Marlies 3, Phantoms 2: Yikes

Well we were, uh, off to quite the start there. Inside the first minute of play, before we could really say that much of anything happened, we had a stoppage of play on an icing and Cole Bardreau was already trying to mix it up with some Marlies. Nothing really came out of it, but we certainly didn’t have to wait very long for an answer to the question of “are we still going to have some chippiness?” That’s going to be a resounding yes.

Things quieted down on the emotion front, from there, and the speed of play picked up as the Phantoms got back to work and looked to spark something in the offensive zone. They weren’t able to get anything out of that work, but they were stepping up. So…