Dunno about your feeling, but these games seem to go either way to me. They’re either so cringe-worthy that it almost hurts to watch, or they’re so crazy that they’re a blast.
This one felt like the latter.
Not that it’s fun to watch the turnovers (Jamie Fraser ended up plus-3, BTW) or the goals that you know the goalie is dying to have back (Mannino seemed to have a pretty even keel about it), but you just have no idea what’s coming next.
That’d be this one, which also helpfully featured a nice little angle in Nathan Lawson, he of the six saves and a Sound Tigers record for goals-against average and save percentage. (Wonder now if he’ll be putting those on the line tomorrow.)
It wasn’t pretty, though there were stops and starts where it kind of was. Trevor Smith and Jeremy Colliton were throwing their weight around. The Devils have some talent. After that kind of mess, both teams probably deserved one point.
You know someone had to get two, though, so at least it ended on a nice little deflection. Mark Wotton gets it, eventually. They’re tied for first place again. As goal-scorer Jesse Joensuu said, “Tigers are hot, huh?”
One way or ‘tother.
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Dustin Kohn didn’t play for most of the second and all of the rest, though he was on the bench. No details. And Thomas Harrison did not make it back from the Fritz fight. The body shots did him in, from what we heard.
Prescout, and a big night for the semi-hometown boy. (As mentioned in the comments, Steve Richmond was here Wednesday.) Kyle Wilson’s power-play goal in the third snapped an 0-for-30-something power-play skid for the Bears. Graham Mink played; rumor is Tyler Sloan may be back today.
Tim Jackman stays hot. Team can’t finish it off, though.
They appear to have (mostly) been good boys in Norfolk tonight.
From the EPHL: When you see “Nick Fotiu to appear with the Aces,” be honest: your first thought isn’t “as an assistant coach,” either, is it?
And finally, Tuesday’s weekly will bring the return of an old, storied rail feature that has been dormant for a few years, and we’re returning with a fan favorite in the hot seat. (That is, if Kimber’s interns don’t put it on the ‘Net first.)