Komets

Win Rood will be Wendy Bartle's guest for this week's edition of "Fans in the Stands", which can be seen during the first intermission of the Komets Game of the Week broadcast. Rood has been working as an off-ice official for 47 years and currently serves as the managing supervisor over all such officials at Komets home games. Among other things, he will discuss his early experiences as a fan of the team as well as a few of the interactions he has had with players off the ice.

You can watch it here.

Komets must improve on defense.

Greatest hockey game ever?

Thanks to Glenn, you can watch them here.

I also talked with Mitzi Toepfer, Fort Wayne Youth Hockey League guru for decades about the debate on how much the Komets support/donate to the league.

``If there was something the league needed for some help of some kind, they have always helped, be it financial or whatever,'' she said. ``Normally, finances aren't even a question. They have gone out of their way since they have been owners. They have always been very accommodating and supportive of Fort Wayne Youth Hockey.''

Just a few highlights

* Flint goaltender Sergei Zvyagin was knocked out of the game after taking a shot to the head. Referee Jim Hawthorne did a great job by correctly insisting that Zvyagin get checked out by Flint's trainer.

* Leo Thomas left the game at the second intermission after getting hit knee-to-knee by Flint's Dan Lapointe. Thomas came back to skate a shift at the end of the second period, but sat out the third. He said his knee has a small sprain and he's hopeing to play Wednesday. He said if Saturday had been a playoff game, he'd have continued to play.

Here's what Michael Franke had to say when I asked him about Brendan's column:

This is the first goal of the game from Justin Chwedoruk on a backhand. The puck is in the top right corner of the goal. Chad Ryan, eat your heart out!

The Winnipeg Free Press has obituaries today for both Ray Brunel, who played in the AHL, WHL, CPL and IHL from 1957-58 to 1969-70, died Feb. 24 in Winnipeg. Brunel was inducted into the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame in 1997.