AHL Goalie News — Wednesday, Nov. 4

Awards

• Manchester Monarchs Jonathan Bernier won Goaltender of the Month for the  (TheAHL.com) and Rochester Amerks Alexander Salak won Rookie of the Month (TheAHL.com).
• Hopefully you didn’t miss IGM’s own Scott Slingsby‘s fantastic look at Bernier’s mask earlier this week.
• Abbotsford Heat’s Leland Irving was named AHL Player of the Week last week, as well. (TheAHL.com)

Features

• Ed Belfour, who is coaching Peoria Rivermen goalies Ben Bishop and Hannu Toivonen, uses Vladislav Tretiak‘s Russian goaltending techniques to train his new charges. (Peoria Journal Star)
• A couple of mask features here on Tyler Weiman of Lake Erie (The Goalie Guild) and Hershey Bears’ goalies’ masks now, with plans to look back through the years at previous masks (Stack the Pads).
• Jason Bacashihua‘s glove is a difference-maker for Hershey (Lebanon Daily News) and he’s making the competition for goaltending in the Capitals’ organization pretty stiff with his excellent play (Bleacher Report).

• Here’s some video from Austin and the Texas Stars about goalie Matt Climie and his roommate, winger Ray Sawada. I had to laugh at the end when he says they’re playing the “Minnesota Moose” this weekend. Well, it does start with M and is a place up north that snows a lot. So, that’s close enough.

From the Blogs

• The Bleacher Report thinks San Antonio Rampage and #3 goalie in the Phoenix system, Al Montoya, should get a chance to back up Ilya Bryzgalov in lieu of Jason LaBarbera. (Bleacher Report)

Transactions

Patrick Lalime pulled a groin and is out for Buffalo, so Jhonas Enroth has been called up from Portland to back up Ryan Miller. (The Canadian Press)

Anton Khudobin has been returned to the Houston Aeros from the Minnesota Wild, and Brett Jaeger has been returned to the CHL Texas Brahmas from Houston as a result. (The Third Intermission)

Chris Beckford-Tseu‘s time filling in for an injured Tyler Plante with Rochester has ended and he’s returning to ECHL Florida. (Let’s Go Amerks)

Braden Holtby was sent to ECHL Charlotte after a brief stint with Hershey.

Jaroslav Janus was released by the Norfolk Admirals and will return to the OHL Erie Otters.

Pretty Pictures

Photographer and friend of IGM, Chris Jerina, sent us this great shot of Rockford Ice Hogs goalie Corey Crawford making a blocker save, and probably avoiding some ringing ears, in a game against Milwaukee on Saturday. Thanks, Chris!