You know you’ve got problems when the folks behind the visiting net are chanting that they’d rather have their buddy Jamie Koharski.

My notes say Francois St. Laurent wasn’t even noticeable his last Bridgeport game, March 13 at Springfield. My memory still always strays to this, but he had been a lot less conspicuous lately.

Until Sunday.

There were those two Albany five-on-threes midway through the second, after Bridgeport’s first. Those get lost a bit, but they were big. “We give them any more momentum, it’d be a different game,” Peter Mannino said. They killed them off.

And then began the fun, with the spearing (was it Callahan? Not sure he was even sure) and the hooking and the hooking and the hooking. And then Bridgeport finally, finally scored a couple after almost five minutes of two-man advantage.

(Give him this: He got the major right. The rules say you serve the major first, and the five minutes was up by that time — it was into the minor.)

“Just getting pucks to the net,” Andrew MacDonald said. “The five-on-three, you’ve got to work it around and find the open guy and get shotsthrough. We were able a couple of times. The forwards did a great job down low, banging in rebounds.”

Geordie Kinnear had had enough by the (record-tying) fifth power-play goal. Can’t tell you the last time I saw a coach get tossed mid-game. At least without tossing benches or stick racks.

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There are lots of complicated ways Bridgeport can win a tiebreaker (overtime-loss points are involved), but we’ll worry about them if they come. The important things, if you want to sort them yourself, are that, in season series, the Bears beat Bridgeport, the Sound Tigers beat the Penguins, and the Pens beat the Bears. And, as noted earlier, if things broke the only way that would produce a pure three-way tie at 104/48, then Wilkes-Barre/Scranton would win the division.

Killing penalties and working the power play, MacDonald was on the ice for 29:24 of the 60-minute game. In the second period, he played 12:39.

Tim Jackman won the Islanders’ Bob Nystrom Award.

The later it gets, it seems, the less likely that the Sarnia boys are coming here.

Jamie Fraser=406.

Day off for these guys tomorrow. Enjoy the ballgames, if it doesn’t snow.

You know you’ve got problems when the folks behind the visiting net are chanting that they’d rather have their buddy Jamie Koharski.

My notes say Francois St. Laurent wasn’t even noticeable his last Bridgeport game, March 13 at Springfield. My memory still always strays to this, but he had been a lot less conspicuous lately.

Until Sunday.

There were those two Albany five-on-threes midway through the second, after Bridgeport’s first. Those get lost a bit, but they were big. “We give them any more momentum, it’d be a different game,” Peter Mannino said. They killed them off.

And then began the fun, with the spearing (was it Callahan? Not sure he was even sure) and the hooking and the hooking and the hooking. And then Bridgeport finally, finally scored a couple after almost five minutes of two-man advantage.

(Give him this: He got the major right. The rules say you serve the major first, and the five minutes was up by that time — it was into the minor.)

“Just getting pucks to the net,” Andrew MacDonald said. “The five-on-three, you’ve got to work it around and find the open guy and get shotsthrough. We were able a couple of times. The forwards did a great job down low, banging in rebounds.”

Geordie Kinnear had had enough by the (record-tying) fifth power-play goal. Can’t tell you the last time I saw a coach get tossed mid-game. At least without tossing benches or stick racks.

—-

There are lots of complicated ways Bridgeport can win a tiebreaker (overtime-loss points are involved), but we’ll worry about them if they come. The important things, if you want to sort them yourself, are that, in season series, the Bears beat Bridgeport, the Sound Tigers beat the Penguins, and the Pens beat the Bears. And, as noted earlier, if things broke the only way that would produce a pure three-way tie at 104/48, then Wilkes-Barre/Scranton would win the division.

Killing penalties and working the power play, MacDonald was on the ice for 29:24 of the 60-minute game. In the second period, he played 12:39.

Tim Jackman won the Islanders’ Bob Nystrom Award.

The later it gets, it seems, the less likely that the Sarnia boys are coming here.

Jamie Fraser=406.

Day off for these guys tomorrow. Enjoy the ballgames, if it doesn’t snow.