Monthly Archive for September, 2017

: September, 2017

Welcome back to Worcester: Hartford (exh.) postgame 2

Fun night. Great facility. Wrote about it, Worcester and the relationship for the paper tomorrow, and hopefully will get back up here at least once or twice. As for the game, it’s over, which is a

Lineup in Worcester

Tonight’s lineup against Hartford in Worcester looks a fair bit like yesterday’s practice: F: 40 Matt Gaudreau-24 Travis St. Denis-25 Casey Bailey 32 Ross Johnston-18 John Stevens-11 Tanner Fritz 29

Bourque signs

The Sound Tigers announced an AHL contract for Ryan Bourque this afternoon. That leaves Ben Holmstrom, Casey Bailey, Yanick Turcotte and Patrick McNally on tryouts.

Down to 30: Friday notes

(And I don’t mean the temperature, but darn was it so much nicer and fogless in here today now that the hurricane is gone…) Seven cuts left one group (without names on the back; get those numbers

Not killing time: Hartford (exh.) postgame

The parade came, as expected. Terry Koharski had two slashing minors in the books in 183 seconds. They wound up with 13 power plays in all, including four five-on-threes (Hartford three of them for

Mall exhibition: Hartford (exh.) pregame

Live from a sorta-surreal, dark-concourses, mostly empty XL Center (though the music just started with 10 minutes or so to warmup)… The new rink is good to go, evidently. The top of the dasherboards

Coupla comebacks: Wednesday notes

A couple of returns today, Michael Dal Colle and Travis St. Denis, in no-contact red. Still day-to-day, said Brent Thompson, as are the still-out Eamon McAdam and Mitchell Vande Sompel. There is no

Out of the mist: Tuesday notes

Walked in this morning to one of those days: The air conditioning wasn’t yet overcoming the humidity, the plexiglass was fogged over, and a mist wafted over the ice. (“Always a good time when you

Starting right: Monday notes

Good first day? “Great first day,” Brent Thompson said. “I’m happy with the effort level. Obviously a little rust, whether a day of travel or coming in from wherever.” Having a bunch of bodies is good

Camp roster: Holmstrom, Bailey… Bourque

Bridgeport released its training camp roster (with numbers!) this afternoon, and among the tryouts are a bunch of Railers, alum Chris Langkow, Ben Holmstrom and Casey Bailey as we’d been told, and