Soundin' Off

Saturday, the former Little Punk in Illinois married the girl for whom he came home. ‘Twas a blast. I’m proud to have gained a sister (and a little doggie niece).

Though they went and scheduled their wedding during hockey season, I lucked out and missed only a road trip.

While we were busy, the Sound Tigers played Worcester and Portland and Providence (against a team that was coming off this skunking). They only beat Portland. Hometown-paper/blog reports: Bill Ballou (with notes in Worcester; Paul Betit and Chris Roy in Portland; and what passes for coverage of a home game for the Providence Journal.

After that, the team had Monday off. Was rather glad to have it myself. We’ll see how they’re feeling in the morning, and then we’ll see how things go Wednesday morning.

A couple of weeks ago, maybe, this might have gone differently. Mikko Koskinen wasn’t as comfortable on the North American ice back then.

Um, the kid looked pretty comfortable tonight.

He has things to work on — he mentioned, especially, managing to cover up or get the puck to the corner when it’s in tight — but it was a solid first start, especially in that first 15 minutes, when Worcester could have run away with the evening. The Sound Tigers popped in three goals in a little over three minutes, and that was that.

(Literally. Until the bonus round.)

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Bentivoglio, Haskins and Martin had a combined one point tonight, and that was Martin’s on the five-on-three, but they were buzzing, forechecking, wreaking some havoc for the second game in a row. “They’ve been good,” Capuano said. “They’re doing the right things at the right times. They understand the system. They believe what we’re trying to teach, and they’re having success. We hope to get more guys on the same page.” Was a little surprised to see they got only four shots to the net.

Eric Boguniecki in the dressing room afterward, visiting the folks, so he visited the boys. He’s still hoping to latch on somewhere.

Thanks to Gerry Cantlon: Junior Lessard landed in Finland with Ilves. And Mark Parrish landed in Norfolk on a PTO.

Mikko Koskinen makes his North American pro debut in net for the Sound Tigers, whose only other change in the lineup is inserting Joel Rechlicz for Robin Figren:

BRIDGEPORT
F: Smith-Moore (A)-Mauldin
DiBenedetto-Romano-Joensuu
Bentivoglio-Haskins-Martin
Haley-Marcinko-Rechlicz
D: Wotton (C)-Gleed
Kohn-MacDonald
Katic-Westgarth
G: Koskinen
Lawson

WORCESTER
F: Mashinter-Vesce (C)-Trevelyan
Zalewski-Couture-Helminen
McCarthy-Desjardins-DaSilva
Henderson-Quirk-Jones
Strong
D: Groulx-Moore (A)
Joslin (A)-Callahan
Wilson-Petrecki
G: Stalock
Sexsmith