Sad day in Bridgeport

RIP, Lieutenant Steven Velasquez and Firefighter Michel Baik. It appears Lt. Velasquez played for the fire department hockey team at least once at Harbor Yard.

Thank you and good night

When we add rows to this chart this late in the summer, it’s usually because someone got a nice promotion (or at least the guy getting whacked actually got whacked earlier). The Yzerman/BriseBois

Emergency white-out

We’re here tonight mostly to link to old maps* for this, sent along by former Admirals beat writer Tris Wykes: A Manitoba man called 911 to demand that someone… Nah, go and read it. Too good. (“He

Bentivoglio to Germany

As noted in comments, Sean Bentivoglio signed with Augsburg, joining sometime linemate Mike Radja over there (along with, among others, Barry Tallackson, Jon D’Aversa, Noah Clarke, Jonathan Paiement

Geography notes

Have surely plugged this way too much on Twitter and elsewhere, but finding this map when looking for something else? Breathtaking. If that’s not where you’re from, there are 22,000 other files on

Yabo. Oh my.

If you were worried about heavyweight toughness without the immortal Joel Rechlicz… It won’t get much more fun ’round here. The Islanders just announced that they’ve agreed to terms with Jeremy

Fish all day, sleep all night

Somewhere around the 13th or 14th inning, while they were blowing bunt plays, this game sort of turned into the rake scene from Cape Feare**. You know, started cute (first seven innings), got annoying

Apropos of nothing

When Paul Szczechura re-signed with Tampa this week, there were Twitter jokes about fighting to learn how to spell and pronounce his name. (We’d figured that out a while ago. He was there with Steve