Rearrangement pre-Norfolk: Monday notes

The past two games, C.J. Stretch had sat late after penalties. His spot on that line was occupied by Alan Quine this morning, between Cory Conacher and Harry Zolnierczyk (Mike Halmo: upper body, day-to-day*). Peter Sivak was up with Kael Mouillierat and Colin McDonald.

“It’s a discipline issue,” Brent Thompson said after he’d skated the heck out of them at Wonderland. “I personally love C.J. Stretch. He’s got a lot to offer. He’s also got a lot to learn.”

The team’s off tomorrow, though taking teddy bears to local hospitals.

Brett Gallant said he was waiting for the Teddy Bear Toss to score a goal. All about the kids, you know. Had they had one in October, he’d have scored then. (So they should have one every night, Kevin Poulin said.)

A couple of people mentioned remembering a goal seven seconds into a period. One remembered it being Tony Romano, but we both wound up checking independently; it wasn’t. So I asked the guy who probably remembers the most about recent Sound Tigers history, Jamie Palatini. He dug up this blog post about a goal seven seconds into the second period… that was disallowed. Perhaps that’s what we’re remembering. Perhaps I’m missing something else.

No Heatley/Bryzgalov fun for Bridgeport: Both called up. Jason LaBarbera was sent back down.

Dallas Eakins is out in Edmonton; OKC coach Todd Nelson reportedly joins Craig MacTavish on the bench, with Gerry Fleming taking over the Barons.

A tip of cap to AHL linesman Bob Fyrer, retiring at 40 in large part because of concussions.

And via Sherry Ross on Twitter, a pretty remarkable mashup of Darlene Love appearances on Letterman singing “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).”**

*-Though that seems too often have been code for “concussion” from these teams, our understanding is that neither Halmo nor John Persson has one. For what it’s worth.
**-Do not follow this link. At least until Dec. 26. (I’ve been meaning to look it up for a while.)

Michael Fornabaio