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Carkner retires: Wednesday notes
Matt Carkner made it official today: he has retired from playing. He’ll still be around as a coach, though. So ends a 15-year pro playing career — he started the same year that the Sound Tigers …
Carkner contemplating / Kinnear in Springfield: Monday notes
At the end of the season, Matt Carkner sounded to be seriously contemplating retirement. He sounded even closer on an Ottawa radio station on Tuesday. “Never say never,” he told them, but still. …
Quine up (again): Tuesday notes
Team photo day, and Alan Quine joins the grand old tradition of the likes of Sean Bergenheim and Rob Collins: Players who will appear in the photo, totally, really, we mean it. He was called up this …
Positive options: Thursday notes
Optional, but fairly well-attended, at Wonderland. (Though with eight skating scratches, it’d be hard not to be well-attended, I guess… moving on.) Marc-Andre Cliche and Kyle Burroughs skated again, …
Carkner suspended one game
The AHL suspended Matt Carkner for Friday’s game at Providence for his second-period hit Sunday on Hershey captain Garrett Mitchell. Called a cross-checking minor at the time, it was reviewed for …
A flip or two: Thursday notes
Had the craziest dream last night about a baseball game.
[Jose Bautista's bat crashes through skylight.]
OR WAS IT???— Down Goes Brown (@DownGoesBrown) October 15, 2015 Was …
Letters, numbers… other things: Thursday notes
Status quo this morning with two days to go. Same lines. Same missing (Andrew Rowe’s a little longer term, said Brent Thompson; Connor Jones, “day-to-day, week-to-week”). Tom Nilsson’s departure …
Carkner signs AHL deal/Poulin re-ups
Told that the Sound Tigers will shortly announce a two-year AHL contract for Matt Carkner, who’ll be a veteran presence on what’s otherwise again a very young defense. Arthur Staple also reports that …
No days off: Monday notes, pre-deadline
No day off for the Sound Tigers. Brent Thompson changed plans last night and called them in for practice this morning at Wonderland. Skating, hard-working drills, more skating, more hard-working …
The Penalties: Norfolk postgame (updated)
A full postgameblog late tonight off the sixth regulation loss in a row and 13th game in a row without a regulation win. With the win, Norfolk moved up to 50 points; Bridgeport remains stuck at 48, …
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