...who try to look pretty

The home whites-n-oranges are in the house, glimpsed from afar this morning. Less than 45 hours to the home opener, and the arrival of Section 14.

Two other uniform things: Paul Lukas' Uni Watch column notes a scary double-curse photo from 19 years, 51 weeks ago. And in Buffalo, two games without the Buffaslug, 16 goals. Coincidence? You be the judge, but the non-slug fallout includes a massacre on Broad Street as the Flyers waive Petr Nedved, Nolan Baumgartner and Niko Dimitrakos.

Dave Baseggio's Rivermen began their only eastern swing tonight with a shootout loss in Albany. (The Rats evidently shot first.) Ben Guite plus-2, Peter Tsimikalis a tally in the Bonus Round, and Jason Bacashihua takes the shootout loss...

I might have gone, but I was otherwise occupied tonight.

Read with sadness of the passing of CBS newsman Christopher Glenn. Neat to know that even some of his colleagues got to know him in their living rooms on Saturday mornings....