Soundin' Off

(If you didn’t see the Calvin de Haan all-star news this afternoon, go take a look. The 2011 Trivia answers are also up, if you were interested.)

Liveblogging from the living rooom again. We’ll have Ken Cail up and will follow Jamie and the Monarchs’ feeds on Twitter.

Jamie says Kevin Poulin starts; no surprise. It’s his eighth in a row, and only Wade Dubielewicz, twice, has played more games in a row in goal for Bridgeport (Dec. 10-31, 2005; March 24-April 9, 2006).

Mark Lemelin and Keith Kaval to work it. More in a bit.

–From Jamie’s first-goal-contest tweet, Klementyev is out from Monday’s lineup; presumably Oleksy is in, and Gallant will at least go in warmup.

–Monarchs appear to have one extra dressed for warmup as well. Unlikely I’ll pick out which was an extra, but just making the point for foolish consistency’s sake.

–Jamie tweets the same forward lines as Monday, “Gallant may be last (scratch)” (Edit: He is.):
F: McNeely-Cizikas-Rakhshani
Haley (A)-Romano-Backman
Howes-Mouillierat-Aubin
Haddad-Frischmon (A)-Riley
(Gallant-scratch)
D: de Haan-Wishart
Donovan-Reese (A)
Ness-Oleksy
G: Poulin
Riopel

–Appears Chris Cloud is Manchester’s scratch, assuming that’s the 39 I scribbled out.

–Martin Jones in goal for the Monarchs. Game on.

–Radio team impressed with the Bridgeport start.

–Poulin not credited with a save at one end. I smell a tweet coming on. But then the Sound Tigers go the other way, and after Jones stops Haley’s partial break, all-star defenseman Calvin de Haan scores on the rebound. 1-0 Bridgeport.

–Never mind — Backman scores the goal.

–Ken has noted Reese from Harvard, Backman from Yale, then Romano from Cornell — one of the more educated teams, he says. Chips in the color man (whose name I’m drawing a blank on, sorry), “how’s that working out for them?” Anyway, Bridgeport killed off an Oleksy penalty earlier, its 13th penalty killed in a row, and now Kozun goes for allegedly charging Oleksy; they weren’t thrilled with either call.

–Haley makes it 2-0 on a rebound late in a Legein roughing penalty. Sound Tigers outshooting the Monarchs something like 17-5 by the box at 17:31.

–I don’t have Bridgeport’s record for shots in a period for some reason, but I know this isn’t it. Sound Tigers outshoot Manchester 20-5 and lead 2-0 after one. The Monarchs will have 1:41 of power-play time to start the second on a Mouillierat tripping penalty.

–Bridgeport’s shutout streak is up to 100 minutes, 28.2 seconds. Poulin’s, because of the empty-net time in Wilkes-Barre, is roughly 1:54 less.

–The box is here, by the way.

–Bridgeport kills the minor to start the second, up to 14 in a row.

–Justin Johnson gets a hooking minor at 6:19 of the second; the Monarchs have the only four shots of the period, by the box.

–Kaunisto gets tied up by Mouillierat on a short-handed rush to even it up after a little more than a minute.

–Bridgeport gets through the minor. That’s 15-for-15 after just 22-for-38.

–Linden Vey, a hero in the teams’ last meeting, hits a crossbar, but soon after, Kozun goes for boarding with 2:58 left in the second, still 2-0.

–Tony Romano scored on a backhander, his third goal in the past four games and the second power-play goal tonight, a minute into the minor: 3-0 Bridgeport.

–It’s 3-0 after two. Shots 14-8 Manchester in the period, 28-19 Bridgeport overall. Shutout streak at 120:28.2.

–The third period is on. Looking up some crazy stats. Unusual to be looking them up on Bridgeport’s side of the ledger.

–These are trickier to deal with than team shutout streaks, and I’m trying to dig back and make sure, but I think Poulin, midway through the third period, is on Bridgeport’s longest individual shutout streak since the lockout. Mike Morrison went over 127 minutes without allowing a goal in November 2007; Poulin has been out twice on delayed penalties tonight, but he still has enough to be over 128 minutes now. Bridgeport to a power play with 9:10 to go.

–That penalty was Kozun for tripping. He has been called for three penalties and fouled himself at least once, out of nine penalties in all.

–Under six minutes left… “mercifully,” says Ken. Two games in a row that Bridgeport has at least beaten opposing broadcasters into submission.

–Another Bridgeport power play with 4:59 left after a Rakhshani steal forced a Campbell penalty.

–Rakhshani makes it 4-0 with Bridgeport’s third power-play goal.

–Watt, late, for delay of game.

–Czarnik shoots, and the puck goes in, but they’re wondering whether the goal will count or not, as the net came off… Red light on, they say… Ness going to the penalty box… No goal, Hickey put into the net by Ness.

–Bridgeport 4, Manchester 0, final. Sound Tigers record back-to-back shutouts for the first time in over six years, since Dec. 31, 2005-Jan. 4, 2006.

–Streaks, if you’ll permit me a chance to re-check my arithmetic in Base 60: Poulin 138:17, team 140:28.2.

–The Sound Tigers recorded three shutouts in a row once (by three different goalies) and now have back-to-back shutouts four other times. Poulin is the first Bridgeport goalie to record shutouts in back-to-back games himself (though Dubielewicz was in on both ends once, the game in which Chris Madden was injured at Lowell). Poulin is the third Bridgeport goalie to post shutouts in back-to-back starts.

–Bridgeport’s first road shutout since the Avery game, Feb. 18, 2009.

–Like I said, these can be a little tricky? Found a Peter Mannino streak — his second, third and fourth pro games — in October 2008 that’s a little longer than Poulin’s. How much longer? Not positive. Mannino was out for an extra attacker on delayed penalties in all three of those games. If he was in for every second between those two goals, it’s an even 140 minutes. It could be as much as 43 seconds lower, though. So, Poulin is somewhere between 60 and 103 seconds away from the post-lockout team record. The team’s post-lockout record is almost as close, 143:39, which includes those New Year’s shutouts in ’05-06.

The overall records are 204:45 for the team, including those three shutouts in a row late in 2003-04 (the scoreless tie against Philadelphia was the third); the individual record is Rick DiPietro’s, 156:09, March 2002.

Yeah, so, now that I’ve glazed your eyes over. Brent Thompson said he liked the effort all around, “attention to detail,” decision-making. The power play has benefitted because, “beginning and ending it all, we’re shooting. … We’re creating secondary chances,” getting the PK moving around. He said he hadn’t heard anything from Long Island about anyone going up. (Of course, that was a half-hour ago.) Some other interesting things that I’ll just save for the paper.

More as warranted, or if I do more math.