Keep talking myself in and out of this theory, but is this the biggest win of the season?
Not necessarily most decisive, not necessarily turning-point, but, you know, here’s a team that had beat them twice, once a no-contest here, once this month out there in a game far more decisive than the 5-3 score.
And yeah, the Penguins had guys up. But so does Bridgeport. And they shut WBS down. Morrison makes some big saves again, the defense and penalty kill get the job done, and the offense works hard and creates some solid goals.
“All the games we’ve been playing, we’ve been playing as a team,” Morrison said. “We’re working hard at doing the little things. The goaltenders have been playing well. … It’s a competition. He wants to play well; I want to play well.”
Hard to argue with any of that.
They’ve scored 18 goals in five games since Tambellini and Nielsen have been gone, too. It’s a fascinating time to watch this team.
Oh, and then Scott Ford fought Dennis Bonvie…
(BTW, some kind of production issues today, so some of you may get the story in print, and some of you may not. It’ll be online, though.)
BRIDGEPORT
F: Regier-Walter-Jackman (A)
Bentivoglio-Smith-Okposo
Pitton-Colliton-Keith
Bourne/Morency
D: Fata-Ford
Fraser-Spiller (A)
Sertich-Wotton (C)
WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON
F: Stone (A)-McLean-Daoust
Gove-Brent (A)-Wallace
(D’Aversa-scratch)-Rank-Bonvie
Bissonnette-Letestu-Filewich
D: Goligoski-Engelland
Ardelan-Lovejoy
Nasreddine-Lannon (A)
Referee Ghislain Hebert worked his first Bridgeport game.
Apologies to Mark Letestu, whom I’ve been calling Crandall Letetsu. (It took me a while not to call Tom Kostopoulos “Kotsopoulos,” too.)
Prescout. Hugh Jessiman had the Gordie Howe hat trick. Marcel Hossa is in town.
49-10? It’s like a Patriots game. (A Patriots regular-season game, of course.)
Nygel Pelletier was busy in a wild one at Binghamton.
Richard Zednik talks — and isn’t that amazing in itself.
Neat stuff as seen on The Map Room: Watch Canada divide itself up with the Historical Atlas of Canada.
You heard of this kid Kyle Manuilow up at Norwich Free Academy? Last night he made 68 saves, so the reports go, to beat a pretty good Bolton/Coventry/Lyman Memorial team 5-2.
And I’ve been here too long. It’s even longer for Cliff and his gang, who made that changeover work (he also wanted to mention the cleaning crew, led by Latoya Thatcher and Harold Roberts). So good night.