Simon Despres scored on his own rebound at 12:08 of double overtime, so the Penguins live to fight another day. Game 6 is Friday on the Rock. The Penguins survive a wacky goal from the neutral zone early on to do it.
Abbotsford and Toronto are playing Game 4 out in B.C. at this writing.
There’s a game in Bridgeport on Wednesday, you might’ve heard. There’ll be at least one familiar face.
Kurt Kleinendorst won’t be back as Binghamton coach, Joy Lindsay reports.
At the Worlds, Finland actually gave up a goal — couple of them — but Valteri Filppula scored twice in the third to make it a 5-2 win over the Swiss. Jesse Joensuu got an assist, then a two-and-10 for a check to the head/neck. Three goals for former Hartford Wolf Pack forwards: two for Jarkko Immonen for the Finns, and one for Andres Ambuhl.
Wins with some ease for Russia over Germany and Latvia over Italy. And Kazakhstan took a 2-0 lead, but Belarus came back with three in the second, the first short-handed for Konstantin Koltsov (speaking of Penguins overtime heroics in elimination games), beating another onetime Wolf Packer, Vitali Yeremeyev.
The U.S. gets Belarus next, on Thursday.
The Chicago Blackhawks fired former Norfolk coach Mike Haviland, who was one of their assistants. Scapegoat, or sacrificial lamb?*
And RIP, Maurice Sendak and Jerry McMorris, and Stacy Robinson.
| TEAM | Old | New |
| TEX | Jeff Pyle (4/16) | — |
| SPR | Rob Riley (4/16) | — |
| BIN | Kurt Kleinendorst (5/8) | — |
*-“And if I can obtain for you these animals?” —1F10**
**-It has been way too long since we did that.