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Free agents week begins
Katie Strang tweeted this morning that six Islanders Group II players have been tendered their qualifying offers, which will make them restricted free agents come Friday. Most notably for Bridgeport …
Hisey to Austria
EHC Linz announces it signed Rob Hisey, reuniting him with former Springfield coach Rob Daum. …
A moment of silence (after the barn rocks)
The math has been working against them since… well, since very early in the season. Even at 18-14-1-2, a set of numbers that may be ingrained in my head for a long time, they were only on an 89-point …
That kind of year
…where you take the little moments when you can, when even those moments come with an asterisk, when the moment you get on the positive side of the injury ledger, more come along. But hey, let’s start …
Backchecking
So the flow of the day is something like: –Koskinen: Took the skate; head OK, everything else, not so much. –Hisey, Ullstrom, Olson good to go. –After the skate, word that Lawson and DiBenedetto …
The inexpressibly fantastic
Do you know the Red Smith column after the Shot Heard ‘Round the World, the Bobby Thomson home run that finished off the Giants’ comeback from 3,000 games behind to win the pennant? “The art of …
Whole lot of fight
One shot beat Mikko Koskinen tonight, and it was from a bad angle, while his teammates were without sticks, clutching Justin DiBenedetto’s stick himself. The 42 others didn’t beat Koskinen tonight, a …
Going to Syracuse
If you weren’t here earlier, the breaking news of the day: Mark Wotton is the Eastern Conference all-star captain. The team had an early practice and got on the road for Syracuse. Rob Hisey skated in …
Optionalblog
Lots of bumps and bruises, so they went with an optional skate this morning. They had 10 and two plus two goalies — or, since Dustin Friesen was one, you could say 11 and one plus two — for about 45 …
Reese, and other pieces
The Sound Tigers had seven defensemen on the ice this morning, and then Dylan Reese showed up in Shelton at about 10:45, sent down from the Islanders. You wouldn’t think they’d keep eight defensemen, …
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