Lauren Van Dam and Kimber Auerbach have a video interview posted with Howard Saffan, in which he confirms the Texas trip this season. He says no one knew that. But you guys knew it was coming.
Out in Wilkes-Barre, “this has just gone all kinds of the wrong way,” Scott Stuccio said after the Wolves scored their fourth goal of the second period. Boom. And then they kept scoring. It’s 3-0 in the series, and it can all end Friday.
Jason Krog, the broadcast noted, has tied a Wolves playoff record with 33 points. Rob Brown did it — in one more mini-round, and four more games — in the 2002 season we just revisited.
Tip of cap to the Detroit Red Wings for winning the big one. Annual rant stands.
A dual ex-files note: Rich Bocchini’s current team, Rio Grande Valley of the CHL, announced that onetime Beast of New Haven goalie Dave Lemanowicz has joined the United States Army Reserve.
It’d been about 10 years since I’d seen the 1978 Belmont. That had been the first time I’d seen it, too, after hearing about it for years. If you haven’t, really, do yourself a favor: Go now. Affirmed and Alydar… Alydar and Affirmed…. It’s like that for about a mile. Here’s the Derby, the Preakness and the Travers (in which Affirmed gets disqualified). Watch Alydar get closer and closer and closer… (That same poster has a bunch of other Affirmed-Alydar meetings, and watch them do the same thing again and again…)