It began without a bang, that dark night in Providence, but the next night against Binghamton, that’s when Jeff Tambellini’s month began. When he came back from the NHL with that fire and that purpose and that drive.
Since that Binghamton game, Tambellini has played 15 games. And in them, he has 17 goals and nine assists. He has tied Pascal Pelletier for the league lead in goals in four fewer games.
The only Bridgeport scoring streaks longer than his current 10 games are his linemate’s 12-gamer last year, Jeff Hamilton’s 12-gamer two years ago, and Raffi Torres’ crazy 11-gamer in the playoffs.
This is turning into way too special a year for the guy.
BRIDGEPORT
F: Tambellini (A)-Nielsen-Okposo
Smith-Walter-Bentivoglio
Pitton-Colliton (A)-Keith
Brennan/Haley
D: A.Johnson-Ford
Sertich-Fraser
Kohn-Spiller (A)
(Reconstructed from the box and from common sense. This is, knock on wood, the last missed game this year. Meeting them in Philly tomorrow afternoon.)
I think this is the first 19:59 goal for the Sound Tigers that “beat the buzzer,” so to speak, though if you’ve been around long enough, you no doubt remember Steve Regier at 19:59.9 and Sean Bergenheim at 19:59.0…
No initial word on Fata. If he’s healthy, that would be his first scratch as a Sound Tiger.
Another multiple too-many-men night. That’s just scary.
Philly’s Jared Ross is out for a while after an appendectomy, Lindsay Kramer reports. Patrick Williams confirms and cryptically promises more on the Phantoms situation. Intriguing. (I’ll see what I can browbeat out of him this week.)
Star copy editor Bill Walsh lays down an interesting hockey-related comparison in this Blogslot post.
Joe Posnanski does some funky math in this post. And you know we love funky math.