Still two games Friday

Toronto survives with a little 6-1 win at home to send the series back to Rosemont. Back in the familiar conference, Stephen Dixon haunted his old team and scored two goals to give the Bucs a 3-2 lead going to Wilkes-Barre. No Aubin again, but McKenna got second star on a 27-save performance.

The Worcester All-Star Game will be Jan. 26; the skills contest is the day before, at 4 p.m., which is kind of nice. Rosters will be announced later.

Doing some cleaning-out of some of the corners of my room, some stuff that hasn’t been done since pre-concussion. Among the things found in one of the strata: Notes from Game 5 of the 2002 Calder Cup Final. Might be good for an anniversary.

Michael Fornabaio