The wild start to 2023 continued for the Laval Rocket as they rolled back into Rochester for another meeting with the Americans. Last week in the same fixture, they fired 42 shots on net and found themselves on the losing end of a 2-1 game despite a strong showing.
In the rematch the Rocket were now without Jesse Ylönen, Rem Pitlick, and Rafaël Harvey-Pinard who were called up due to the injury crisis in Montreal. That meant the Rocket were down to the bare minimum of available players and running a fourth line of entirely ECHL call-ups. In net, Kevin Poulin was again given the nod, his 16th start in the last 19 games.