Why Munroe back to back, getting a win and making bigger saves than the raw 21 saves might necessarily indicate?
“Just changing it up,” Jack Capuano said. “I don’t know where the rotation’s going to go. Maybe Scotty will go against his old team, then we’ll get Lawson a couple of games. … We’ve got to get them feeling comfortable, too.”
(Asked Munroe about some of the bigger saves, including two or three good chances for NHL star Ryan O’Marra: “You’ve got to (make them),” he said.)
And what about going without the lids in warmup?
“Sometimes you just do something to rally the troops,” Greg Mauldin said.
Well, it worked out.
“We had good pressure on them, but we were keeping the third guy high. They weren’t getting many odd-man rushes,” Munroe said.
They talked about the week of practice, the focus on keeping things simple, working on tightening up the systems. They looked much more consistent with them.
Springfield caught a break to end the second period, when Greg Moore’s stick broke, and took advantage. Bridgeport got one in overtime, when two Falcons hopped off the ice, and took advantage.
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Bridgeport stayed out of the box. Amazing. Three power-plays against, one for only seven seconds; that’s the fewest in nine games.
The Falcons took a couple of penalties for some nasty hits and had some other hard ones that weren’t penalized. “They were playing hard, we were playing hard,” said Bentivoglio, who took one that looked uglier than, maybe, it was in the second period. But Greg Mauldin, who took three or four vicious hits and kept going, was proud of they way they battled through that, pointing to one time when Jesse Joensuu took a hit behind the net, went down but still had the puck when he got up.
Prescout. Maybe they won’t be happy.
Len DiCostanzo had been with Mississippi in the SPHL and spent some time with Charlotte before getting a concussion. Hope Matt Broyles comes back from the flu as well as Kyle Okposo did. (Though the Big Club gave up a lead, too.)
Four overtime wins is already halfway to the team record (eight, 2003-04) and more than they had in three complete seasons.
Faith Night here, which helps account for the attendance: 5,479. I have this urge to read my Bible. Gonna try to beat the kids out of here.
Daniel Tkaczuk signed with Charlotte.
Syracuse signed a long-term lease to stick around up there.
How about Central, smoking New Canaan 42-7 to get back to the FCIAC football title game?
And best of luck to Mike Murphy in his treatment.
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