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In the pros: Bachman suffers first pro loss

November 5th, 2009, 12:44 pm by jpaisley

From the Idaho Statesman …

The Idaho Steelheads (7-1-1) lost in regulation for the first time this season as the Utah Grizzlies skated to a 5-2 win Wednesday at the E-Center in West Valley City, Utah.

Dylan Hunter netted a hat trick for the Grizzlies (4-2-0), who scored three of their five goals on power plays.

Marty Flichel and Evan Barlow scored goals for Idaho and Weston Tardy, Brendan Milnamow and Mike Stuart added assists.

Goalie Richard Bachman suffered the first loss of his professional career (4-1-1). He stopped 21-of-26 shots.

In the pros: Bachman wins ECHL goalie of the week

November 3rd, 2009, 6:32 pm by jpaisley

content_20091018_sc_002From the ECHL …

Idaho Steelheads netminder Richard Bachman has been named the Reebok Hockey ECHL Goaltender of the Week for October 26 to November 1.

Bachman, a rookie out of Colorado College, was 2-0-1 between the pipes with a goals-against average of 2.25 as Idaho took five of a possible six points in a weekend series against the Alaska Aces.

The 22-year-old is 4-0-1 on the season with a .909 save percentage. The four wins is tied for tops in the ECHL.

While this is the first league-wide honor for Bachman, it already marks the second time this year an Idaho goaltender has been honored for his play. Rejean Beauchemin was the ECHL’s Goaltender of the Week for his play on October 16 and 17.

In the pros: No. 1 job open for Bachman

October 30th, 2009, 1:41 pm by jpaisley

From Oursportscentral.com …

Before leaving the Boise International Airport Thursday morning for Alaska, Idaho Steelheads head coach Derek Laxdal announced some changes between the pipes for his ECHL hockey club.

Goaltender Rejean Beauchemin has been loaned to Manitoba of the American Hockey League. To fill his spot on the roster, the Steelheads have signed ECHL veteran Kevin Nastiuk.

Nastiuk, 24, has played for the ECHL’s Alaska Aces, Las Vegas Wranglers, Gwinnett Gladiators, and Florida Everblades. He also has 23 games of experience in the AHL since turning pro in 2005.

“Beauch earned this opportunity by playing well in Manitoba’s training campand then playing well here for us to start the season,” Laxdal said of the promotion. “And Nastiuk is a solid player who knows the situation and knows how to handle himself professionally.”

Laxdal said he’s unsure how long Beauchemin will be gone, which is why the organization chose to sign an established goaltender to team with Richard Bachman in net for Idaho. Beauchemin is 3-0-0 with the Steelheads with a .940 save percentage and 1.67 goals-against average. He’s among the ECHL’s league leaders in all three categories.

Bachman, Crabb sent down

September 30th, 2009, 5:05 pm by jpaisley

Former CC standout goalie Richard Bachman, 23, was assigned to the ECHL’s Idaho Steelheads, the Dallas Stats announced Wednesday. Bachman spent time in the Dallas and Texas Stars (AHL) training camps. Bachman was a two-year starter in net for CC before leaving the program this offseason.

Joey Crabb was sent from Atlanta’s training camp to the AHL’s Chicago Wolves earlier this week.

Bachman performs well in NHL prospects tournament

September 11th, 2009, 4:03 pm by jpaisley

From the Dallas Stars web site …

The Stars continue to get better at the NHL Prospects Tournament in Traverse City, Mich., and that’s a great sign for all involved.

 

 

“That’s why you’re here,” said Glen Gulutzan, the new coach of the Texas Stars, who is coaching the prospects, as well. “You want to see progress, you want to see players learn, and we’re seeing that.”

Dallas took a hard-fought 4-3 win over Columbus Wednesday to move to 1-1-1 in pool play. The Stars finished third in the Western Division of the eight-team tournament .

Richard Bachman was great in goal as he had 35 saves and allowed only two 5-on-3 goals and a puck that deflected in off of his own defenseman. That was a big improvement on Bachman’s performance in a 9-6 loss to St. Louis in the tournament opener.

“You just want to get out there and play again after a game like that, so this was fun,” Bachman said. “It’s good to just get in there and forget about everything else and just play.”

Bachman was under siege early as he had to stop a Columbus power play just 1:19 into the game and also had to face a penalty shot in the first period. He came through untarnished by either and the Stars came out with a 1-0 first period lead on a deflected goal by Sergei Korostin.

“It’s good sometimes to get tested, especially if you get through it,” Bachman said. “You get a lot of confidence.”

Walsky Named WCHA Offensive POW

November 11th, 2008, 1:46 pm by Kate Crandall

Right wing Eric Walsky earned offensive player of the week honors for his four-goal performance, the Western Collegiate Hockey Association announced Tuesday.

Walsky follows up goaltender Richard Bachman as CC’s second weekly award winner of the season. Bachman earned defensive player of the week honors last week.

From the WCHA:

WCHA Offensive Player of the Week • Eric Walsky, Sr., F, Colorado College
Colorado College right winger Eric Walsky, who scored four goals to lead his No. 2-ranked Tigers to a 7-4 conference victory over visiting league rival North Dakota last Saturday night, is the Red Baron® WCHA Offensive Player of the Week for November 11-17.
A 5-11, 195-pound senior from Anchorage, Alaska, Walsky twice brought Colorado College back from deficits in the game on Nov. 7, scoring a tying power-play goal in the first period and another tying goal in the second period. He then completed his hat trick by scoring the eventual game-winning goal at 14:04 of the second and then added an insurance goal at 8:51 of the third as the Tigers earned a 7-4 win over the Fighting Sioux.
In addition to his four-goal outburst, Walsky also fired 10 shots on goal in the series and earned a +2 plus/minus rating. On the 2008-09 season, he ranks second among his CC teammates in scoring with seven goals, five assists and 12 points in the first 10 games.

Eyes on Bachman

November 10th, 2008, 12:19 pm by Kate Crandall

With the Dallas Stars sporting the worst goals-against average (GAA) in the NHL — their 3.83 team GAA is more than two-tenths worse than the Atlanta Thrashers’ GAA — it’s not surprising that fans and beat writers alike are analyzing the future.

The Dallas Morning News’ Mike Heika, who covers the Stars, threw out the idea of bringing in goaltender Richard Bachman next season and handing him the reins.

Bachman, a fourth-round pick by the Stars in 2006, is ranked higher in the Stars’ system than current backup goaltender Tobias Stephan. (Take it with a grain of salt: amid more salient analysis, the writer says Bachman “needs to avoid psyching himself out when the spotlight is on him.” I don’t recall a time when I have seen that happen.)

Anyway, this is a developing story, but I wanted to give you a heads-up on the latest Bachs-buzz.

Bachman Nets WCHA, INCH Honors

November 4th, 2008, 12:55 pm by Kate Crandall

Goaltender Richard Bachman was named WCHA defensive player of the week and Inside College Hockey player of the week for his 84-save performance against Denver last weekend. He is also featured on the New York Times’ hockey blog this week.

From the WCHA:

WCHA Defensive Player of the Week • Richard Bachman, So., G, Colorado College
Colorado College goaltender Richard Bachman, who backstopped the No. 1-ranked Tigers to three of four points in a conference home-and-home series with arch-rival Denver last weekend, is the Red Baron® WCHA Defensive Player of the Week for November 4-10.
A 5-10, 165-pound sophomore from Highlands Ranch, Colo., and the reigning WCHA Player of the Year, Bachman stopped 84 of 88 shots on goal in the series for a .955 saves percentage, limited the Pioneers to just one power-play goals in 19 man-advantage attempts, and earned the No. 1 star of the game both nights. He had 44 saves in a 2-2 overtime tie at Denver last Friday (Oct. 31) and then had 40 stops in Colorado College’s 3-2 victory over DU last Sunday in Colorado Springs.
Bachman, a draftee of the National Hockey League’s Dallas Stars, has not allowed more than two goals in a game this season as the Tigers have stretched their season-opening unbeaten streak to eight games at 5-0-3.

Bachman’s Save of the Game

November 2nd, 2008, 9:51 pm by Kate Crandall

Gazette photographer Justin Edmonds captured this beauty of shot. This is goaltender Richard Bachman making a glove save while in a full split to stymie Denver defenseman Patrick Wiercioch with 55.9 seconds left. The Pioneers had pulled goaltender Marc Cheverie with 1:15 left in the game.

CC 4 — Michigan Tech 2 (final)

October 18th, 2008, 7:05 pm by Kate Crandall

The Tigers scored on their first power play of the game when center Chad Rau fed right wing Eric Walsky in the slot. He beat goaltender Rob Nolan gloveside with a blazing wrist shot.

CC nearly took a 2-0 lead about eight minutes into the period when center Brian McMillin appeared to tap in a puck during a scramble in front of the net. After a review by the officials, it was determined that the puck did not cross the goal line before it was knocked away by a Michigan Tech defenseman. McMillin concurred with the call after the game.

Goaltender Richard Bachman’s shutout streak(dating back to CC’s game against Michigan State last season) was snapped at 162:34, just more than two minutes into the second period. The Tigers had just finished killing a 5-on-3 penalty when Michigan Tech’s Jordan Baker and Alex Macleod crashed the net, knocking the puck under Bachman.

After being outshot 14-7 in the second, the Tigers came out blazing in the third. Less than three minutes into the third, left wing Bill Sweatt converted Walsky’s cross-slot pass, beating Nolan over his right shoulder. On their third power play of hte period, right wing Stephen Schultz tucked a no-angle shot inside the near post and over Nolan’s left shoulder to give CC a 3-1 lead. With Nolan pulled for the final 2:29, Huskies’ center Brett Olson beat Bachman with 21.2 seconds left. But Walsky tapped in Sweatt’s leading pass with 1.8 seconds remaining to seal the win for CC.

Some things that didn’t make the game story or notes

**Recruit Dakota Eveland attended Saturday’s game. A forward for the Omaha Lancers (USHL), Eveland is not expected to return from an undisclosed injury until mid-November.

**As of 10:26 p.m. MT, CC was one of five teams left with a perfect penalty kill. The Tigers (28 of 28) have killed by far the most penalties. Three more and CC will tie last year’s mark of 31 consecutive kills.

**CC rolled three power-play units, using players from its top three lines. More on this next week.

Colorado College
21 Sweatt — 14 Rau — 22 Walsky
26 McCulloch — 19 Vlassopoulos — 28 Schultz
23 Hall — 17 Johnson — 5 DeBoer
18 Overman — 9 McMillin — 25 Testwuide

11 Connelly — 15 Prosser
7 Fredheim — 4 Gannon
10 Guentzel — 24 Lowery

30 Bachman
31 O’Connell

Michigan Tech
22 Baker –18 Gagne — 9 Gwilliam
28 Kitti — 15 Kattelus — 14 Macleod
7 Lord — 16 Olson — 17 Reddick
11 Soley — 19 Royer — 21 Boyer

12 Kinrade — 8 Vanwagner
5 Dobson — 24 Kivisto
20 Vlaisavljevich — 26 Cousens

37 Nolan
30 Robinson

Michigan Tech 0 1 1 2

Colorado College 1 0 3 4

First period – 1. CC, Walsky (Rau, Prosser), 3:23, pp. Penalties – Soley, MTU (checking from behind), 2:28; Sweatt, CC (tripping), 6:46; Kitti, MTU (holding), 9:06; Kivisto, MTU (delay of game), 12:07; Johnson, CC (interference), 16:57; Rau, CC (roughing), 20:00.

Second – 2. MTU, Baker (Macleod, Royer), 2:34. Penalties – Sweatt, CC (boarding), :32; Bunger, MTU (interference); Dobson, MTU (tripping), 8:16; Overman, CC (elbowing), 12:11; Schultz, CC (boarding), 17:10.

Third – 3. CC, Sweatt (Walsky, Rau), 2:45. 4. CC, Schultz (Vlassopoulos, Fredheim), 9:47, pp. 5. MTU, Olson (Gwilliam), 19:39. 6. CC, Walsky (Sweatt), 19:58, en. Penalties – Soley, MTU (hooking), 4:36; Kitti, MTU (tripping), 5:40; Dobson, MTU (holding), 9:26; Prosser, CC (holding), 11:53.

Shots on goal – MTU 10-14-11-35. CC 13-7-16-36. Power-play Opportunities – MTU 0 of 7, CC 2 of 8. Goalies – MTU, Nolan 12-7-13 (35 shots, 32 saves), 0-3. CC, Bachman 10-13-10 (35 shots, 33 saves), 3-0. A – 6,451. T – 2:22. Referees – Brad Albers, Craig Welker. Linesmen – Bob Keltie, Butch Mousseaux.

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