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Rehash of the bash

By Blake Sebring — Tue, 11/03/2009 - 11:09pm — Tailing the Komets

WANE's Glenn Marini and I sat down today to talk about Saturday's game. You can watch it here. Please be patient because it takes a little while to load. It's 11 minutes of your life you will never get back.

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Programming change

By Blake Sebring — Tue, 11/03/2009 - 10:28pm — Tailing the Komets

Randy just let me know that the times The Public Access team will show a replay of Saturday's game at 7 p.m., Wednesday on Comcast Cable Ch. 55 and Verizon Ch. 25, and again at 11 a.m. on Thursday.

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Correction

By Blake Sebring — Tue, 11/03/2009 - 5:38pm — Tailing the Komets

In stories this week, I said Brad MacMillan's 15-game suspension was the longest all-time for a Komet, breaking the mark of 12 games by Robin Bawa. After further research, Bob Bailey was suspended for the final 27 games of the 1963-64 season for hitting referee Frank Slota over the head with his stick.

According to the story at the time, "

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Tough talk

By Blake Sebring — Tue, 11/03/2009 - 2:34pm — Tailing the Komets

The Komets are still very upset about Saturday's altercations. No one seems to be upset with the suspensions the league handed down, but they are mad that Jason Lawmaster didn't receive any suspension.

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Two stories today

By Blake Sebring — Tue, 11/03/2009 - 11:03am — Tailing the Komets

The first is the general suspension announcement which you can read here.

The second is a column about how the league is struggling to find the balance with fighting. You can read that here.

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Replay of the game

By Blake Sebring — Mon, 11/02/2009 - 6:35pm — Tailing the Komets

The Public Access team will show a replay of Saturday's game at 7 p.m., Wednesday on Comcast Cable Ch. 55 and Verizon Ch. 25, and again at 11 a.m. on Thursday. I'm quite confident in saying that I'm sure Randy and Tim took a dignified, calm and reasoned approach to calling this contest. I'll bet they never even raised their voices, right Tim?

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Boucher, DeAngelis hon

By Blake Sebring — Mon, 11/02/2009 - 6:08pm — Tailing the Komets

They were named IHL Goaltender and Rookie of the Week.

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Reaction to the suspensions

By Blake Sebring — Mon, 11/02/2009 - 5:57pm — Tailing the Komets

Couple more facts: Neither coach was fined, the players remain on the salary cap and roster and also continue to get paid.

Brad Jones:

The punishment is based on what I thought was fitting. The fact that both teams are losing a player for a significant amount of time and they remain on the salary cap comes into play.

On Lawmaster: I look at it that he's getting fined and did receive a game misconduct for being the aggressor. I felt that the situation behind the net could have been called a little differently which could have played a role in this.

David Franke:

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Suspensions handed out

By Blake Sebring — Mon, 11/02/2009 - 4:09pm — Tailing the Komets

The league just released the suspensions.

Brad MacMillan gets 15 games.

Robin Big Snake gets XX games.

Jason Lawmaster gets XX games.

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What would you have said...

By Blake Sebring — Mon, 11/02/2009 - 3:19pm — Tailing the Komets

... if say Jason Lawmaster has punched P.C. Drouin under the same circumstances as Brad MacMillan punched Robin Bouchard? Would you have wanted the Komets to go after Todd Robinson on the next faceoff?

In some ways, I can see where you've got three Lumberjacks approaching MacMillan and he probably is figuring he better be the first one to throw one or he might not get the chance. I can also see why the Lumberjacks have the right to be upset about it, too. I can't remember the last time I saw Robin Bouchard fight.

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Need some more riders

By Blake Sebring — Mon, 11/02/2009 - 1:15pm — Tailing the Komets

There are still about 25 spots available on the fan bus going to Friday's game in Flint. This is organized by world-famous blogger and scorekeeper Dennis Schebig. The price of $30 includes round-trip fare and game ticket. He needs at least 55 people or the money will be refunded. Tickets can be purchased at Komet Kuarters. If anyone needs more information, they can call him at 427-3227. Sorry, no alcohol and the bus is non-smoking.

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Today's story

By Blake Sebring — Mon, 11/02/2009 - 10:56am — Tailing the Komets
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Some great WANE video

By Blake Sebring — Sun, 11/01/2009 - 2:34pm — Tailing the Komets

You can watch it here.

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By Blake Sebring — Sat, 10/31/2009 - 11:31pm — Tailing the Komets

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More on the altercation

By Blake Sebring — Sat, 10/31/2009 - 9:56pm — Tailing the Komets

Al Sims said, "I'm not going to say much about it, but obviously, players on the Muskegon bench were told something. I don't know by who, but they went out there and obviously did what someone told them. They did not do that on their own.

"I think it's very tough for Brad and Stayz to stay where they are when your best players who aren't fighters are getting pummeled. I certainly would have loved for him to stay inthe penalty box, but he went out and got retribution for Shaf. I can't fault the guy for wanting to stand up for his teammates. It's a tough call."

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What Mac had to say

By Blake Sebring — Sat, 10/31/2009 - 7:55pm — Tailing the Komets

"From where I was at, Muskegon sent their three guys out there that aren't their big players, their tough players against our guys and they jumped Chaulker and they jumped Shaf. Lawmaster had Shaf on the ground hitting him and there was nobody to break it up. I know what I did was wrong, but somebody has to step in to help there. That's unnecessary. It was unfortunate the way everything happened, and I'm sure there's going to be a suspension dealt out, but what do you do?"

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A Mac attack

By Blake Sebring — Sat, 10/31/2009 - 6:57pm — Tailing the Komets

This ruling from the league will be very interesting.

The Komets and Lumberjacks had a huge melee at the end of the first period Saturday night. First, there was a fight between the Komets' Lincoln Kaleigh Schrock and the Lumberjacks' John DiPace after an incident started when Muskegon's Tom Galvin slashed Brad MacMillan and MacMillan responded with a shove to the face. Both of them received roughing penalties, and MacMillan celebrated on his way to the penalty box as usual.

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Commissioner's thoughts on fighting

By Blake Sebring — Sat, 10/31/2009 - 1:36pm — Tailing the Komets

You can read what the Quad-Cities online wrote about it here.

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Start the bus a little sooner

By Blake Sebring — Fri, 10/30/2009 - 10:28pm — Tailing the Komets

Komets have been out-shot 50-38 and out-scored

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Komets lose

By Blake Sebring — Fri, 10/30/2009 - 10:13pm — Tailing the Komets

The Fort Wayne Komets played one of the strangest games in recent memory on Friday night.

All nine goals were scored on special teams as the PrairieThunder beat the Komets 5-4 in Bloomington.

“We could never get ahead of them in the game,” Komets coach Al Sims said. “We kept tying them and coming back. We had some good chances at the end to tie it but couldn't get one in.”

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