More NHL: | | | | | Before joins the , the team wanted him to get some reps with their AHL affiliate in Oklahoma City. The Ru sian netminder, who signed a one-year, $2.26 million deal last week, made his debut with the OKC Barons Friday night and it didnt go particularly well.Playing in his first live game since April 25, Bryzgalov allowed five goals on 24 shots in a losing effort against the Calgary Flames' AHL affiliate, the Abbotsford Heat. After the Oilers' new acquisition gave up a goal just 4:02 into the game, Oklahoma City went on a 3-0 run. However, Abbotsford stormed back Brandon Clarke Jersey with a pair of goals just 59 seconds apart in the second period to knot things up. The Barons then scored again to take a 4-3 lead into the third period. Abbotsford's Ben Street scored twice in the third period, however, to push his squad to a 5-4 victory.Even though its the minor leagues, the AHL is a pretty strong profe sional circuit. So Bryzgalov deserves some of the benefit of the doubt in coming off a long layover, a rather tumultuous offseason and going against guys who have been playing for more than a month.Still, this does very little to calm nerves that Bryzgalov wont offer much of an upgrade, if any over in Edmonton. With just a one-year deal at a fairly reasonable price, theres a low-risk commitment from the Oilers, but to make room, they did have to part with Ladislav Smid,depleting an already porous defense. Bryzgalov likely needs a little more time to Xavier Tillman Jersey get back into the groove, but this probably wasnt the way he wanted to introduce himself to his new organization.
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