Pardon the hit-n-run notes off this one, which went away early in the third (and the shots really didn’t feel like 15-7 in the period and 36-30 for the game, but…). The head is pounding.
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Jack Capuano had no transactions to report, goaltender or otherwise.
In the last four and a half minutes of the second, the top-three lines became:
Smith-McLean-Lessard
Joensuu-Walter-Iggulden (looked more like Iggulden-Walter-Joensuu in the third)
Bentivoglio-Haskins-Nikiforov
“We weren’t getting too much going,” Capuano said. “The power play, not much was happening. Two or three shifts in, we scored a goal.”
Lessard was with Joensuu and Walter on the second power-play unit, which stayed together even after the change, as did Smith-McLean-Iggulden. The Sound Tigers got seven shots on the PP but maybe one of them — a Lessard shot in tight after Walter skated to the net and dropped him the puck — was really memorable. Maybe the most memorable PP thing was a couple of solid Chris Lee keep-ins, one of which was the best swinging bunt I’ve seen since September.
Division notes: wow, and double wow.
Jaime Sifers was sent back to the Marlies.
Jonathan has a very interesting note from Wheeling. (Very interesting if you hung out at the corner of George and Orange a decade ago, anyway.)
And finally, terrifying news from The Onion.