In front of a school day crowd of over ten thousand at Copps Coliseum the Hamilton Bulldogs dropped a 4-1 decision to the Rochester Americans.

The Bulldogs lack of  experience and finish around the net surfaced again.  They piled up 16 shots on goal in the first period but trailed 1-0.  In  the second period they mustered only four shots and gave up three more.

Joonas Nattinen scored the only  Hamilton goal late in the third period.   Undrafted  defenseman Antoine Corbin picked up his first professional point with an assist on the goal.

The game was played in front of a Student’s Day 10.00 AM crowd of 10,649 at Copps Coliseum.

Before the game the Bulldogs announced the signing of goaltender 6’6″ goaltender Scott Darling to a 25-game professional tryout contract. (Team Announcement Below) Darling wound up playing in the third period replacing starting goaltender Robert Mayer after he had give up the fourth goal of the game.  Darling stopped all eight shots he faced.  The Bulldogs now have four goaltenders in their game, Mayer, Darling, Peter Delmas plus the injured Cedrick Desjardins.

Once again Rochester forward Frederick Roy ran afoul of a Bulldog rookie.  In the team’s last meeting he fought Brendan Gallagher.  Late in the first period he fought Hamilton’s Nathan Beaulieu.

The Bulldogs will play in Rochester Thursday.

Box Score Followed by Team Scoring Statistics

Rochester Americans 4 atHamilton Bulldogs 1 – Status: Final
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 – Copps Coliseum

Rochester 1 3 0 – 4
Hamilton 0 0 1 – 1

1st Period-

1, Rochester, Tarnasky 4 (Schofield, McNabb), 2:27.

Penalties-Biega Rch (cross-checking), 3:21; Quailer Ham (interference), 5:31; Mancari Rch (roughing), 8:31; Stortini Ham (roughing), 8:31; Blunden Ham (slashing), 9:55; Roy Rch (fighting), 17:51; Tarnasky Rch (misconduct – continuing altercation), 17:51; Beaulieu Ham (fighting), 17:51; Hagel Ham (misconduct – continuing altercation), 17:51; Adam Rch (slashing), 18:19.

2nd Period-

2, Rochester, Flynn 5 (Porter, Biega), 4:12.

3, Rochester, Gauthier-Leduc 1 (Porter, Flynn), 12:35.

4, Rochester, Brennan 7 (Foligno, Rankin), 15:14.

Penalties-Mancari Rch (roughing), 5:22; Bournival Ham (holding), 12:55; Mancari Rch (tripping), 17:08.

3rd Period-

5, Hamilton, Nattinen 1 (Corbin, Dumont), 17:35.

Penalties-Tinordi Ham (delay of game), 0:14; Biega Rch (closing hand on puck), 6:39; Palushaj Ham (tripping), 6:39; Mancari Rch (roughing), 7:17.

Shots on Goal-Rochester 12-10-8-30. Hamilton 16-4-7-27.
Power Play Opportunities-Rochester 0 / 4; Hamilton 0 / 5.
Goalies-Rochester, Leggio 8-4-0 (27 shots-26 saves). Hamilton, Mayer 4-4-1 (22 shots-18 saves); Darling 0-0-0 (8 shots-8 saves).
A-10,649
Referees-Darcy Burchell (42).
Linesmen-Joe Maynard (24), Ryan Lachine (83).

 

Hamilton Bulldogs 2012-13 Individual Stats

# Player GP G A PTS +/- PIM PP SHG SOG SH%
57 Blake Geoffrion 10 4 2 6 -2 9 0 0 29 13.8
17 Brendan Gallagher 11 3 3 6 -3 15 1 0 42 7.1
28 Aaron Palushaj 11 3 2 5 -6 4 2 0 34 8.8
14 Mike Blunden 11 2 3 5 0 26 1 0 19 10.5
40 Gabriel Dumont 11 2 3 5 -1 13 0 0 20 10.0
37 Patrick Holland 11 1 4 5 -5 2 0 0 16 6.3
18 Michael Bournival 11 1 3 4 -3 10 0 0 22 4.5
47 Darryl Boyce 11 1 3 4 -1 17 0 0 11 9.1
13 Steve Quailer 11 1 3 4 -1 13 0 0 17 5.9
4 Brendon Nash 8 0 4 4 3 10 0 0 6 0.0
23 Joonas Nattinen 8 1 2 3 0 2 0 0 10 10.0
32 Frederic St-Denis 11 1 2 3 2 4 0 0 13 7.7
20 Louis Leblanc 3 2 0 2 1 9 0 0 12 16.7
5 Jarred Tinordi 11 0 2 2 -9 11 0 0 10 0.0
15 Kyle Hagel 6 0 1 1 -3 20 0 0 3 0.0
2 Greg Pateryn 7 0 1 1 -3 0 0 0 10 0.0
3 Antoine Corbin 9 0 1 1 -5 6 0 0 15 0.0
8 Nathan Beaulieu 11 0 1 1 -3 11 0 0 22 0.0
12 Zack Stortini 11 0 1 1 -4 17 0 0 4 0.0
31 Scott Darling 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
6 Joe Stejskal 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
39 Peter Delmas 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
11 Alain Berger 6 0 0 0 -4 2 0 0 7 0.0
44 Morgan Ellis 8 0 0 0 -8 4 0 0 9 0.0
29 Robert Mayer 9 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0.0
BENCH 11 1 0 1
TOTALS 11 23 41 63 -55 207 4 0 333 0.066
# Goalies GP Mins W L SOL SO GA GAA SVS SV%
31 Scott Darling 1 24:32 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 8 1.000
29 Robert Mayer 9 474:42 4 4 1 0 23 2.91 219 0.905
39 Peter Delmas 3 171:44 0 2 0 0 10 3.49 64 0.865
TOTALS 11 674:05 4 6 1 0 34 3.03 291 0.895

HAMILTON, ONT – Hamilton Bulldogs General Manager Marc Bergevin announced today that the Club has signed goaltender Scott Darling to a Professional Try-Out Contract.  As per club policy, financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Darling, 23, has played two games for the Nailers this season going 0-2-0 with a 5.40 goals against average and a .803 save percentage.  The native of Lemont, Illinois played 35 games for the Mississippi RiverKings of the Southern Professional Hockey League during the 2011-2012 regular-season recording a 15-17-1 record with a 2.92 goals against average, a .905 save percentage and one shutout.  The 6’5”, 212-pound goaltender spent two seasons from 2008-2010 playing for the University of Maine in the Hockey East  Division compiling a record of 25-20-6 with a 2.92 goals against average, a .895 save percentage and three shutouts.  In 2006-2007, Darling posted a .924 save percentage for the Capital District Selects, which was ranked first overall in the Eastern Junior Hockey League. Darling was originally selected by the Phoenix Coyotes in the sixth round, 153rd overall in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft.