The Worlds start Friday. The super-short list of former Sound Tigers on the registered rosters as released by the IIHF:
Canada: Calvin de Haan
Italy: Frederic Cloutier
USA: Brock Nelson, Anders Lee
Islanders draft pick Ilya Sorokin is on the Russian roster, and of course the American support staff is dotted with the locally tied.
Here’s the schedule. It’s six hours later over there than here, so those 8:15s are 2:15s. (Here again is USA Hockey’s version with TV information.)
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The AHL’s second round got going Wednesday with another Grand Rapids victory, 4-1 over Chicago. Still no Scooter Vaughan. Three games on Friday.
Andrey Pedan re-upped with Vancouver.
Meanwhile, the Milwaukee Admirals’ new ECHL affiliate is… the Norfolk Admirals. Mind blown.
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Mental Floss takes a deep, scholarly (but ultimately unscientific) dive into 13th-century lyrics to find just what that bucke was doing.
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RIP, Bruce Webster.
And RIP, Section 105’s Thomas Crispino.