Komets

There's a feature today on the art of faceoffs that you can read here, and this week's video clip is up here from Pat, Randi and Tim.

Can be read here as part of our Sunday on-line section.

Can be read here as part of our Sunday on-line section.

Komets look kind of flat again, and Flint leads 3-2. I think the Generals have had three good scoring chances all night and they have scored on all three. They were all directly the result of a Komets turnover at their own blue line or an odd-man rush when a forward didn't get back.

 For those who are wondering, Mitch Woods is dressed, but has a sore knee.

So far there have been 17 penalties called. Two guesses who the ref is and the first one doesn't count. Figured you'd know that one.

Former Komet great Al Dumba is in town checking out his son Jared who plays for the Generals.

I can't believe this one. Since the Komets lost 9-3 at Flint on Dec. 28, they have gone 28-5-2, and David Hukalo and Mathieu Curadeau, their top-line penalty killing forwards, have been on the ice for only five power-play goals against. That's remarkable.

P.C. Drouin who had so many chances early in the game but couldn't score, gets the last chance late to tie the game and then scored the first goal in the shootout.

Al Sims on General Manager David Franke celebrating on the horn: ``I thought David had a heart attack and fell on the horn there at the end because it had to be going for at least a minute. I said, God, somebody get David's body off the horn. It was unbelievable.''

The Komets are getting sucked into playing Kalamazoo's style, and it's 1-1 after two periods. The Wings are doing a great job of clogging up the middle with their defense, causing the Komets all kinds of problems and slowing them down. Nick Boucher has made some excellent saves so far, and Jeff Reynaert has been just as hot for the Wings. Referee Kevin Graber is letting them play, and the Komets need to quit griping about it.

He'll miss at least the next four games. The Komets activated Terry Marchant off IR to take his spot.

 It's always fun for me to watch when Kalamazoo comes to town because that mean's Karlander vs. Marchant in the faceoffs. The game within the game type thing.

 And, no, before someone asks, I don't vote on the league awards and haven't for three or four years. To me, it's an ethical question.

You know how Bob always talks about the coliseum being ``the big ice'' and the Michigan teams always having ``the smaller ice?'' I've been trying to do some research on that to find out exactly what the dimensions are. We know for  fact that Port Huron is smaller, about 185 X 85. Team officials in those other cities have told me that Flint and Kalamzoo are exactly regulation, 200 X 85, and that Muskegon might be a tad smaller, but not by much, maybe a foot or two. The funny thing is, somebody from Muskegon told me that Kalamazoo is definitely smaller.

I was talking with Eddie Long this week about a couple things and this is what he has to say about this year's team tying the 1963-64 team's record for consecutive home wins: