AHL Playoff Preview: Laval Rocket at Rochester Americans with Line Combinations 5/14/2025

AHL Playoff Preview: Laval Rocket at Rochester Americans with Line Combinations 5/14/2025
Marisa Filice – Inside The Rink

Game 1: Laval Rocket at Rochester Americans

Venue Blue Cross Arena
Date: Wednesday, May 14
Time: 7:05 pm EST
TV: FLO Sports 

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Laval Rocket News & Notes:

The Rocket took the series against Cleveland in four. They averaged three goals per game while allowing 1.5 goals per game. Jacob Fowler is posted a 1.00 goals-against average and a .953 save percentage. Cayden Primeau played in one game, stopping 22 of the 25 shots he faced. The Rocket went 6-1-1-0 against the Americans in the regular season averaging three goals per game.

Rochester Americans News & Notes:

The Americans swept the Syracuse Crunch to get to this point. They are averaging 3.7 goals per game while allowing 0.7 goals per game. Devon Levi is posting a 0.67 goals-against average and a .978 save percentage with two shutouts. The Americans went 2-5-1-0 against Laval in the regular season averaging two goals per game.

Laval Rocket Projected Lines

Farrell-Dauphin-Barre-Boulet
Roy-Kapanen-Gignac
Harvey-Pinard-Condotta-Simoneau
Davidson-Xhekaj-Beck

Wotherspoon-Lindstrom
Trudeau-Mailloux
Engstrom-Reinbacher

Fowler
Primeau 

Rochester Americans Projected Lines

Murray-Kulich-Rosen
Jobst-Ostlund-Wahlberg
Fiddler-Schultz-Kozak-Helenius
Slaggert-Dunne-Warren

Clague-Brannstrom Komarov
Novikov-Metsa
Johnson-Rathbone

Levi
Sandstrom

Players To Watch:

Laval Rocket

Laurent Dauphin and Alex Barre-Boulet are tied for the team in points with six. Dauphin leads in goals and plus/minus with three goals and a plus-three. Boulet leads in assists with five.

Rochester Americans

Kale Clague leads the American in points, and goals with five points and three goals. He is tied with Konsta Helenius, Tyson Kozak, Jiri Kulich, and Zachary Metsa in assists with two. Clague is also tied in plus/minus with Nikita Novikov as both are a plus-four.

Next Game

Game 2: Friday, May 16 at Blue Cross Arena

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