AHL Morning Skateboarding: May 14, 2025 | theahl.com

Whether in the regular season or the playoffs, goalkeepers are no longer a member of their job.

Whether it’s the playoffs, downturns, injuries or something that inspires the team, the AHL team uses the subcommittee approach to goalkeepers. This is a very comfortable thing for the head coach.

Well, the good thing is that the Laval Rockets are ready to have an impressive goalkeeper talent to start the North Final Series in Rochester tonight.

First of all Cayden Primeauafter a difficult start to the Montreal Canadaens, joined the Rockets shortly after Christmas. All he did at Laval was the best single-season record for the AHL goalkeeper (21-2-2), with an average score of 1.96 and a savings percentage of 0.927 in 26 games.

Then Jacob Fowlerhe won the Mike Richter Award this season in Boston College’s Division I men’s college hockey. The 20-year-old Fowler, who was a third-round pick for the Canadians in 2023, has been outstanding since coming to Laval, including a .953 save rate in three games against Cleveland in the division semifinals.

Rich means some decisions from the Rockets head coach Pascal VincentHowever. On the one hand, Fowler is the highest organizational prospect and performs well in the AHL. Again, Primeau has a great regular season and has played for the Eastern Conference Finals with Laval three years ago.

Who will start tonight?

“They both can play,” Vincent told the Montreal Gazette. “But they are so different, we’re going to save it in. We don’t play games. We analyze it with goalkeeper coaches and we’re very honest with them. Have a beautiful problem – if you can call it a problem. They’re great people and they support each other.”

The Calder Cup playoffs are not only suitable for players in every game. There can be a lot of development behind the scenes, especially when the team is resting for a long time like Amerks.

Having not competed since May 1, Amerks had plenty of time between practice, rest and development.

for Devon LevithHe allowed only two goals and put back-to-back blocks on Syracuse in the last round, an opportunity to dig out the details that the busy schedule wouldn’t allow.

But not too much. It’s about charging too.

“I think it’s important to find balance in an era like this,” Levi outlined. “It’s a great opportunity to have the details and prepare for the series and be ready, but it also has to be balanced with the time you leave the rink – rest, sleep, time with the boys – so that when we go to the series we’re fresh and we’re ready.”

Rochester’s current roster also talks about goalkeeper assets, i.e., the Buffalo Saber has accumulated in recent years. With Levi and the reserve FelixSandström Handling their goalkeepers, Amerks have promising Scott Ratzlaff With the veteran Michael Houser preparation. Ratzlaff, a fifth-round pick in 2023, has just completed his fourth full season with Seattle of Seattle’s Seattle of Western Hockey League, and he may start his career next season.

Three of the remaining eight coaches won the Calder Cups during the game.

Hershey’s Todd Nelson He is the defender of the 1994 champion Portland Pirates. He continued to serve as a coach and won four more titles, one of which was a Chicago assistant in 2008 and three served as head coaches for Grand Rapids (2017) and Hershey (2023, 2024).

Charlotte’s Geordie Kinnear In 1995, he was a sophomore defensive player for the Albany River Rats, winning the Calder Cup, where he was a teammate of current vice president of hockey surgery Bryan Helmer.

and Abbotsford’s Manny Malhotra In 2000, Hartford Wolf Pack won the Calder Cup in the Hartford Wolf Pack. Malhotra is his first season as Canucks after seven seasons as an NHL assistant in Vancouver and Doronto.

– with from Patrick Williams