- Who, when, whatever: Bridgeport at Providence, The Dunk, Friday, 7 p.m.
- When you type “The Dunk,” do you automatically say “Don’t fake th” Obviously.
- But do you say it as Shaq, or as Strong-Bad-as-Homsar? I’m a sonnnnng from the ’60s.
- Watch: AHLTV pay-per-view
- Listen: Mixlr audio
- Twitters: Alan / the Sound Tigers / Mark Divver / the Bruins
- Box score: Present (R: J.Williams, Dietrich; L: Drain, former Sound Tigers ATO Antipin).
- Storyline: The race is tight. You may’ve noticed. We’ve been otherwise engaged the past few days (and will be tonight), but when we popped over today, looked like Josh Ho-Sang was out again tonight. Brent Thompson praised his recent practices, said they’d done some video with him, and said he’ll be back in this weekend. Optional skate, so tough to get a good read, but looked like Steve Bernier and Kyle Burroughs were back. Matt Lorito has been skating hard, and though not tonight, sometime soon.
- Meh, what else is going on: Yale-Quinnipiac. If you weren’t reminded today, you’re not following enough former Quinnipiac players on Twitter.
- Aren’t you supposed to be doing something else: I said… (Also PODCASTS.)
- How much time did you spend the past few days looking back at times of games? Substantially too much. (Alt. answer: Good excuse to download the 2003-04 gamesheets, finally!) Tuesday was Bridgeport’s shortest shootout game in over eight years, since three days after Christmas 2010 in Albany. The shortest shootout in team history is 2:08, also at Hartford. (Games move along at Hartford. I kind of subconsciously knew that but didn’t know just how much they do.) I had games since 2004-05 downloaded and went through them very quickly, and then added in 2003-04, but think I managed to stop and look at every one under 2:20. Shortest shootout game I found at home was 2:17, Jan. 7, 2009, against Houston, the game when the Aeros scored three goals in the last three minutes to tie it; that matched Nov. 15, 2006, against Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. Shortest overtime games: Home: 2:14 vs. Manchester, Jan. 9, 2011; Road: 2:06 at Manchester, March 7, 2010. In regulation time: Home: 2:04 vs. Manchester (really), Dec. 29, 2012; Road 2:00 at Lowell, March 2, 2008.
If that game the other night had finished in 2:07, it would’ve been Bridgeport’s shortest regulation-time game since the last game of 2013-14.
I would’ve bet a couple of bucks that there was a sub-two-hours game in 2003-04, but there wasn’t; closest they came was a 2:01 in Hartford on Feb. 25. One of Bridgeport’s healthy scratches that night was somebody named Jay Leach. Anybody know what that guy’s up to now?- RIP: John Dingell, Albert Finney, Andre Boudrias, Lance Brady and Frank Robinson.
- If this were a regular blog post, what word or phrase would most likely follow “More” at this point: “PODCASTS.” Or probably “tomorrow.”
Lies: Here’s tonight’s apparent lineup, from warmups:
BRIDGEPORT
F: C.Bourque-Koivula-Bernier (A)
St. Denis-Fritz-Bellows
Jones-Stevens-R.Bourque
Eansor-Kubiak-B.Holmstrom (C)
D: Wotherspoon-Burroughs
Vande Sompel-Rathgeb
Helgeson (A)-Aho
(Casto-scratch)
G: Smith
Gibson