Fast Facts: Moose at Belleville – Feb. 26

The Manitoba Moose (17-29-1-1) continue their trek through Eastern Canada with a matchup against the Belleville Senators (23-18-3-4) tonight (6 p.m. CT) at CAA Arena. It's the third meeting of the season between the clubs after Belleville scored a pair of wins in Winnipeg in December. Both those games saw Belleville fall behind 3-0 early, only to climb back into the contest and eventually win. Both teams head into this evening's tilt coming off 2-1 overtime wins. The Moose were in Toronto, while the Senators won in Cleveland. Coverage of tonight's game on cjob.com, the Winnipeg Jets App and AHLTV on FloHockey gets started at 5:45 p.m. CT.

Game-Winner

Dominic Toninato nabbed the overtime-winner on Sunday. The goal marked Toninato’s 10th of the season, making him the fourth Moose to reach double-digits on the campaign. It went down as the Duluth, Minn. product’s 18th career game-winning tally, meaning 27.7 percent of Toninato’s 65 career goals are winners. The game-ending goal was his fourth-career overtime tally, having scored at least one in three consecutive seasons with the Moose. The overtime victory was Manitoba’s second of the season, to go with two shootout wins. The Moose are 4-2 when games require extra time.

20 Strong

Brad Lambert helped set up Toninato’s winner on Sunday. The primary assist marked Lambert’s 20th helper of the campaign. It’s the second straight season the Lahti, Finland export has recorded at least 20 assists. Impressively, 16 of Lambert’s 20 assists, or 80 percent, are primary assists. The 2022 first round pick leads the Moose in both categories. Lambert’s 16 primary assists are tied for 15th in the AHL. Breaking down Lambert’s assists further, he has 13 even strength assists and seven power play helpers.

Spreading Around the Offence

The Moose scoring list features a balanced leaderboard with sixth players within five points of the team’s scoring lead. Brad Lambert sets the pace at 23 points (3G, 20A), but Mason Shaw and Parker Ford both sit right behind him at 21 points. From there, Dominic Toninato (19), Nikita Chibrikov (18) and Axel Jonsson-Fjällby (18) are all within five points. In the goals department, Parker Ford leads the group with 14 tallies, but three players are tied for second with Shaw, Toninato and Ben King all sitting at 10 goals. Five Moose have 11 or 12 assists in behind Lambert’s team-leading 20 helpers.

Roster Moves

The Winnipeg Jets reassigned goaltender Kaapo Kähkönen to the Moose on Monday. Kähkönen holds a 6-15-0 record with a 3.26 goals-against average and a .888 save percentage in 22 appearances split between the Moose and Colorado Eagles. Over his past nine games with the Moose, Kähkönen features a 2.55 goals-against average and a .908 save percentage despite a 3-6-0 record. The Jets also announced the team recalled forward Jaret Anderson-Dolan from the Moose. Anderson-Dolan has 13 points (5G, 8A) in 38 games this season with nine points (3G, 6A) in his past 14 games. That includes a multi-goal outing, including the game-winner, in Laval on Feb. 21. The Calgary, Alta. product has 127 NHL games under his belt with 28 points (15G, 13A) in those contests.

Who's Trending?

Carson Golder picked up his second assist in as many games on Dylan Coghlan’s tying goal in the third period of Sunday’s contest. The Smithers, B.C. product now has two assists in four outings with the Moose this season. It’s the third time in Golder’s AHL career the forward recorded points in back-to-back games. He has nine points (2G, 7A) in 19 career outings.