Monthly Archive for February, 2010

: February, 2010

Giant (Margin Of Victory) Center

For a while last night, a typo credited Scott Munroe with 60 minutes played for his two periods of work. After he made 19 saves in the third, already down 9-2, to make 33 overall, why not? He stopped

Olympic Wrap, Day 10: Bronze Medal Game

Finland 5, Slovakia 3 (No locals. All gone except two tomorrow.) Sunday’s championship United States vs. Canada, 3:15 p.m.

B-E-A-R-S blog blog blog

We’re hanging out at home tonight, waiting for the beginining of the one appearance in Hershey. We’ll toss up some liveblog thoughts as they come while we listen in to Phil. From the pregame lineups,

Local Olympic Wrap, Day 9: Semifinals

United States 6, Finland 1 Chris Drury, USA: 0-0-0, one shot, evenJonathan Quick, USA: DNP Canada 3, Slovakia 2 Sunday’s championship United States vs. Canada, 3:15 p.m. Saturday’s bronze-medal game

Local Olympic Wrap, Day 9: Semifinals

United States 6, Finland 1 Chris Drury, USA: 0-0-0, one shot, evenJonathan Quick, USA: DNP Canada 3, Slovakia 2 Sunday’s championship United States vs. Canada, 3:15 p.m. Saturday’s bronze-medal game

Koskinen closer

One nice thing at practice as the snow blew around outside: One big goalie occasionally taking pucks. Mikko Koskinen doesn’t have a timetable, but he has the pads on again. “I’m doing butterflies, 50

Snowicane

Edit: K.Strang reports a four-year extension for Andrew MacDonald. While we await Snowpocalypse IV or whatever it is… Dustin Kohn remains a man without a country (or team) (or really just playing

Tough one

Team toughness, as Jeremy Reich said, goes beyond fighting. It’s about hitting, and it’s about sticking up for each other. Consider that accomplished in the first period. And then comes the second,

Survive and Advance

So we move from a team that pulls out a 1-0 win (plus empty-netter) to two teams that played a 1-0 game a few days ago… BRIDGEPORT F: Reich-Moore (A)-Figren Smith-Mauldin (A)-Joensuu

Local Olympic Wrap, Day 8: Quarterfinals

United States 2, Switzerland 0 Chris Drury, USA: 0-0-0, even, one shotJonathan Quick, USA: DNDTobias Stephan, SUI: DNP Canada 7, Russia 3 Denis Grebeshkov, RUS: 0-1-1, even, one shot Finland 2, Czech