from Peter J. Wallner of Mlive,

The defenseman's performance was uneventful in a game memorable for a series of fights, including at least three after the Griffins' first goal with just under five minutes left in the first. Those occurred a minute after another fight.

Cholowski had one shot and a zero plus/minus for the night. He was on the ice for Eric Tangradi's goal in the second period and an empty netter by the Moose in the closing minutes....

"I thought he did fine ... maybe a few jitters here and there but he made some plays out there," Nelson said. "When you have seven defensemen, sometimes it's hard to get in a rhythm but with what happened, after we scored our first goal, I dropped down to five, so he got some ice there.

"But I think it was just a situation where he was kind of thrown into the fire, (we) wanted to see what he could do, but I thought he was fine."

Cholowski wasn't on the ice for the fights, but the 20-year-old acknowledged a different level of play from juniors.

"It's a little more chippy. It's pro hockey," he said. "The guys are bigger, they're older and they want to play hard. You're getting slashed, you're getting whacked, you're getting hit, cross checked. So, I got to get used to it and give some of it back."

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Wallner's recap of the GRR l6-3 loss to the Manitoba Moose.