So it’s pouring rain this morning, the radar still shows lots of green and orange, supposed scattered thunderstorms persist. Got geared up with the raincoat and the Ziploc Bag o’ Protection for the notes. Get to the lacrosse game. The sun comes out and the temperature shoots up about 20 degrees, so much so that the water is boiling off the turf.
Result on the Irish skin: sunburn, first of the season. For crying out loud.
Yet another reason to miss hockey and its cool, indoor venue. Where it’s still going on: Abbotsford and Hamilton, and the Bulldogs came from behind to beat the Heat 5-2 and return home with a 3-2 series lead. Garry McKay wrote Saturday morning how the Bulldogs’ top scorers weren’t scoring. One of those he mentioned, Mike Glumac, scored the two goals that brought Hamilton back from 2-0 down. (Former Sound Tigers forward David Desharnais, also referenced, scored a last-second empty-netter.)
Over in Deutschland, a couple of Frans Nielsen goals led Denmark to a 4-1 win over Finland. So the Danes lead Group D, which also includes Germany and the United States, and Monday’s DEN-USA game gets a little bigger. (The top three from each pool advance, but because you carry (most of) your points over into the second round, these games really do count.) Monday at Cologne, 10:15 a.m. (Saw that Universal Sports wanted a buck to stream? Hmm. Yeah. Like me some hockey, but I dunno.)
Mike Souza had a big assist to help Italy draw even with Canada. (Though the tournament can’t ignore that Canada scored the next four goals, we can. Also, Italy no longer gets the blue-font treatment. Got to earn that again this summer.)
Also, the Swiss beat Latvia. No Tobias Stephan, so by far the most important thing in this box score: the ‘C’ next to Herbie Vasiljevs’ name. Cool.