If you were hoping to see the Cleveland Monsters, well, sorry. There was precisely one tiny switch in the Sound Tigers’ schedule format for 2018-19: They’ll face Lehigh Valley two fewer times and meet Wilkes-Barre/Scranton two more times, six instead of eight, eight instead of six. This move obviously comes one year too late, considering how the Phantoms owned Bridgeport, but so it goes. We also learned, officially, that the home opener is Oct. 13, and it’s a matinee. There are four other “guaranteed” Saturdays, if you’d like to fill out your day planner before the Day Planners come out in (likely) July.
After a couple of days of phone tag, caught up with Travis St. Denis.
The World Championship site is wonky at this writing, but Cam Atkinson scored in overtime this morning to lift the U.S. past Latvia (Kristers Gudlevskis backed up). The Americans’ magic number is five points to clinch a semifinals berth. If all goes well, think that could happen by Saturday. Teams are clumped up in the middle, though.
Miserable news that Fox has canceled Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Sad to see it go. Excited to see what they all do next. (Similarly, to a lesser extent as a series, to hear about Last Man On Earth, which when it wasn’t being straight-up silly was a very interesting show.)
And RIP, Ginny Wrigley.