Sorry, didn’t have a chance to post yesterday or this morning. It was not a good night for the Tigers at home Friday night. They seemed to be out played after Hershey scored the 3 and what would be go ahead goal. Nathan Lawson, the 3rd string goalie at the start of the season, is now Bridgeport’s supposed number 1 man between the pipes. Lawson, was run into during the second period by Alexandre Giroux on an apparent elbowing by Ben Walter. There were 2 soft goals let in by Lawson, but he did make some fabulous saves as the Tigers fell 7 points behind Hershey, with 2 games in hand.

After the game, the Tigers made their way to upstate NY to take on the Senators. Lawson, despite losing 2 teeth, started the game and played well. The team took an early 1-0 lead on a nice feed to Andrew MacDonald. Bingo did tie the game on a power play goal, just 17 seconds into the power play.  The Tigers took the lead on a Jesse Joensuu goal and never lost the lead again.

The team will return home tonight for an early 1pm start at the arena where they have only lost 4 games all season. Come support the team as they take on the WBS Penguins. A win against the Pens, would give them at least a 4 point lead over them in the standings.

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Well, I didn’t hear much of this game on the road. The team took a 1-0, but that’s pretty much all the Tigers had. They ended up losing 4-1 to the Providence Bruins in Rhode Island. Peter Mannino playing his first game since the end of December, struggled as Providence got 3 behind him, while 1 was an empty netter.

Trevor Smith scored his first NHL goal on January 8th against the Flames. Shortly after the game he was sent back to Bridgeport along with Yann Danis.

Tonight the Bridgeport Sound Tigers are back home at 7pm against the Hartford Wolfpack. It is another Islanders/Rangers matchup, AHL style.

Hope to see you there.

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Last night the Sound Tigers played host to the Houston Aeros. This was the Aeros first visit to Harbor Yard in nearly 5 years. The game started a bit slow, but the Sound Tigers managed to take a 1-0 after 1 period on a goal by Kurtis McLean (who was passed over for the all-star game).  Sound Tigers came out in the second period and did score a nice goal by Ben Walter to give the Tigers a 2-0 lead.

Now, in the 3rd period, McLean struck again just 10 seconds into the period. From what Mike Fornabaio of the CT POST (Their beat writer), this goal was the fastest goal in the regular season in team history to start a period. Vladimir Nikiforov, who was recently called up with the rash of injuries, took a boarding major. This was discussed by many of us after the game. While the boarding call was the right call, it did not look like a major to many fans. The referee, Terry Koharski obviously so it as a major. On that major, Houston set another record according to Mr. Fornabaio of scoring 3 goals in 82 seconds. Eventually the game went to a shootout where Bridgeport goalie Yann Danis (Now going back to the Islanders) stopped all 4 shots and Bridgeport got 2 of 3 goals to win the game.

Please visit Mike at his blog as well as this blog from a fans prospective.

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