Game 39: San Diego Gulls @ San Antonio Rampage – Jan 21

I didn’t get to watch this one live and listened to maybe two thirds of it on the radio. It didn’t sound great. Anaheim had just played their final game before the All Star break and thus sent down everyone that was eligible to get some extra game time. This included Troy Terry, Max Jones, Sam Carrick, Andy Welinski, Jacob Larsson and the recently intentionally-floated-on-waivers-again Andrej Sustr. To balance out the rosters – Korbinian Holzer and Jake Dotchin were called up; it should be noted that these two are on one-way deals.

Despite the huge influx of talent – the Rampage too received some skill injections in the form of Jordan Kyrou, Jordan Nolan and Samuel Blais. It was a true battle of which club had the better prospect pool, and St Louis won.

San Diego was out-shot through the first two periods and appeared to be coming on strong toward the end but it was too little too late as the hosts came away by a four to zip margin.

Notes: Sam Steel debuted his new number – 23 – which he wore in Junior; it became available after Luke Schenn was dealt to the Canucks. Trevor Murphy also switched to 29 – not entirely sure why the change other than perhaps he wanted to get closer to his more familiar 28.