Past and future
Nick Martens and Michael Mole (with a nifty new helmet) are headed back to the Coast. Wade Dubielewicz (who supposedly has a new lid of his own) was on his way.
Allan Rourke (who's ready to go) started up a game after practice at about 11, where the players had to shoot five pucks in a row into the net from the blue line, and they all had to go in airborne.
It was tougher than it looked. At 12:20, there were still eight guys out there. Steve Regier and Dan Marshall were still going after it when I left at 1.
Brandon Nolan and Blake Comeau both practiced, but Comeau is listed day-to-day, and Nolan isn't supposed to play this weekend.
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The Lawrence Gottesdiener/AEG group got the lease on the Hartford Civic Center today: "The decision to dump MSG throws into doubt the immediate future of minor league hockey in Hartford and the future of the Hartford Wolf Pack specifically." It'll be an interesting little while up there...
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Points in the season series is the tiebreaker that follows overall wins, so I sorted out some season series the other night for the database I keep at this time of year, including Bridgeport's vs. Albany. To draw even in the season series, Bridgeport needs to win in regulation both April 1 at home and April 7 upstate. Should Albany even force one game to OT, the Rats clinch the season series on points.
The tiebreaker after that is goal differential, in which the Rats now have a 13-goal edge. Let's just say they're still tied at that point; the next tiebreaker is goal differential in the season series, and Bridgeport would have had to have won those Albany games by a combined six-goal margin to even that count. Want to get beyond crazy? Next is in-conference points percentage. Bridgeport doesn't see the West, so its points percentage will be its conference points percentage. Albany is over .600 (10-6-1) against the West with three contests to play, including two against Syracuse, so if it's tied with Bridgeport, its conference percentage will probably be lower than the Sound Tigers', and Bridgeport would eke out a playoff berth on the last tiebreaker.
And let's not even THINK about what'd happen if there was a three-way tie with Philadelphia.
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And finally: Go get 'em, boys!
Allan Rourke (who's ready to go) started up a game after practice at about 11, where the players had to shoot five pucks in a row into the net from the blue line, and they all had to go in airborne.
It was tougher than it looked. At 12:20, there were still eight guys out there. Steve Regier and Dan Marshall were still going after it when I left at 1.
Brandon Nolan and Blake Comeau both practiced, but Comeau is listed day-to-day, and Nolan isn't supposed to play this weekend.
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The Lawrence Gottesdiener/AEG group got the lease on the Hartford Civic Center today: "The decision to dump MSG throws into doubt the immediate future of minor league hockey in Hartford and the future of the Hartford Wolf Pack specifically." It'll be an interesting little while up there...
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Points in the season series is the tiebreaker that follows overall wins, so I sorted out some season series the other night for the database I keep at this time of year, including Bridgeport's vs. Albany. To draw even in the season series, Bridgeport needs to win in regulation both April 1 at home and April 7 upstate. Should Albany even force one game to OT, the Rats clinch the season series on points.
The tiebreaker after that is goal differential, in which the Rats now have a 13-goal edge. Let's just say they're still tied at that point; the next tiebreaker is goal differential in the season series, and Bridgeport would have had to have won those Albany games by a combined six-goal margin to even that count. Want to get beyond crazy? Next is in-conference points percentage. Bridgeport doesn't see the West, so its points percentage will be its conference points percentage. Albany is over .600 (10-6-1) against the West with three contests to play, including two against Syracuse, so if it's tied with Bridgeport, its conference percentage will probably be lower than the Sound Tigers', and Bridgeport would eke out a playoff berth on the last tiebreaker.
And let's not even THINK about what'd happen if there was a three-way tie with Philadelphia.
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And finally: Go get 'em, boys!
posted by Fornabaio at
3:47 PM
3 Comments:
hello Mike..
I am leaving for Italy on Friday for 12 days and may NOT be able to check the blog. But maybe you can post a pic of the new Dubie mask? See ya
Caio
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Anonymous, at 9:40 PM
Have fun... I'll see what I can do.
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Fornabaio, at 11:24 PM
How's Jeremy's shoulder? Will he play on Saturday?
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