The Toronto Marlies visited the Grand Rapids Griffins for a weekend pair of games on Friday and Saturday. The Marlies lost the first game pretty handily by a score of 4-1, but came back strong in game two, winning it 5-2, despite losing their best defenseman to an awful injury.
Timothy Liljegren left Saturday’s game midway through the first period after colliding with Brian Lashoff behind the Griffins net. It was a brutal play and Liljegren got hit both in the chest, but mostly on the knee. Head Coach Sheldon Keefe said Liljegren looked better after the game, and that the damage wasn’t as bad as it looked, so that’s very encouraging.