In the penalty

On the other hand, imagine what things would be like now if Bridgeport had not started 16-for-16 on the penalty kill.

The Tigers are 16-for-17 now. It took three five-on-threes in 14 minutes and an extra-long shift to do it, but the Devils scored on the power play and won the game.

If you feel like playing the glass-half-full thing.

“This is the time we want to mold our identity,” said Mark Wotton, who didn’t seem to want to play that glass-half-full thing.

“When we take those kinds of penalties, we can’t get three, four lines out there consistently,” he’d also said a little earlier.

Wotton, Regier and Spiller had killed off the last two-man advantage, a 42-second job. But they got stuck out there. Lowell scored 25 seconds later.

Penalties can lead to disjointedness; sometimes, even to more penalties. But these just came in a bunch. No penalties in almost 38 minutes; six in the next 14. It doesn’t work well.

Still, it’s three games.

It’s in first edition but not second: The only time Bridgeport has ever been 3-0 was 2004-05. Those streaky Sound Tigers lost six of their next seven, then crumbled under injuries in December.

So maybe you don’t need to be 3-0.

LINEUPS
BRIDGEPORT
F: Bentivoglio-Walter-Jackman (A)
Tambellini (A)-Nielsen-Comeau
Regier-Johnson-Colliton
Labelle/Brennan
D: Fraser-Wotton (C)
Fata-A. MacDonald
Kohn-Spiller

LOWELL
F: Murphy (A)-Vrana-Marshall (A)
Clarke-Viuhkola-Gionta
Khomutov-Mondou-Tallackson
Ryznar-(Mark Pandolfo-scratch)-Mike Pandolfo
D: Fraser (A)-Magnan
Malmivaara – Grand-Pierre
Ruggeri-Moran

Jeff Tambellini was looking forward to sleep after five games in six days.

Robert Nilsson gets sent to Springfield.

Greg Logan sat down with Chris Simon Friday and had this today.

The lockout is just a gift that keeps on giving, isn’t it? Yeesh.

Ray Emery makes a cool 46 saves… and wasn’t the first star. Brian Boucher continues on.

Darren Haydar scored his first NHL goal. Eric Godard scored his first of the season.

Realized today while writing a story that’ll go tomorrow: I know way more about the anatomy of the neck and its bones than I ever wanted to know; still, I don’t know nearly enough.

And finally, my good home Compy, which rolled over on I-84 with me, which kept its screen connected even when the wires came loose, which fought through two power-switch fractures and the popping off of at least the E, N, G, H, A, control, left-alt and backspace keys: Compy froze up last night in the middle of said story. Won’t even start back up; spitting out post codes (and at least two different ones, too). We’ll try some emergency surgery this weekend and see if it helps, but those beeps might just be a tolling bell… Back up your data, folks. And pat your computer on the back once or twice. (No, wait, that’d be weird. Would it? Aw, heck.)

Michael Fornabaio