"Huh?"

Barring editing, that word will appear as a stand-alone paragraph in tomorrow’s gamer.

It could probably stand alone as the gamer, too.

You couldn’t fault the early effort, but there seemed to be something missing — sense of urgency, some kind of chemistry, hard to put a finger on it. But then things got going late in the second, and they exploded in the third, and it looked like this was going to be Wednesday’s game backward: drop two, come back, win 4-2.

And then…

And then…

But then…

Nah, let’s leave it at “huh?”

BRIDGEPORT
F: Bentivoglio-Walter-Jackman (A)
Desrochers-Haskins-Keith
Smith-Mosienko-Fretter
Brennan/Morency
D: A.MacDonald-Fata (A)
Kohn-Ford
Fraser-Wotton (C)

WORCESTER
F: Packard-Cavanagh-Mink (C)
Kaspar-Eizenman-Iggulden
Fox-Armstrong-Staubitz
Valette (‘A’)-Rome-(Tremblay-scratch)
D: Evans (A)-Joslin
Walsh-Spang
Forrest-Busenburg

Mosienko and Bentivoglio swapped places early in the second. The Haskins line was going from the start. “It’s fun to play with guys like that,” Keith said. “Haskins just skates. He always makes smart plays. Desrochers has got some hands. He’s got good vision.”

Naked-eye from a distance, I’m not sure I’m sold on the Brennan kneeing major/game misconduct; didn’t look like he was trying to do anything dirty. But I didn’t see a replay or anything, and Armstrong didn’t come back, either. We’ll see what comes of it.

The Walsh goal was a quarter-second later than the Bob Nardella that sent Game 1 of the ’02 Final to overtime, the latest opponent’s tying goal in a Sound Tigers game.

So. Binghamton bails itself out a point to sit a tiebreaker behind Hershey; the Sound Tigers are one point behind that tie, even in games with the Bears and with two in hand on Bingo. (The Sens have eight overtime losses, which is more mercy points that way now than the Sound Tigers have through shootouts.) And now the Sound Tigers wait out the weekend. Mercyhurst newbie Ben Cottreau scores two to lead Albany past Wilkes-Barre…. and Mike Angelidis’ two assists make him first star. Philly wins in a shootout.

And elsewhere, it’s the Kyle Okposo Show: first pro point on a Blake Comeau goal, and the game-winner. Is there another league he can conquer? (It’s a second-game thing, I guess.)

Draft pick Tomas Marcinko got his Colts off right.

Viva el matador, sang the Kingston Trio in a song that came into my head this afternoon for some reason… Hey, can CBS get any more obscure with its abbreviations? I was sitting there last night without my bracket trying to figure out what WNTH vs. WSU was. It looked like the ratings war in some rural market.

Homeward bound… practice tomorrow, day off Sunday.

Michael Fornabaio