Shootin' the rock
It is incredibly weird for me to sit downstairs at the Arena at Harbor Yard. That's where I was for the Connecticut Sun WNBA exhibition game tonight. (It's fine when the story writes itself.) I sat right in front of where the home penalty box would be, give or take, which is about, what, 20 rows down and a section or two left from usual. And the action on the ice court was substantially different. At least I had Chris Elsberry and Jim Fuller there to help me out and talk about killing five-on-threes and pulling the goalie, and especially Elsberry announcing the last minute of play in the periods.
If the Liberty had only trapped, the game was theirs.
But anyway. Mentioning that I saw former BST staffer Gwen Pointer, who's now director of marketing with the Sun, we'll transition back to the ice, like Hershey's 2-0 win over the Penguins in WB. Granted, I'm a lot more lucid this time around, but this doesn't seem nearly as surprising as last year's 3-0 lead did. Maybe it was just from watching six incredible games between Bridgeport and those Penguins; maybe it's Hershey's Cup championship last year with a bunch of the same guys; maybe it's because Games 2 and 3 last year were sizeable victories, as opposed to this year's one-goal game, overtime game and two-goal game; maybe it's Hershey's minuscule edge this regular season; maybe it's seeing it happen last year, in and of itself. But I'm just not as shocked.
Meantime, Hamilton got the drop on Manitoba.
The biggest shock in Russia was that Frans Nielsen took another penalty in Denmark's 4-1 loss to Switzerland, but more on that in a moment. There's all kinds of intrigue in the other group, helped by the United States' 3-0 win over Germany; Paul Stastny had two goals and an assist, and Eric Cole assisted on all three goals. The big score was Slovakia 3, Czech 2, which tightened up the group in a hurry. Switzerland's win eliminated the Danes and the Italians, who lost to Finland 3-0 (nothing for Bergenheim).
Nielsen has six penalty minutes in five games in this tournament. He had 10 in 69 combined AHL and NHL games this year. (Apples and oranges, but still.)
The order has a ways to go, and the Czechs haven't even clinched a berth yet; if they lose to Canada and Germany beats Belarus in regulation, the Germans will sneak in ahead of the Czechs. here's the page with the tiebreaker rules. The overtime/shootout problem makes this tricky, and I'm not even really supposed to be blogging it, so y'know what? I'll wait till tomorrow to sort it all out. Chicken! you cry, and I'll admit it.
Also from Russia, they're extending the transfer agreement between the IIHF and the NHL.
If the Liberty had only trapped, the game was theirs.
But anyway. Mentioning that I saw former BST staffer Gwen Pointer, who's now director of marketing with the Sun, we'll transition back to the ice, like Hershey's 2-0 win over the Penguins in WB. Granted, I'm a lot more lucid this time around, but this doesn't seem nearly as surprising as last year's 3-0 lead did. Maybe it was just from watching six incredible games between Bridgeport and those Penguins; maybe it's Hershey's Cup championship last year with a bunch of the same guys; maybe it's because Games 2 and 3 last year were sizeable victories, as opposed to this year's one-goal game, overtime game and two-goal game; maybe it's Hershey's minuscule edge this regular season; maybe it's seeing it happen last year, in and of itself. But I'm just not as shocked.
Meantime, Hamilton got the drop on Manitoba.
The biggest shock in Russia was that Frans Nielsen took another penalty in Denmark's 4-1 loss to Switzerland, but more on that in a moment. There's all kinds of intrigue in the other group, helped by the United States' 3-0 win over Germany; Paul Stastny had two goals and an assist, and Eric Cole assisted on all three goals. The big score was Slovakia 3, Czech 2, which tightened up the group in a hurry. Switzerland's win eliminated the Danes and the Italians, who lost to Finland 3-0 (nothing for Bergenheim).
Nielsen has six penalty minutes in five games in this tournament. He had 10 in 69 combined AHL and NHL games this year. (Apples and oranges, but still.)
The order has a ways to go, and the Czechs haven't even clinched a berth yet; if they lose to Canada and Germany beats Belarus in regulation, the Germans will sneak in ahead of the Czechs. here's the page with the tiebreaker rules. The overtime/shootout problem makes this tricky, and I'm not even really supposed to be blogging it, so y'know what? I'll wait till tomorrow to sort it all out. Chicken! you cry, and I'll admit it.
Also from Russia, they're extending the transfer agreement between the IIHF and the NHL.
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