BSH prospect report: Squaring off

The news of the week

Another week, another injury bug related update. It\'s becoming a bit of a revolving door up in Allentown, as all of Wade Allison, Emil Andrae, and Ronnie Attard got back to game action this week after missing some time with either injury or illness, only to then see Elliot Desnoyers leave Saturday\'s game after a high hit. We still await an update on his status.

What\'s up with the Phantoms?

It was -- stop us if you\'ve heard this one before -- a bit of a mixed bag of a week for the Phantoms. They played three games, and the first two were losses (including one shutout), but they were able to close things out on a high note with a win on Saturday. And Saturday\'s win was a big one -- in their fourth matchup against them of the season, they were finally able to pull off a win over the first in the division Hershey Bears, who have given them heaps of trouble up until this point. That said, the Phantoms are still sitting squarely at seventh place in the division themselves. So do with all of that what you will.

The top points getters on the weekend was a pair of Swedes, as Emil Andrae (making a strong impact in his return to action) and Olle Lycksell (who can\'t seem to slow down in his offensive pace) both collected a pair of assists each.

We\'re a little short on the goals in this week\'s report, but the ones that we do have to talk about are good ones. First up, in his return to action for Wednesday\'s weird morning game in Springfield, Wade Allison was able to hit the ground running and get himself on the board early.

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Later in the weekend, in the Phantoms\' rematch against the Bears, J.R. Avon scored the goal in the third to put them up 3-1 and give them some extra insulation against any potential late game comeback by the Bears.

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And to close things out, and in keeping with our weird little bit of continuity we\'ve found thus far, while our two A-last named prospects each came out of this week with a goal, two G-last named prospects (Helge Grans and Adam Ginning) each had an assist.

The prospect world tour

We\'re a little short on hugely dynamic performances among the college prospects to report on this week, but we do still have some good updates. Both Bryce Brodzinski and Cole Knuble came out of their last two games with a goal -- and for Knuble, it was his first of the season -- and while Owen McLaughlin couldn\'t get in on the goal scoring this weekend, he did manage to put up a tidy three assists.

Over in the Hockey East, it was a relatively quiet week, as Devin Kaplan put up an assist in a pretty successful weekend for BU, while Cutter Gauthier also had one assist, but in a pretty difficult weekend for BC (but more on that later this week).

We also had the one of our prospect vs. prospect matchups this weekend, as Denver and Arizona State played their series, but there\'s not too much to report from that one -- one assist for Massimo Rizzo and no points for Ty Murchison.

While we\'re on the topic of quiet weeks (relatively speaking), we\'ll note the Ryan MacPhereson out in Penticton was held to just one goal in his last two games (unimaginable, right?).

Over in London, though, the Flyers\' prospects are still scoring at an absolutely rapid rate. In their three games this week, Oliver Bonk put up a point per game (in the form of a goal and two assists), and Denver Barkey stole the show with his two goals and five assists.

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We also had an exciting little battle of the Flyers prospects over in the KHL this week, as HC Moscow and Dinamo Minsk squared off in a pair of games. Alexei Kolosov got one of those starts, and stopped 18 of the 19 shots he faced. The one shot that got by him, though? That came from Matvei Michkov.

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Outside of this matchup, Michkov would go on to chip in two more assists on the week (one in their second game against Minsk, and another against Vityaz), and Kolosov would allow two goals on 26 shots faced in his final start of the week.

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