Brent Henley has an orange beard, Olivier Legault has an orange mohawk and Kevin Bertram has red hair.
Bob Langdon is the referee.
We'll see if she does it, but a very special person to the Komets is supposedly going to be wearing an orange wig. We'll see.
Muskegon just arrived at the coliseum, about 45 minutes late because of overheating bus issues. It shouldn't affect things too much.
Robin Bouchard won't play tonight and may miss the other two games this weekend because of concussion issues.
Tonight's playoff game will air Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 9 a.m. on Comcast 55 and Verizon 25.
Anybody know where I can find Andy Milne, Gerry Fleury or Mike McKay? I'm trying to put together a Where are they now? list for the next Komets book and those are the only three guys I haven't been able to find who played here at least one season. I've got to have the entire book finished by the end of the playoffs. So far I've found more than 800 former players. The book will be out opening night next season.
The International Hockey League (IHL) announced Thursday the 2007-08 All-Rookie Team as selected by league head coaches, general managers, and members of the media.
2007-08 IHL FIRST TEAM ALL-STARS
Goaltender
The International Hockey League (IHL) announced Thursday the 2007-08 First Team All-Stars as selected by league head coaches, general managers, and members of the media.
2007-08 IHL FIRST TEAM ALL-STARS
Goaltender
The best things about playoff hockey are....
Overtimes
No shootouts
Whiteouts or Orange outs
Post-series handshakes
Janice Shepler's ``It's time to get loud'' monster sign
6 p.m. Sunday starts
Seeing more FW fans at road games
Driving all night and still going to work in the morning
Reliving fantastic memories
Watching line matchups develop
Defensive shadows like Peter Hankinson
Rumors of what injuries actually are
Wondering if this will be the last time you hear Bob Chase on the Komets (it won't be)
Hot goaltenders
Playoff beards/haircuts
Blocked shots
There are a couple of stories. The first one is here, and the second one is here. There's a graphic to go with the second story, but you'll have to read the paper to see it. Also, check out the awesome photos. LOL.
These are under the category there are three kinds of lies: lies, d--- lies and statistics. Mark Twain said it originally. But they are still interesting.
* Entering these playoffs, the Komets have a lot less playoff championship experience than they usually do. Only Al Sims and Guy Dupuis from the 1993 Komets and Colin Chaulk and Kevin Bertram from the 2003 Komets have won pro playoff championships. Brandon Warner was part of Michigan State's 2007 NCAA championship team.
ROUND 1
Muskegon Mike Olynyk, F- Port Huron (delete Chris Kovalcik, LW)
Flint Chris Kovalcik, LW- Muskegon (delete Brett Westgarth, D)
Luciano Aquino was named rookie of the month and Kevin Reiter the goaltender of the month.
We'll also have a playoff preview in tomorrow's paper.
Guy Dupuis is defenseman of the week and Luciano Aquino is rookie of the week. Jaroslav Cesky of Flint was forward of the week and Luc Lacasse of Bloomington was goaltender of the week.
We've got this week's Komets clip up at http://fwnextweb1.fortwayne.com/ns/video/komets/ and as a bonus we've got the gang's interview with IHL President Paul Pickard at http://fwnextweb1.fortwayne.com/ns/video/pickard/
Thanks to Pat Stelte for the hustle. He's da man!
The Komets have moved Olivier Legault to the non-roster spot so they retain his rights, and they have waived Maksim Shirokov. Shirokov will go through the IHL waiver draft at 4 p.m. Tuesday. Komets General Manager David Franke informed the players this morning.
As for Legault, Franke said, ``We will retain his rights for the rest of the year and into the summer and we have explained to him that we still want him to be part of our team next year and he definitely wants to play here again next year. We just explained it was a numbers situation.''
It's waiting for approval from Muskegon, but the first three dates are solid.
Game 1: Friday, April 18 in Fort Wayne
Game 2: Saturday, April 19 in Muskegon
Game 3: Sunday, April 20 in Fort Wayne
Game 4: Wednesday, April 23 in Muskegon
Game 5: Friday, April 25 in Fort Wayne
Game 6: Saturday, April 26 in Muskegon
Game 7: Tuesday, April 29 in Fort Wayne
Is up at News-Sentinel.com and includes a column on the IHL's playoff roster policy.
What do you think about facing the Fury in the first round?
There are still about 1,000 tickets left but they are going quickly if you want to grab some. That also means you might want to arrive a little earlier than normal or you could miss the pregame ceremonies and trophy awards from the league.
It's on the roster decisions they are going to have to make. You can read it here.
