Soundin' Off

There’s a line in tonight’s walkout song — well, in the original version, not Bill Haley’s and his Comets’ — about rolling of eyes and gritting of teeth.*

This team might make you do that sometimes this year.

They gave up another quick one. Then they gave up three quick ones. The game was more or less over, dropping Bridgeport to 7-8, and for whatever it’s worth, they fell to fifth place, too. (And that eighth-place team is a-coming after them, too.)

There were all kinds. There was a pretty power-play setup. There was an intercepted clear. There was a bad break, where they blocked two shots only to have the second bounce straight to the open man. There was one funky one that deflected back through Munroe’s legs; there was one from the other side that somehow got through.** Five goals in 16 shots, and the Falcons were gone.

Bridgeport’s 36 shots probably included about 14 on the power play — maybe more, but give or take — including eight on that first chance that produced the goal. Of the 36, 12 came from either Flood or MacDonald. (Flood had four in the first period, and they might all have come on that one power play.)

At 12:22 of the first, Trevor Smith forced a turnover and got the puck to the net, where Devan Dubnyk stopped Greg Mauldin.

“It’s a whole different game, with Trevor Smith going to the net, if Greg Mauldin puts that in,” Capuano said.

The cynical response is that Springfield would then have taken its 2-1 lead at 12:37 instead of 19:01.

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Prescout. Typically good day for the usual suspects.

Montreal plucked Jay Leach off re-entry waivers. Jersey, meanwhile, signed Dean McAmmond.

Coupla-time Sound Tiger Jean Desrochers retired, his team announced.

Ryan Kinasewich was the ECHL’s Player of the Month.

Good stuff on Faith and Fear in Flushing today. Greg is happy with a Neil Best report on SNY’s Thursday offseason programming, and I’ve got to agree. (MSG had a Harry Howell film this morning that was fun to see.) Jason imagines the afterlife.

Good story from Ken Levine.

And there’s brighter Hughes family news.

*-In a breathtakingly different context, of course.
**-I say “somehow” because I was twitterin’ on the previous one at the time and couldn’t get a handle on the replays. Stupid technology.

So the Islanders finish up the preseason with a loss and three majors for Joel Rechlicz, and Jeremy Reich broke his left wrist in a fight. Yes, it’s not even this year yet, and it’s that kind of year.

Carolina assigned Rob Hennigar to the ECHL. The Devils waived Jay Leach and Tim Sestito. (Greg Moore is reportedly there, too.)

Ilya Zubov wants out of Binghamton.

Tough Adirondack hockey trivia.

The AHL re-did its Web site.

Former Nighthawk Sylvain Couturier has job security.

Filip Bondy points out danger on 161st Street. Meanwhile, it’s a good thing New York built those two baseball-only ballparks and got rid of those multi-purpose stadia, right?

And finally, Scott Adams believes China is doomed.

More links later, but…

Justin Bourne has plenty to say about the hit, and about Pascal Morency.

And, for Rosh Hashanah, our old buddy Aviv Blasbalg has a fine piece on Hank Greenberg on his blog.

Via Jonathan: The Islanders might consider claiming Rob Schremp, Jim Matheson reports. Well, they’d have the best lacrosse team in the league, anyway.

Jeremy Colliton appears in a different sweater, funky green and red, for preseason European hockey. Google translated, that story has a lot about and from Colliton.

Today’s NHLPA links: Shawn Horcoff and Manny Malhotra.

Hershey’s big Joe Finley has been moved to forward, Tarik El-Bashir reports.

Keep seeing headlines about how Gavin Floyd “flirt(ed) with perfection” Saturday against the Red Sox. Falling 10 outs short is “flirting with perfection”? That’s how I flirted with the girls in high school: distantly and ineffectively.

Will be in and out of touch the next week or so. Nothing personal.

(The header quote was comment spam on an old post. Figured I’d share.)

Glenn Healy resigned his NHLPA post; this just gets weirder and weirder. In the continuing series of player comment links: Andrew Ference and Jeremy Roenick, among others. And quite possibly more important than any of ‘em: Ted Lindsay.

Springfield invited a slew of veterans to its training camp, including inaugural Sound Tigers defenseman Chris Armstrong.

Meanwhile in conditioning-assignment alumni news, Mike Sillinger has a new job, and Shawn Bates is going to Colorado’s camp.

The U.S. Government is messing with NHL travel schedules, shutting down Air Canada charters between U.S. cities. (HT: Michael Russo).

We’ve got a new newsroom-wide blog, if you’d like to follow us during the day: Connecticut Postings.

A request: With the blog’s move from the other server, it appears that some posts were cut off in places when I fake-drew a line with a bunch of hyphens. If you notice a post that seems to fade off in a weird spot (more weird than usual, anyway), particularly a postgame post, please let me know so I can try to fix it. Thanks.

Courtesy of old friend Stephanie: Going Dutch, and Saying It Right from the Times.

Toronto, the worst place in the league for visiting AL teams? Maybe.

And the all Faith and Fear in Flushing corner: Greg Prince relives The Best Infield Ever, no punctuation; Jason Fry stays more recent, in hilarious (and sad) fashion.

Bluefish PR coordinator Paul Herrmann is a man after my own heart. On the back page of his game notes is a chart of the Atlantic League teams, their runs scored and runs against, and their Pythagorean projections. Out. Standing. (BTW, the Fishies are about six wins below where their run differential says they should be. That could make a difference.)

Sound Tigers single-game tickets go on sale Saturday.

More Kelly/NHLPA reaction from Vincent Damphousse, Nick Schultz and one Steve Valiquette.

Mike Russo, who got Schultz, also notes that Mark Parrish is working out and hoping to latch on, and has asked Garth Snow about another possible tryout.

It was Roy Mlakar Day in Ottawa.

Check out the super-standalone MSG and 2 Penn Plaza rendering (on the NYC historyblog “The Bowery Boys”). Outlined against a clear background and a cloudy sky, a view impossible in real life without clearing, oh, three or four blocks.

And finally, high comedy from the Town of Hempstead: The Lighthouse project’s zoning hearing is set for the same day as a certain event of import, should that hearing fail.