shot on goal and 1 hit. Norm Milley played 6:59 and made his lone shot on goal count.

Game sheet from NHL.com.

In addition to sending goaltender Brian Eklund down to Johnstown yesterday the Falcons also reassigned defenseman Jay Rosehill to the Chiefs. Rosehill played 33 games with Springfield since an early season recall, but his inexperience limited the amount of playing time he saw at the AHL level. Unfortunately, shortly after the decision to send Rosehill down, defenseman Gerard Dicaire came down with food poisoning, forcing the Falcons to start last night's game against Manchester with just 5 defensemen.

One of the stories of this prospect season we've been underreporting has been the play of overage prospect Sascha Goc in the German DEL. Bolt Prospects had all but written off Goc after an injury plagued season last year with Adler Mannheim and sliding offensive numbers since his days as an Albany River Rat in the Devils organization. This year, the former Mannheim captain is starting fresh with the Hannover Scorpions and showing dramatic improvement. Goc has 14 goals and 26 points through 45 games this season to go with 154 penalty minutes. Goc will be given a prime showcase at the upcoming Olympics, and with both Cory Sarich and Pavel Kubina needing contract decisions this summer, its not impossible for Goc to play his way into consideration by the organization once again.

With Linkopings having to provide more goal support with Fredrik Norrena out of the lineup, defenseman Andreas Holmqvist is starting to emerge as one of the premiere power play weapons in the Elitserien. Today, Holmqvist chipped in a goal and two power play assists as Linkopings squeaked by HV 71 5-4. The victory was a triumph considering HV 71 is currently the top team in the Elitserien and Linkopings is missing their star goaltender. Holmqvist is suddenly with in a eyelash of the half a point a game plateau with 20 points in 41 games.