[Phantoms] PSECU Player of the Week – Colin McDonald (4/9)

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[Phantoms] PSECU Player of the Week – Colin McDonald (4/9)

Post by News » Fri May 11, 2018 12:42 am

ImageImageLEHIGH VALLEY — After a three-point performance in Sunday afternoon’s Atlantic-Division-Title-Clinching game against the Providence Bruins and netting two goals this past week, Lehigh Valley Phantoms captain Colin McDonald has been named the PSECU Player of the Week. Image The playoff-bound Phantoms headed south to kick off their week with back-to-back games against the Charlotte Checkers on Tuesday and Wednesday night.  Despite coming up on the wrong end of the scoresheet both nights, McDonald managed to light the lamp for his first goal of the week in Wednesday night’s tilt. Late in the second period, Danick Martel collected a turnover and rushed into the Checkers’ zone on a 2-on-1 with McDonald. Martel dished cross ice, to his right, and McDonald put the puck up and over the left side of Charlotte goaltender Callum Booth for the Phantoms first and only goal of the game. Image The team continued its road trip, this time by heading north, for games against Hartford, on Saturday night, and then against the Bruins in Providence on Sunday afternoon. Although Lehigh Valley dropped a 3-2 overtime decision to the Wolf Pack, earning a point helped to move the team closer to clinching the division crown for the first time in over 14 years. The Phantoms came out swinging in the first period on Sunday — outshooting their opponents 20-8 — and put up three goals in the first 16:34 of play. McDonald collected an assist — his first point of the game — on the Phantoms second goal when he dished a no-look, backhand pass across the ice to Greg Carey who was waiting on the backdoor.  Carey fired home his 31st goal of the season to make it 2-0 Phantoms at the 11:49 mark of the first. Image Later in the period, with just under two minutes remaining in the period, the captain became the benefactor of an equally impressive set up from Mikhail Vorobyev. Vorobyev stole the puck off of a Bruins’ player in the defensive zone and fed it into the slot where a streaking McDonald slammed it home to give the black and orange a 4-1 lead. The goal was McDonald’s eighth of the season and went on to be the game-winner in the Phantoms 6-3 victory over Providence. Image McDonald also tallied a secondary assist on Phil Varone’s second-period marker to complete his three-point performance and bring home first-star honors that night. With the victory the Phantoms claimed the American Hockey League’s 2017-18 Atlantic Division Title. Playoff strips and 10-game flex packs to the 2018 Calder Cup Playoffs are on sale now! Be here for every home playoff game in your same great seats with the Playoff strip and receive a FREE Official Orange Out Phantoms Playoff T-Shirt with each seat. The “pay as we play” option offers a convenient payment plan and the largest discount on tickets. Flex packs give fans the flexibility of selecting the games and number of tickets they want. For more information on Phantoms playoff packages, contact the Phantoms office at 610-224-GOAL [4625]. Prior PSECU Players of the Week 4-2-18 Greg Carey
3-26-18 Danick Martel

3-19-18 Dustin Tokarski / John Muse

3-12-18 Greg Carey

3-5-18 Mikhail Vorobyev

2-26-18 Phil Varone

2-19-18 Travis Sanheim

2-12-18 Corban Knight

2-5-18 John Muse

1-29-18 Alex Lyon

1-22-18 Chris Conner

1-15-18 Nic Aube-Kubel

1-8-18 T.J. Brennan

12-18-17 Corban Knight

12-11-17 Tyrell Goulbourne

12-4-17 Corban Knight

11-27-17 Greg Carey

11-20-17 Mike Vecchione

11-13-17 Phil Varone

11-6-17 Chris Conner
10-30-17 Oskar Lindblom

10-23-17 Dustin Tokarski

10-16-17 Mike Vecchione / Philippe Myers

10-9-17 Danick Martel
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