Fourteen years ago tonight, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers played their first game in the AHL, winning 3-0 at Rochester. It was also the first pro game for Bridgeport’s Raffi Torres, whose rookie season included a productive playoff on the way to the Calder Cup Final.
He’d been traded before the next playoffs, the first departure in a career that took him to three league finals in his first five years, seven NHL organizations in all, and, well, a heck of a lot of NHL discipline. The latest will cost him half a season, conservatively called interference and a check to the head.
The video is worth watching.