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Who needs goalies: Wednesday notes
For a brief period this morning, Bridgeport had no fully-healthy, dressed-their-last-game goalies on the roster. Jeremy Smith practiced on the Island this morning, folks reported down there, to give …
Ramped up: Hershey postgame
Boy, that one almost boiled over. Got pretty heated, and the sideshow was fun, too. I thought maybe it settled down a bit after the major penalty kill. Ben Holmstrom disagreed. Maybe the second period …
Back to it: Charlotte postgame
His old team on the other side, a bunch of his old teammates, and Jeremy Smith came up with a big win, backing up a return to basics for his current teammates with 28 saves. “(Goalie coach) Chris …
New guys: Friday notes
Can’t tell your players without a scorecard, ATO edition: They had a special-teams-heavy practice this morning, which meant two colors (white on the power play, blue on everyone else) as opposed to …
Home standing: Syracuse postgame
Asked Chris Casto about how the team defense had come along, holding a couple of pretty good offenses in check the past two nights, including this one Sunday. A goal a game on the homestand, he …
Killing time: Belleville pregame postgame
Pre, post, inter, propter, circum, whatever. Thanks, Stan Fun game to watch, not least because I get excited when it looks like Brent Thompson’s gone to a matchup. He kind of did against Toronto for a …
Utility man: Friday notes
Tanner Fritz has arrived. He’s back on the power play, and he might kill penalties as well. This morning at least, he was between Kieffer Bellows and Steve Bernier, with Ryan Hitchcock moved with Ryan …
Regroup 2: Wednesday notes
Today’s groups into which to read way too much: Group A F: Bellows-Hitchcock-Bernier Dal Colle – Jones – Ho-Sang – Willick Turcotte-Kubiak-Kosorenkov-Hudson D: Wotherspoon-Burroughs Aho-Rathgeb …
That’s it: Providence postgame
Like Ben Holmstrom said after the mathematical end, it was a longshot. “Seventy-plus games of hard work,” the captain said, “it’s just tough to swallow.” The last time Bridgeport controlled its own …
Too soon: Providence postgame
You can’t score fourth and expect to win in this league. (I did not actually say that to the Sound Tigers I interviewed, but I did to one that I was BS’ing with in the meantime, and he rather agreed …
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