Whatever happened to....Alexander Pechurskiy?

by Hooks Orpik on Feb 10, 2010 1:24 PM EST in Pittsburgh Penguins Prospects

We all remember three and half weeks ago when Alexander Pechurskiy was thrust into the scene in a game against Vancouver. The 19 year old acquitted himself very well, making 12 saves on 13 shots and stopping an embarassing game from getting any worse.

So how's the youngster (who only got to North America in December with the Russian WJC team) doing back at the Tri-City Americans of the Western Hockey League?

Perhaps running off of adreline from his big league experience, Pechurskiy gave up 2, 0, 3, 0 and 2 goals against in his first five games back in junior. His record would only be 3-2 over that stretch, but just from the numbers it looked like he played well, posted some strong save percentages. His last game though, AP gave up three goals on eight shots in the games first 12 minutes and got a hook.

Pechurskiy is getting a lot of playing time for the Americans, who are in first place in the Western Conference. Here's his stat line:

	GP	GS	MIN	W	L	O	GA	GAA	SA	SV	SV%	SO
Alexander Pechurskiy	12	12	630	7	3	1	20	1.90	293	273	.932	3

(more updates on the Penguin prospects, like we did earlier in November here and here during the Olympic break)

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You just made Alex Stitch one happy lady.

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by FrankD on Feb 10, 2010 1:54 PM EST reply actions

good for him

was wondering what became of him

by CGNC on Feb 10, 2010 3:22 PM EST reply actions

You know, you all can make fun of me for loving this kid, but you wait and see, when he gets called up, or gets traded to another team and starts shutting teams down, we’ll see who’s laughing.

On a more serious note, good to see his numbers are still strong, but obviously there is some room for improvement. Maybe it is adrenaline, but it makes sense to be able to look at the situation of “Hey, I played an NHL game and did pretty good. These games are a cake walk.”

A bee in a bird's nest never made no honey, and a bird in a hive sang no song.

by AlexStitch on Feb 10, 2010 3:32 PM EST reply actions