So for 48 of the first 55 minutes, my tentative lead was something about Kurtis McLean.
You know, he doesn’t get the call from the league, and now he doesn’t get the goal from Terry Koharski (it was announced as Iggulden’s).
That one was quickly rectified. We’ll have to see how people feel about the other one as players drop off the Canadian side.
But yeah, after the first 55 minutes, things kind of changed a bit. I blame myself, because I had just written myself a note about how if it stayed the same, all three goalies would have a… you know*.
And then, hoo boy.
Neither Nikiforov nor Capuano seemed too agitated about the call, though both noted Maxim Noreau turned before the hit that turned out to be from behind. With the cut, it turns into a major, which is a game misconduct, and away this game goes.
“The PK has done a great job all year,” Iggulden said. “It’s kept us in a lot of games and won us a lot of games.”
It bent in 82 harsh seconds. It finished regulation up and killed off the 25 seconds that carried into overtime.
They got two points. The point they gave up could only matter in June. Hey, at least you saw a couple of team records fall.
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Speaking of flying across the country, Nikiforov’s flight last night was canceled, so he had to fly in today. He was up at 5 a.m. and arrived at 3:30 p.m. (Sounded like it was his dad’s birthday?)
MacDonald and Kohn were almost — not quite — strictly matched against Locke. They kept him really quiet until the penalty kill. “I thought our D, for the most part, all played well,” Capuano said. “At times they could have been a little more physical, but overall, they made high-percentage plays.”
Of all the kooky miscellaneous records I keep, I think that fastest-goal-into-a-third-period one was the oldest (Juraj Kolnik, Dec. 29, 2001, at Portland, 15 seconds). There is actually one Sound Tigers goal that was scored earlier than McLean’s into a period, but it’s playoffs, so its counting is dicey: Justin Mapletoft, Game 3 at Hamilton in the 2002 Eastern Conference Final, :09 second period. The fastest-three-goals one only goes back two years.
Houston has John Adams and a couple of Hamiltons. Very patriotic.
Jaime Sifers’ latest journal entry on the Leafs’ site.
Game sheets from the 1930s? Oh, man. I may never do work again. (Unless I can blog about all that for money.)
Stefan Legein is coming back. The Columbus Dispatch has a bit with him.
(I shouldn’t say “bit,” should I?)
Also from the Dispatch: “Raffi Torres is skating like a monster.”
*-I actually don’t blame myself: I even used “you know” in the note.