"What just happened here," Vol…. what, 9?

Gah, a game like this, where you talk to five people, quote four of them, and regret not getting to at least two more…

–Morrison. Hershey lamented not making it tougher for him, but he made a couple of tough saves through screens, held the fort on a scramble or two, and was beaten only on a short-handed breakaway. With your team on a four-game losing streak. He said motivation, not pressure. Looked like he played motivated.

–The glass. I thought it was Rullier who broke it — he said he did, so I’m going with it — but others say Morrison. I didn’t hear that until afterward, so I didn’t ask him. But if Rullier says he did… Either way, weird scene. Somebody’s banged up back there, they’re waiting to change the glass, ref Chris Cozzan sends Hershey to the dressing room then calls them back… Strange.

–The shots, 12-0, 17-2, 23-2. And then… “You can look at it just the opposite of the last few games,” Jack Capuano said, “15-16 shots and we come away with nothing. It’s a game of momentum, a game of emotion. I thought after the first, in the second and third, we got back to Sound Tigers hockey.”

–The first intermission, which more or less extends through the Bootland fight. I meant to mention in first edition the look he gave back to the bench after that. I also meant to ask him about it. Check the final story for Regier’s reaction, instead.

–The power play. A little tweak, moving Tambellini off the point and getting Regier in front, which set up Fraser’s goal. “Back to a basic power play,” Tambellini said. Regier made a nice play to set up his own first goal. Tambellini had four points. It clicked, 3-for-6 in the final two periods after it went 0-for-4 and was outshot 5-1 in the first .

–The penalty kill, which gets unfortunate short shrift all around. You kill 11, you’re doing something right. It sets a new team record, 11-for-11, even though a couple were broken up.

–The losing streak is over.

BRIDGEPORT
F: Tambellini (A)-Nielsen-Jackman (A)
Bentivoglio-Johnson-Bootland
Comeau-Colliton-Regier
Brennan-(A.MacDonald-scratch)-Morency
D: Fata-Spiller
Kohn-Wotton (C)
Fraser-Rullier

HERSHEY
F: Potulny-Wilson-Motzko
Bourque-Joudrey-Klepis
Laing (C)-Morgan (A)-Clymer (A)
Beagle-Gordon-(Robitaille-scratch)
D: Sloan-Pollock
McAllister-Collins
Pokulok-Hunt

This was the first time Bridgeport had skated 18 in warmup. A couple of guys were apparently banged up, and this gave them the option if they needed it to go with MacDonald.

Ryan Kinasewich is coming up for Sunday. (They wanted to keep the young kids down there and let them play, is the word.) He was one of two Grizzlies to notch hat tricks Friday, along with Michael Haley.

This was the first time Cozzan has worked a Sound Tigers game; apparently a former linesman (this looks to be from 1999-2000) who has been working with the stripes in the lower minors, if Google hasn’t let me down. By the way, he just called another penalty.

Prescouting.

Bill Ballou is back on the AHL beat after finishing up with that baseball team. And Vinny Ferraiuolo digs out a letter he never had to use here…

How’s this for a headline: “Nolan Pratt plays well, injures groin.”

They had an ad for “Camelot” at the Hershey Theater end of the month… starring Lou Diamond Phillips as King Arthur. Wow.

And finally… Bleedin’ Kansas!

Michael Fornabaio