It took seventeen games, but Jesse Gabrielle finally got the monkey off his back when he netted his first professional goal against Utica on Sunday. He had gone scoreless in sixteen games and also spent some time as a healthy scratch before finding the back of the net for the first time.
It’s fair to say that Gabrielle has had an up-and-down season thus far. He might only have one point, but there were several games where Gabrielle was one of the hardest working players on the ice. There’s been two games where Gabrielle had at least five shots.