Petr Mrazek named AHL player of the week

By @MichaelCaples –

The American Hockey League announced today that Petr Mrazek is their star of the week.

The Grand Rapids Griffins’ netminder, who has spent plenty of time in the NHL as of late, made three AHL starts last week, and racked up a 3-0-0 record in the process.

Mrazek stopped 83 of the 85 shots he faced in the timeframe, good for a 0.67 goals-against average and a .976 save percentage. Two of the three wins were shutout victories, as well.

From the AHL release:

On Tuesday, Mrazek finished with 31 saves as Grand Rapids defeated Iowa, 6-2, in Des Moines. Then on Friday evening, Mrazek made 25 stops as the Griffins shut out Milwaukee, 4-0. Finally, Mrazek stopped 27 shots on Saturday night to earn his third shutout in his last four outings, a 5-0 victory at Chicago that allowed Grand Rapids to tie a franchise record with its seventh consecutive road win. Mrazek enters the new week with a shutout streak of 144:28.

A fifth-round selection by Detroit in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, Mrazek has split the 2014-15 season between Grand Rapids and the parent Red Wings. In 11 AHL appearances with the Griffins, Mrazek has a record of 8-2-0 with a 2.07 goals-against average, a .924 save percentage and three shutouts; he has also gone 13-5-1 (2.55, .909, 1 SO) in 20 NHL contests with Detroit. The 23-year-old native of Ostrava, Czech Republic, backstopped the Griffins to a Calder Cup championship as a rookie in 2013, playing every minute of their 24-game postseason run, and was voted a Second Team AHL All-Star in 2013-14.