Where’s Frederic Cloutier when you need him?*/**

So at the end of today’s skate, the team huddled up by the visitors’ bench as usual for their post-practice chat. Jack Capuano looked over to Peter Mannino and said something, and the rest of the team cheered and tapped their sticks.

Which all goes only to confirm what Chris Botta and Greg Logan wrote earlier this morning.

(Capuano wouldn’t actually confirm that, though. (This organization is fascinating.) So he certainly wasn’t speculating on what might happen with his own goaltending tandem if Mannino were to stay up. (Strictly for the historical fun, as a throwback to the last time the Sound Tigers’ goaltending tandem took over the Island, we suggest a PTO for Gregg Naumenko or Nick Boucher.))

Edit: Although maybe that won’t be necessary, as Greg Logan reports that Wade Dubielewicz has signed with the Islanders.

Whatever bug is going around has caught up to Tomas Marcinko now. He didn’t skate. It looked as if he would have been between Jason Pitton and Junior Lessard this morning; the Smith-McLean-Iggulden line was back together, as was Bentivoglio-Walter-Joensuu; Capuano said they’d evaluate everything, line-combo-wise and power-play-combo-wise, later today.

Correcting my flawed wondering, Lessard pointed out that he was Chicago’s 320-game guy, so he had the exemption.

Tip of cap to Marty Roos on Win 500, and how funny that, again, one of his grandsons has a day to get him a milestone victory. Ten years later, that 1999 state final — five overtimes over two days and one disallowed power-play goal — might still be, in a lot of ways, the greatest game I’ve ever seen.

And RIP, Ricardo Montalban.

*–A: Italy.
**–OK, this is just creepy.

Michael Fornabaio

Where’s Frederic Cloutier when you need him?*/**

So at the end of today’s skate, the team huddled up by the visitors’ bench as usual for their post-practice chat. Jack Capuano looked over to Peter Mannino and said something, and the rest of the team cheered and tapped their sticks.

Which all goes only to confirm what Chris Botta and Greg Logan wrote earlier this morning.

(Capuano wouldn’t actually confirm that, though. (This organization is fascinating.) So he certainly wasn’t speculating on what might happen with his own goaltending tandem if Mannino were to stay up. (Strictly for the historical fun, as a throwback to the last time the Sound Tigers’ goaltending tandem took over the Island, we suggest a PTO for Gregg Naumenko or Nick Boucher.))

Edit: Although maybe that won’t be necessary, as Greg Logan reports that Wade Dubielewicz has signed with the Islanders.

Whatever bug is going around has caught up to Tomas Marcinko now. He didn’t skate. It looked as if he would have been between Jason Pitton and Junior Lessard this morning; the Smith-McLean-Iggulden line was back together, as was Bentivoglio-Walter-Joensuu; Capuano said they’d evaluate everything, line-combo-wise and power-play-combo-wise, later today.

Correcting my flawed wondering, Lessard pointed out that he was Chicago’s 320-game guy, so he had the exemption.

Tip of cap to Marty Roos on Win 500, and how funny that, again, one of his grandsons has a day to get him a milestone victory. Ten years later, that 1999 state final — five overtimes over two days and one disallowed power-play goal — might still be, in a lot of ways, the greatest game I’ve ever seen.

And RIP, Ricardo Montalban.

*–A: Italy.
**–OK, this is just creepy.

Michael Fornabaio