Last Wednesday night/Thursday it was discovered that for the first time in the 70 year+ history that an AHL team was involved in a serious accident. The Albany River Rats were on their way home from their game in Lowell against the Devils. Their bus broke down and they had to wait 2 1/2 hours for a replacement bus. Several members of the team were seriously hurt. While most members of the team were released from the hospital, one remained until yesterday. He joined the team and they were all happy to see him.

The next day, the Rats were scheduled to play the Sound Tigers in Albany. That game as well as Sunday’s game was canceled for the obvious reasons. Tonight, for the first time the Rats take the ice to face the Sound Tigers, only this one is in Bridgeport.

Most fans are planning to give the Rats a warm reception, at least until the puck drops.

In other Sound Tiger news, the team is currently on a 5-0-0-2 streak and slowly creeping towards the WBS Penguins and the Hershey Bears. This up coming weekend, the Tigers will play a home and home against the Penguins. These are the last 2 regular season games this year they will play.

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Well, the Sound Tigers returned home after a disappointing 1-2 road trip in Norfolk and Philadelphia. After dropping into 4th place, the Sound Tigers managed a 4-3 thriller over the San Antonio Rampage,  at the Arena at Harbor Yard. The win moved the team 1 point ahead of the Binghamton Senators into third place.

San Antonio took the lead during the first period on a goal against Tobais Stephan, a conditioning goalie from the Dallas Stars. The Tigers would tie the game at 1 later in the first period. The Rampage took a 2-1 lead in the second period and kept that lead into the 3rd period.

The Rampage then took a 3-1 lead about 4 minutes into the 3rd. During the period,  the Sound Tigers failed to capitalize on a couple of Rampage penalties. For the first time in at least 10 games, Jamie Fraser lit the lamp to cut the San Antonio lead to 3-2 at the 12:07 mark. The teams then hit center ice for a face off which the Sound Tigers won. Just 8 second later, Jeremy Colliton lifted a gorgeous shot up and over the Rampage goalie and just into the net for the tying goal.

Finally, we were sent home very happy as Mike Iggulden scored on the power play in overtime. With the win, the Tigers not only gain points on Binghamton, but Hershey lost as well. The WBS Penguins however did win last night, so the Tigers still trail them by 6 points in the standings.

Thanks for reading and see you Friday.

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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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