I’m enamored with my gamer lead, which no doubt means it’s insipid. Probably should have saved it for the blog. Oh well.
How about I say something equally insipid here: I kind of liked Bridgeport’s first period.
Yeah, even as they didn’t get a shot until 11 minutes in. Yeah, even as they trailed 1-0 on a fortuitous-bounce goal. Yeah, even as they got outshot 13-6. Yeah, even as they got pinned deep.
They stood up to it. They limited the damage. They came out and put some pressure on themselves, even if they weren’t getting the shots to Scott Munroe.
“They came out flying,” Jack Capuano said. “They’re a high-powered team. They had a lot of zone time, but we limited some of their chances pretty well.”
End result, Ben Walter said, was that Philly was trying to keep up with them by the end.
Two points is two points at this point, so hey, happiness all around. This sure seemed to be a better night than Wednesday, to hear how Frans Nielsen described Wednesday. You play a good game like that against Philly, even an injury-depleted Philly, and you run out with the tie win.
BRIDGEPORT
F: Tambellini (A)-Nielsen-Okposo
Smith-Walter-Bentivoglio
Keith-Colliton (A)-Bourne
Brennan/Haley
D: Fata-A.Johnson
Kohn-Spiller (A)
Sertich-Fraser
PHILADELPHIA
F: Zingoni-Potulny (A)-Ruzicka
Greentree-Matsumoto-Laliberte
Grant (A)-Cabana-Powe
Beaulieu-(Grenier-scratch)-Boulerice
D: Jonsson-Gauthier (C)
Bartulis-Guenin
Parent-Anderson
The usual leather-lunged (but usually funny) fan wasn’t there in front of the press box tonight. In his place was a leather-lunged fan who inexplicably kept yelling at Matthew Spiller on the bench. No idea. And not nearly as funny.
Pete Zingoni is 6-1-7 in nine career games against the Sound Tigers. And that’s nothing compared to his 8-5-13 in 10 games against Binghamton. (He’s also 5-3-8 in 16 against Norfolk, and he has some big numbers in limited games against the three Massachusetts teams.)
As noted by a faithful e-mailer, the Feb. 16 home game against Wilkes-Barre is now set for 8 p.m. Fairfield U. has a women’s/men’s doubleheader beginning at noon. Who else is rooting for two quintuple-overtime games?
Cole Jarrett is now with Malmo. Babelfish doesn’t do Swedish, and try as I might, I still can’t read it. A free translator I got through google called CJ a “Canadian hillocks” and was otherwise no help at all. (“Sportchef” Peter Andersson is the onetime Ranger and Panther.)
Darryl Bootland feature from up in Portland. He seems to like it there.
Peter Ferraro is one of the captains at the ECHL All-Star Game.
Today is the 50th anniversary of the night Willie O’Ree broke the color barrier in the NHL. Here’s a nice Q-n-A from David Amber of ESPN. And you know we would be remiss: former Nighthawk.
Sidney Crosby has a high ankle sprain. Ouch.
Good gravy. As noted by one of the esteemed gentlemen down the row from me, this is what happens when you can’t lay a hand on a guy anymore. He didn’t say that happily, either.
There’s a shopping center down the block from my hotel that has both an OfficeMax and a CompUSA. It’s like I’m on the Post Road in 1999. I’m gonna go father down to look for a Caldor and a Woolworth’s.
Bronx-raised Colin Powell is dropping the puck Monday on the Island.
And RIP, chess nut Bobby Fischer.