"It was dawn before he came up with the answer."*

Didn’t sleep much at the Days Inn Shrewsbury (not because of the hotel — recommended, just remember to have them take the safe off your bill), and sometime in the wee hours something struck me. The two-doubles room I was in, the room door was in a little alcove in the hallway, set back a few feet. I think every time I’ve seen that, what’s on the other side of that wall? The bathroom. Not this room. In that area was one of the beds. The bathroom was in the back of the room, which doesn’t seem unusual if rooms are back-to-back, but in this case it was against the window (though there wasn’t a window in the bathroom here). Hmm. The things that keep me up at night.

Oh my goodness, did I say all that out loud? I mean…

Anyway, nothing changed here except the starting goaltender; the four Black Aces of the moment skated this morning. On the other side, Thomas Greiss continues to play every minute.

LINEUPS
BRIDGEPORT
F: Smith-McLean-Iggulden
Comeau-Colliton-Jackman (A)
Bentivoglio-Hennigar-Joensuu
Fritz-Marcinko-Pitton
D: Skinner-Callahan (A)
Fraser-Wotton (C)
Kohn-MacDonald
G: Mannino
(Danis)

WORCESTER
F: Cavanagh-Vesce (C)-Kaspar
McGinn-Zalewski-Morris
Fenton-Armstrong-Jones
F.McLaren-Fox-Westgarth
D: K.McLaren-Demers
Moore-Joslin (A)
Traverse-Buckley (A)
G: Greiss
(Jones)
R — St. Laurent. L — T.Whittemore, Costello.

*-Philip Roth, The Great American Novel.

Michael Fornabaio