Jon Gleed got off the ice early this afternoon, ready to take a shower and settle in for a day as a healthy scratch, to take in this one from up on the fourth floor.
And then Andrew MacDonald got recalled.
“The coach called me in and told me I was playing,” Gleed said. “I had to run to Subway and get something to eat.”
Forget that Jared guy: Get this kid an endorsement deal.
Gleed had a couple of assists, was credited with a third until the off-ice guys realized it belonged to Trevor Smith (who, says a trusted source, was about five feet offside on the winning goal)*, was plus-2 and continues to play his usual effective game.
“Jon’s played great,” Mark Wotton said. “He’s the kind of guy who works hard every game and practice.”
That sometimes doesn’t show up tangibly (unless he’s playing Superman, as Peter Mannino once called him), and when you’re on a team with eight defensemen and you’re the only one who has neither an NHL deal nor a ‘C’ on your sweater, you’re gonna sit sometimes. When he gets in, he does a nice job.
“I try to keep things simple,” Gleed said. “We happened to score some goals, and I benefited … when some guys made some great plays ahead of me.”
Wotton, camera-shy anyway, tried to motion us away after the game. “Talk to Jon Gleed,” he said. Yeah, we probably don’t do that enough.
It’s just, you know, Cornell.
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Martin had a great line about his line; it’s in the gamer. Capuano said they looked back at film of Bridgeport’s game in Portland on Halloween, and they really liked what those lines did against the Pirates, so they went back to them, at least the top three. The result: five goals in a game for the first time since April.
Meanwhile, check out what that goal today did to the Sound Tigers’ all-time overtime scoring list:
1) Jeff Hamilton 6-1-7 2) Rob Collins 2-4-6 3) Trevor Smith 0-5-5 4) Mark Wotton 3-1-4 5T) Blake Comeau 2-2-4 5T) Sean Bentivoglio 2-2-4 7T) Brandon Smith 1-3-4 7T) Bruno Gervais 1-3-4 9) Eric Manlow 0-4-4
Katie Strang reports Brendan Witt is out for personal reasons, hence the call for MacDonald.
Speak of the devil: Peter Mannino wins his first Chicago start.
Long weekend.
*-You know what? On video, it both looks as if Smith is easily onside and the assist should be Gleed’s. So strike that whole thing.