To Mark, Jennifer, Tom, Teresa and David for allowing me to use your quotes with today's rivalry story. If you haven't seen them yet, it's going up on the web as I, uh, type I guess.
The reason that story started was because I walked around the locker room and asked the players who they felt was their favorite rival. There was no consensus at all. A lot of guys had two or three (blasphemy!), which is why I asked the fans in a post a few weeks ago.
Thanks again.
Things found while looking for something else.
The good:
The Komets are 21-4-3 when scoring first.
The Komets are 20-6-3 against non-division leaders.
The Komets' power play has climbed to fifth in the UHL, and the penalty kill to third.
The Komets have out-scored their opponents 46-29 in the first period.
The Komets are 16-3-1 when leading after the first period and 18-1-1 when leading after the second period.
The Komet shooters have the best shootout percentage in the league at .462.
...of why I need to get a life: I was thinking the other day about Paul Willett coming to town for the first time as Port Huron's coach on Wednesday night, and I wondered what the UHL Komets' record was against former Fort Wayne players who became coaches. It's pretty amazing.
Scott Burfoot 4-0-1
Kirk Tomlinson 8-3-1
Shawn Evans 2-1
Brad Jones 9-6-1
Bruce Ramsay 6-2
Donnie Martin 2-0
Lonnie Loach 11-1
Kevin Kaminski 9-4-2
Paul Willett 1-0-1
That includes a 29-7-1 mark at home. Whoda thunk?
Well, how about that third period? I'll tell you, that was one of the quietest locker rooms I've been in for a while.
What do you expect to see? It sounds like the team is playing more physical of late, but do you think that will continue tonight? I'm thinking it will if for no other reason than the boys can put Elmira away early if they do, and they realize they have to start performing better at home.
What do you think?
Oh, and hi Preston.
This one comes from Ronn, who wants to know who everybody thinks was the best fighter(s) the Komets have had, and who they have fought against. Now it's easy for everybody to say Fletch, and who could argue, but try to think of specific incidents maybe that stood out for you. Think of opponents as well.
I'll start. Though I didn't see it, Bob Fitchner challenging the entire Flint team in 1973 should have been something, especially when no one had the guts to immediately accept the challenge. Now that's tough.
Today start's the listing of what former Komets are still playing in the at a glance segment. You can get to it by tapping on the Komets coverage link to the left. If they changed teams within the past three weeks, the listings might be a tad off, but I think they are pretty accurate. It takes about five hours to track them all down, and I'm sure I haven't got them all. Have fun.
The Komets have something new on their website and have asked that it be publicized here. They now have a spot on their homepage for ideas and input from fans.
http://www.komets.com/fanideaspage.htm"
or you can e-mail them at fanideas@komets.com
“The Komets will attempt to respond to All Emails that are presented in a professional, polite, and constructive manner within Two(2) Business Days''
So have at it.
Komets defenseman Jason Kean announced his retirement today after missing most of the season with a concussion. Kean suffered his third concussion in November, and resumed skating in practice two weeks ago.
``I just was kind of fed up with being injured all the time,'' Kean said. ``I thought about it (before), but I figured it would be all right to go back out and skate again. In practice I felt good, but every time after I would get sick. This has been the worst. It's been tough because it has affected my whole life.''
I didn't get to go to Kalamazoo tonight, but just listening to the game you could tell it was a lot of fun. What I'm wondering is, what did the folks who got to go to Kzoo think? A little role reversal here. You report for me for once. LOL. Who looked good, who looked bad, what was the Chaulk-Turner fight like?
