Jack Campbell and the Condors fall to Abbotsford in the only AHL game on the schedule, with mixed results from a host of NHL call-ups on Thursday, November 9th.
In the loan game across the AHL on Thursday, all eyes were on Jack Campbell as the Condors locked horns with the surging, high-octane offense of the Abbotsford Canucks.
Campbell, who was demoted following a brutal start to the 2023-24 NHL Campaign, struggled in the contest, allowing four goals against only 20 shots, though he wasn't offered much in the way of goal support from his teammates.
Seth Griffith opened the scoring for Bakersfield at 2:52 in the 1st, before Campbell conceded Nils Aman's sixth of the season.
From there the Canucks would break open the game in the second, scoring a short-handed goal off of Sheldon Dries, with Aman's scoring his seventh and Marc Gatcomb adding an insurance marker at 15:36 of the frame.
The Condors drop to 4-3 on the season, while Abbotsford moves to 7-4-1.
In the NHL, mixed results were had by recent AHL call-ups.
Matthew Highmore, recently recalled from Belleville, logged an assist with a plus-one, and 10:13 ice time in his first NHL game of the season, a 5-2 loss to the red-hot Vancouver Canucks. Highmore currently leads the B-Sens with seven points in nine games.
Amidst a current goaltending injury crisis in New York, big league vet Louis Domingue made his first start of the season for the Rangers, stopping 25 shots in a 4-1 route of the struggling Minnesota Wild. Domingue has a 3.02 GAA and .902 SP in 143 NHL games.
Fourth overall selection in 2022, Shane Wright made his NHL season debut last night in a 4-3 Kraken win over the Avalanche, though his ice time was, at best, minimal. Wright logged only 8:34 of ice time in the contest, contributing one shot on goal, with fellow call-up Ryan Winterton receiving only 7:01 across 60 minutes. Thriving Eagles forward Riley Tufte, meanwhile, netted 14:10 of ice time with one shot, three hits, and a minus-one for the night.