It’s cold

Ah, having a Tuesday off…. then doing the weekly stuff in one day…

Providence’s Pascal Pelletier is the AHL Player of the Month for December. If you like to chew that stuff over: Pelletier was 13-9-22 and plus-12 in 15 games; Tambellini was 13-5-18 (4 PPG, 3 SHG) and plus-2 in 11 games. Tambellini isn’t listed as a nominee.

By the way, if you read the story today and wondered: Three Sound Tigers had scored 10 goals in nine games. Jeff Hamilton was the logical first guess, and he did it, Nov. 9-29, 2003; he had three other nine-in-nine runs, one of which overlapped with the 10-in-9. Sean Bergenheim actually had 10 goals in eight games, ending with his four-goal night on Feb. 22, 2006. And Dave Roche was the first, Nov. 18-Dec. 16, 2001.

Back to today, Walter was back with Regier and Bootland; Colliton with Kinasewich and Smith. Brennan has a couple of days off but will be back for the weekend; Jason Pitton practiced in that spot and was looking pretty good. More in the notebook.

Kinasewich’s PTO is up in the middle of the weekend. It sounds like they’re talking about getting him signed to another one.

Mark French is an assistant in Hershey.

How about those jerseys at the Winter Classic? Real Sabres, nifty Pens powder-blues? Sweet. So sweet I’m almost tempted to lift my Edge-Boycott and call ’em “sweaters” this time. (Hartford-Bridgeport at Kennedy Stadium. What do you think?)

It’s USA-Canada Friday, 2 p.m., in the semis at the WJC after Canada beat Finland today. Russia-Sweden in the other half. (The NY Times blog notes that the coaching matchup today in Russia-Czech Republic was an all-former-Rangers affair, Milo Horava vs. Sergei Nemchinov.)

Infonaut has a link to a Toronto Star package on language in the Greater Toronto Area. Some fascinating stuff.

Michael Fornabaio