I am curious as to the after-the-fact injury policy around this organization. For example, when Micheal Haley returns, will they tell us why, exactly, he walked around with an arm wrapped up for three or four weeks? Will they just be more accurate, saying, no, ha-ha, it wasn’t a lower-body injury to this guy; it was an upper-body injury? Will they insist Player X wasn’t hurt; he just enjoys knee braces?
Hope to find out tomorrow.
Anyway, while they skated all 17 forwards today — pluck five or six guys to play defense, and that could have been a game lineup last year — Haley and Ben Walter may or may not be ready for the weekend. They haven’t been cleared to play in a game, though they’re OK to practice, as they did today.
Lines, it was cautioned even a bit more than usual, are subject to day-to-day change, but Mark Parrish was playing with Sean Bentivoglio and Tyler Haskins today.
Meanwhile, Jonathan linked to the EPHL’s training camp rosters. Hudson Valley, somehow, plucked the two locals from Danbury’s roster, former Barlow star Chris Seifert and former New Canaan standout Eric Lind. But check out the second-to-last Mad Hatters name.
Much virtual ink has been spilled about MLB’s decision to (attempt to) play Game 5 last night. All I can say is I’m kind of glad they did: I don’t think I’ve ever seen a routine popup to second with runners on first and second where the infield-fly rule correctly wasn’t invoked. I don’t know if I ever will again. There was no such thing as “ordinary effort” in that swimming pool last night.