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Soundin' Off -- the lifeboat

Saturday, May 19, 2007

What's a "clutch"?

The short version after a week on assignment(s) (where sometimes it rains):

The other assistant coach will be in the paper in the morning. Feels like a good move for both sides, albeit an interesting one.

Dieter Kochan will be an assistant coach with the junior-A Marquette Rangers, The Mining Journal says. Islanders assistant Danny Flynn is going back to be the Moncton Wildcats' head coach. Kenny Morrow is sticking around.

Hartford should live, but there are two other teams that also need more time to firm up next year. Several reports have Omaha moving to Quad Cities. Meeting adjourned to Friday. (Quad Cities would be interesting. The rink needs some work to bring it up to AHL specs, but it looks OK from the outside -- drove to Moline during one trip to visit The Little Punk in Illinois. And then once I was in Moline, heck, I had to cross the Mississippi. Spent about 30 seconds in Iowa...)

I was gonna mention how Dave Steckel is a pretty good player, but then pretty much every other Bears player got in the act, too. Hershey's got a lead. And Louis Robitaille got dinged for diving in the last minute: Fill in your own punchline. Hamilton blew a lead Friday, then came back twice to get the lead on Chicago on Dan Jancevski's overtime winner. Garry McKay says Eric Manlow has come back from an awful and out-of-shape start. Geoff Ward is Springfield's coach.

I love the Triple Crown, but NBC's switching from Buffalo-Ottawa to an extended Preakness preview was pretty depressing.

The dark is afraid of Endy Chavez.

Willie Randolph gave the commencement speech at Fordham this morning. Vin Scully was the speaker in 2000, so that's at least two pretty solid choices in eight years. (My brother gets a Hall-of-Fame broadcaster; I got the university president at the university commencement and some depressing, preachy sociologist in the rain at class day. Exciting times. Thank goodness for Marcellus Wiley shooting the silly string all over everyone.)

Found this knocking around YouTube. The 12 guys on the ice are Steve Patrick, Mike Rogers, Tomas Sandstrom, Steve Richmond, James Patrick and John Vanbiesbrouck vs. Clark Gillies, Bryan Trottier, Duane Sutter, Stefan Persson, Paul Boutilier and Kelly Hrudey. If it is 1985-86, Hrudey's hockeygoalies.org bio makes it Dec. 20, 1985 -- and it thus would've been the last game as Rangers for both Rogers (traded that day for Larry Melnyk) and Danny's father. I'll do some research.

1 Comments:

  • We had Alex Haley as our commencement speaker which was pretty cool.

    As for the assistant coach, it's a good choice and if he can bring some of the success he had this season back to Bridgeport then it can only help.

    By Blogger OneTigerFan, at 12:33 AM  

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