Apparently the ice hadn’t gotten back to normal after the kiddies’ favorite ice tour swung through, so the boys stepped off the Harbor Yard ice and went, in full gear, up to Shelton this morning. Once there, Bentivoglio was back with Tambellini and Nielsen. Regier practiced, with Walter and Smith; he was supposed to have X-rays today to make sure it’s healing and could be in tomorrow. If not, Capuano said they’d dress the seven defensemen and maybe play one of them up front. And Pitton is ready to go.
The Canadian All-Star team is due out tomorrow. One ventures it’ll be pertinent around here.
Eurohockey points us to Joe Rullier’s signing with the Kloten (Swiss) Flyers, apparently over the weekend. Babelfish didn’t immediately provide the obligatory fun, just pulling out the tired “Bridgeport sound of tiger” bit. So I took it from German to French, then French to Greek, then Greek to English: in addition to calling him an “advocate” in place of “defenseman,” it says, “Rullier reaches already tomorrow Saturday in in the Kloten,” and it adds that Rullier apparently will play “already… adversely gencve.” Now that’s the kind of humor we demand out of our robots.
Mirtle makes a point I’ve loved for a long time: Let’s make overtime 10 minutes instead of five. (I used to say non-sudden-death, but I can take that or leave it.)
Anon asked about Morency, who’s slowly working back… he’s skating on his own right now (hampered a bit by a knee, which is last-year surgery compounded by the rest/rust) and could skate a bit with the team in the next week or so. They’re not expecting him back before February.
Less than 48 hours until the media horde descends. Good gravy. Oh, right: Okposo will apparently wear No. 12.