Komets

The whole building feels kind of flat so far, including the teams. Komets are up 1-0 and out-shooting Elmira 10-3. There's been lots of penalties so far, mostly of the obvious variety. Coach is certainly fired up and just drew a bench minor for complaining about a Frank Littlejohn hit on Mike Dombkiewicz. Frenchy looks very sharp.

I heard Joe Franke is going to work the bench on Saturday for Chicago. That could be interesting. It will be good to see Joe again, though I just talked to him two weeks ago.

This is a submission from Hoss:

I don't know if the players read the boards, but I wanted to say a BIG ``Thank You'' to Jonathan Goodwin and JC Ruid. Today they came in to our school and spent time with over 200 3-6 year-old students because we are going to the Komet game as a school Friday.

This letter by UHL President Richard Brosal is from the Rockford Register Star and the reason it's relevant here is because many of these same questions would have to be answered whenever the question of the Komets and the AHL is brought up. These are legitimate questions that have to be answered in Rockford and would have to be answered here before any move could legitimately be made.

You can read the letter here.

Here's some of what he said:

``Not pleased. We never got a shot in the first 10 minutes.

``I saw effort and intensity and caring from certain guys. But every five man unit had somebody out there going through the motions hoping that I wouldn't notice. Their objective wasn't to win but to just get through it tonight. That ticks me off.

If anybody would care to talk about that, you can do it here.

Ks activated A.J. Bozoian before today's game to take the spot by Pascal Morency.

From Mike DeDonker of the Rockford Register Star on the proposed movement of an AHL team to Rockford. I especially thought and agree with Steve Martinson's sentiments. He's right on 100 percent with this.

You can read it here.

For this week is Flint from last Saturday. Starts at 7 p.m. Wedneday on Comcast Ch. 55 and the replay is at 11 a.m. Thurdays.

We're getting close to having something neat from Randi, Tim and Pat on our home page to promo the games of the week if we can get one or two things tweaked. Maybe within the next week or two.
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Komets on campus about what Dave Smith, Bobby Jay and Lee Davidson are doing now can be found here.

It was a lot of fun to talk to those guys again.

I've been thinking a lot lately about trying to quantify the difference between Greg Puhalski and Pat Bingham so I could explain how I see it to you, and there really isn't that much difference other than in personal style. Both are extremely intelligent men and coaches who are the same in terms of drive and the willingness to push their players. You see it more openingly with Bingham, but it was every bit there as much with Puhalski. He was much more private about it and did it behind closed doors. You may not believe that, but it is 100 percent true.