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 

Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster

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

ITR 47: Then There Was Nothing Inside The Rink

Join Conrad and Chris as the discuss Gavin McKenna making the jump to the NCAA, Pittsburgh and San Jose making additions, and the NHL season to begin on October 7, 2025.
  1. ITR 47: Then There Was Nothing
  2. ITR 46: Offseason Chaos
  3. ITR 45: Everything Is Happening
  4. ITR 44: We Have A Champion…Again
  5. ITR 43: It's Winning Time


Discover more from Inside The Rink

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

Leave a Reply

ECHL: Allen Americans Sign Thomas Caron

The Allen Americans have announced that they’ve signed forward Thomas Caron for the 2025-26 season. Caron, 28, played in 31 games with the Idaho Steelheads, putting up eight goals and 18 assists for 26 points. In January, he would be traded to the Indy Fuel before being suspended by the team just two days later. […]

Read More

Winnipeg Jets Re-Sign Gabriel Vilardi and Parker Ford

The Winnipeg Jets have re-signed forwards Gabriel Vilardi and Parker Ford to contract extensions today. Ford received a two-year, two-way contract worth $775,000 in year one and $850,000 in year two, per Ken Wiebe of the Winnipeg Free Press. Vilardi received a six-year contract worth $7.5 million annually, avoiding salary arbitration days before the hearing. […]

Read More
Utah Mammoth Extend AHL All-Star

Utah Mammoth Extend AHL All-Star

The Utah Mammoth announced they’ve extended an AHL All-Star to a two-year, two-way contract.

Read More