Jackets' prospects start slow, end slow in Lake Erie's AHL season opener
Friday night was the debut of the all-new, new-look, Blue Jacket-affiliated, highly hyphenated Lake Erie Monsters. The youngsters traveled to Upstate New York to take on the Rochester Americans in their American Hockey League regular-season opener, and the results were something less than what Coach Jared Bednar and the boys would have wanted.
The Monsters gave up three goals in the first 12 minutes of the game and eventually fell to the Amerks, 6-3. On the plus side, Lake Erie battled back to forge a 3-3 tie through two periods before surrendering a three-goal Rochester barrage in the third.