SMJHL S31 Game #99 - Vancouver Whalers (Away) vs Montreal Militia (Home)


Angello’s 4 Point Night Crushes Vancouver In Montreal’s 5-2 Win
by Rusty Klesla / ********.com Staff Writer
Lately, Nolan Angello has been the best point producer on the Montreal Militia roster. Saturday night in Montreal was no exception as Angello scored a hat trick and added an assist for his second 4 point night in as many games. The Montreal Militia seems to firing on all cylinders and Angello is a big part of that.
“Pucks just seemed to go in for me in this game”, Angello said in his post game interview, who had a 33% shot percentage in this game scoring 3 goals on 9 shots. “I had 9 shots I think (Angello pauses for a moment and I confirm his assumption with a nod) and I had 4 or 5 good looks and to get 3 goals on any night, its great and it feels amazing to contribute to this team’s success in that kind of way.”
While Montreal had 5 powerplay attempts, Angello scored all 3 of his goals even strength while adding a secondary assist Wesley Wells’ powerplay goal in the second period, which remained Montreal’s only powerplay goal in the game.

The game started excellently for the Montreal Militia as Jason Forbrook put Montreal up 1-0 just 28 seconds into the game with a slick wrister after Wesley Wells intercepted a pass in the neutral zone and sent the puck to Forbrook who fired home his 3rd goal of the season.

The first half of the second period was all Ace Redding as he scored 2 goals and put his team up 2-1 halfway through the second period. But then Nolan Angello took matters into his own hands and the Montreal Militia dominated where it mattered the most: Goals scored.

First, Viatcheslav Orlov intercepted a pass by Carl Farris, sent the puck to Ilmari Määttä who passed the puck to Zach Zyvlevski who created time for Määttä to join the rush and then find Angello all alone in the middle of the slot from where Angello fired home his first goal of the game.
And then at 14:32, Ace Redding took a minor penalty for interference, sending the Montreal Militia to a powerplay. And 47 seconds into the powerplay, Filip Granlund finds a loose puck that came off the stick of Nolan Angello, sending it to Wesley Wells on the point who fired home a laser from the point, scoring the only powerplay goal of the game for the Montreal Militia and what would remain as the game winning goal.
And just a little over a minute later, Orlov intercepts a pass by Ieuan Llewellyn, sending the puck to Nolan Angello who skates through the neutral zone and past the Whalers defense before rifling home a shot off the left circle between goaltender Triforce Link’s blocker and body, putting the Montreal Militia up 4-2 and sending Link to the bench after he had stopped 13 shots out of 17, giving way to Maximilian Wehner.

After tying 12-12 for shots on goal in the 2nd period, Montreal bombed Maximilian Wehner with 15 shots, versus Montreal goaltender Stephen Harris who only faced 7 shots in the 3rd. And at 8:21 of the 3rd period, Nolan Angello completed his hat trick and crowned his four point night after defenseman Kristofer Hallfredsson retrieved a dumped puck from the Montreal Militia zone, sending a pass to Angello who passed to defenseman Wells who joined the rush with Angello and found him alone on the left circle where he then fired home a quick wrister through the seven hole on goaltender Wehner, who finished the game with 15 saves on 16 shots.

“I felt like our special teams were really good, we killed 4 out of 5 penalties and we only had one chance on the powerplay so the fact that it didn’t work out doesn’t concern me”, goaltender Maximilian Wehner said post game. “I just feel like 5 on 5, we were slow on our skates, we didn’t have too many dangerous chances and overall we just need to be better, we just got slapped two games in a row here and it should be a wake up call for everyone, this is not how we should play.”


Nolan Angello hat trick goal

STATS ANALYSIS


Offense
The Vancouver Whalers only had one powerplay chance, on which they did not score on, indicating that the Montreal Militia were in control for most of the game and weren’t forced to take penalties or didn’t get frustrated enough to take them unnecessarily. The Vancouver Whalers took five 2 minute penalties, one in the 1st period and two in the 2nd and 3rd periods.
Vancouver had a strong penalty kill, preventing 4 out of 5 of Montreal’s chances on the powerplay from resulting in a goal.

The Montreal Militia had five attempts on the powerplay, of which they only scored on one opportunity, indicating that the Vancouver Whalers were the team who were forced to take more penalties either to prevent plays or in frustration but that the Whalers were also on point with their shorthanded units. The Montreal Militia only took one penalty and that was in the 3rd period of the game.

Defense
The Montreal Militia edged the Vancouver Whalers in hits and faceoff wins (24 hits versus 15 hits and 46 faceoff wins versus 39 faceoff wins) while the Whalers blocked 11 shots and the Montreal Militia only blocked 4 shots. However, the Montreal Militia allowed less shots on goal at 25 compared to the 33 they managed to put against the two Whalers goaltenders. The Vancouver Whalers changed goaltenders during the game while the Montreal Militia did not.

The Vancouver Whalers relied on their top 4 defensemen to play most of the heavy minutes (the two top pairings both played 35% of the game) while the 3rd pairing played 25% of the game and the 4th pairing (which consists of players from the 1st and 2nd pairing) only played 5% of the game.

The Montreal Militia distributed their defensive minutes evenly with their bottom 3 pairings with the top 2 pairing of Määttä and Orlov playing 34% of the game, the 2nd and 3rd pairings playing 23% of the game and the 4th pairing playing 20% of the game with all pairing consisting of different players as opposed to the Vancouver Whalers who only rotated 3 pairings with different players, perhaps tiring out their defense with this setup where 3 pairings played aroudn 15-16 minutes whereas only the top pairing of Montreal played that much and the rest of the minutes were evenly distributed with 6 other defensemen.

Shots On Goal
Montreal Militia shots on goal on the powerplay:
1st attempt, no shots on goal. No goal
2nd attempt, 2 shots on goal No goal
3rd attempt, 3 shots on goal. Goal
4th attempt, 7 shots on goal. No goal
Total shots on goal on the powerplay: 12.

Shots on goal even strength or shorthanded: 21.
Overall shots on goal: 33. The Montreal Militia had plenty of shots on goal on the powerplay, especially on attempt #4 but lacked finishing.

Vancouver Whalers shots on goal on the powerplay:
1st attempt, 2 shots on goal.
Total shots on goal on the powerplay: 2.

Shots on goal even strength or shorthanded: 23.
Overall shots on goal: 25. The Vancouver Whalers only had 2 shots on goal on the powerplay, but they only had one powerplay opportunity. They outshot the Montreal Militia even strength/shorthanded shots combined.

Shots on goal per period

1st period
Montreal Militia - 6
Vancouver Whalers - 6

2nd period
Montreal Militia - 12
Vancouver Whalers - 12

3rd period
Montreal Militia - 15
Vancouver Whalers - 7

Link to game

Him Torton’s 3 Stars Of The Game

1 - Nolan Angello (MTL) – 3 goals, 1 assist TOI: 20:08
2 - Wesley Wells (MTL) 1 goal, 2 assists. TOI: 14:29
3 - Ace Redding (VAN) 2 goals. TOI: 21:27