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Getting real: Thursday notes

Today was the day it really started feeling like the Sound Tigers season. Partly because they pretty much had their team on the ice for the first time after yesterday’s team-building day. Partly

Local ties: Monday notes (updated Tuesday)

Dallas Eakins gets himself promoted to Anaheim, a job for which Lane Lambert had been considered a candidate. So a former Beast of New Haven gets the nod over a former Sound Tigers assistant. It all

Way No. 42: Laval postgame

“Team game. Team game,” Christopher Gibson said after they got two points and ran. “It wasn’t pretty on our part all the time. We battled hard. “This is how we have to play. We have to find a way.”

All hands on deck: Tuesday notes

Last day of winter, literally and in at least two ways figuratively (MLB tomorrow in Japan, and high school hockey final tonight)… though the Sound Tigers play on, so winter goes on with it here.

Gibson back: Wednesday notes

Interrupting CTHK and SHU… The Islanders announced this afternoon they’ve sent Christopher Gibson back to the Sound Tigers. Sounds, then, like good news for Robin Lehner, and Bridgeport gets its

‘I have to go over here now’*: Thursday notes

F Jan Kovar signs PTO with @AHLBruins. On ice for today's practice— Mark Divver (@MarkDivver) October 18, 2018 Well then. Agent Allan Walsh tweets that Kovar will “PLAY games” (his emphasis)

Letters, numbers, alumni: Thursday notes

Real Numbers have at last arrived on the Sound Tigers’ helmets for practice (left out that Sebastian Aho is now 28 both here and up in the Show). What had been low numbers the past couple of years

Lines for now: Monday notes

This is all subject to change, as you know well. Roster deadline on the Island is tomorrow. Moves to come (Tom Kuhnhackl is on waivers, for instance). But Lines To Read Too Much Into, Monday edition:

One week: Hartford (exh.) postgame

If not exactly the way they drew it up — lots of time in their own end, not a lot of consistent offense — Brent Thompson was still smiling afterward. “I thought guys were focused, for the most part.

Getting old: Thursday notes

Only good way to go back to work after vacation days is to go to a hockey rink. I would, though, suggest going to a rink that doesn’t involve rush-hour traffic. Between that and soccer, my hip is