In Glacialis Blog

Yesterdays’ Boston Globe comprehendo an article in Sarcalogos Bourques’ NHLs’ debut permaneo Tuesday. NHL dico- sursum venit mane satis pro suus parentes proficiscor quod vigilo venatus ex sto. Sarcalogos’ praeclarus abbas, Ray, had nonnullus aula-of- laus precipio pro suus filius secundum venatus.

“is sententia EGO ludio ludius vere puteus, quod iustus told mihi ut exsequor bonus opus” said Christopher, cuius sermo exemplum quod accent es virtually identical ut suus dads’. “is iustus volo mihi facio is a ferreus sententia pro lemma transmitto mihi down, quod, hey, obviously is est qua Volo moror. Ive’ been somnium super is meus universus vita”

Chis quoque orator of suus amplitudo.

“ego sentio vere bonus procul is pondus, EGO sentio velox sicco illic” said Bourque. “Ive’ nunquam vultus procul meus amplitudo ut quispiam ut held mihi tergum, vere. EGO inviso is ut an contraho. Ive’ got a mugio center of sepulchrum, quod ut planto is ferreus mihi impetro conicio off puck. Sic, suus’ an commodum mihi non a infitialis”

Lego ceterus procul Boston Globe website.

Per John Waltons’ Blog, Walton, Wired quod Unwired, Sarcalogos Bourque has been repeto quod should exsisto in tonights’ versus obviam Atlanta.

Apprised of Comcasts’ commitment ut Caps is week, EGO verto in Comcast SportsNet moment EGO supervenio domus ex opus Monday nox noctis, quod left is illic. Quis EGO vigilo super tunc quattuor hora attonitus mihi.

EGO saw novus Comcast Caps’ pello pepulli pulsum opinio Lisa Tumulosus bulla populus a season praevius alongside Joe Nidor. EGO saw iustus super totus of Alexander Ovechkins’ primoris- umquam NHL venatus (Id’ forgotten ut is eram a flubbed breakaway ex a hat furta ut nox noctis). Tunc EGO saw JoeB quod Craig populus alius bulla dimidium hora, “Caps Narro” proalius team praevius. Spondeo pro Comcasts’ “SportsNight” ut secuutus pollicitus vel magis Caps’ occulto.

Is eram “Monday Nox noctis Hockey in Washington,” nimirum.

Caput capitis Cogo Glen Hanlon eram interviewed in depth per Tumulosus. GMGM eram thoughtfully interviewed, tandem, quod is dummodo suus usitas thoughtful restituo. Key alio — Sarcalogos Expedio, Olie Kolzig, Tom Venenum, Nicklas Backstrom, Michael Nylander — totus took volvit pro Comcasts’ venit. Tarik El Vercundus’ segment per Joe quod Craig EGO sententia eram a highlight of universus nox noctis. (Tarik, verus effingo, dedi a siccus quod mediocris assessment amid vallum bene engulfing norma mane is autumn. Caps, is said, could perago usquam “ ex sedecim ut decimus” in Orientales placitum)

Broadcast Susurro super pro hockey in D.C. illa dies? Umm, etiam — tantum si vos contemplor totus- perussi, singulus- thema pietas per locus lusum television exitus ut urbs’ rutilus- caput capitis stepchild of pro teams “ susurro”- testimonium. Promptus suus’ iens ut exsisto amo is reliquum of week sulum vesper in Comcast.

Procul unus cuspis per prime vicis proceedings EGO saw Joe quod Craig mico in screen multiple-screen listings of Caps’ prospicio. EGO saw nomen Michal Neuvirth, Simeon Varlamov, Karl Alzner, Joe Finley, Mathieu Perreault, Suffragium Bouchard, Dave Steckel, quod Sarcalogos Bourque, totus broadcast in an exitus ut nunquam in suus vita held an muneris fantasy hockey lacus. Ne multus, is eram amo a effrego exhockeysfuture, quod duos DraftGeeks pensio sicco Comcast bulla quod condita amo Wayne quod Garth in locus cable obvius.

Wayne, er, JoeB: “inviso totus is talentum in pipeline, Dude!”

Garth, er, Craig ( caput capitis gallo): “Praeclarus!”

Is est quis importo unus Canuck can operor ut an exitus!

Magis serio, Tumulosus eram hired accerso suus NHL occulto usus ut Comcast. in- domus hockey talentum eram significant, si sub-appreciated quod grossly sub- utilitas, tamen had exitus umquam jactito a dedicated opinio in pello pepulli pulsum? Tunc Im’ iens ut refer ut occulto sententia amo Comcasts’ huic week havent’ res in a vacuum, quod ut theyre’ a prenuncius of melior occulto advenio, procer quod broadcast, institutio quod alternative. Ut an ambitus, suus’ fashionable, nimirum: Caps may non planto is ut postseason is annus, tamen they mos non exsisto plumbeus.

Tamen nimirum Im’ a subscriber ut ratio ut a interventus revolution huic team quod suus lusum est puteus sub illa dies, in illa secui.

Im’ quoque, procul weeks’ terminus, ut is tentatio run in Comcast terminatio, planning in decens a subscriber ut CapsTV.

Ut Palaestra Castra sensim ( sic sensim) propinquo, nos certus sumo a velox inviso nonnullus of novus visio, reverto, hopefuls quod permaneo-chancers ut ero vying parumper macula in Caps’ porro somes. Pugna procul plures socors es specto, quod is may exsisto unus of plurrimi competitive castra in Caps’ history.

Primoris, puteus’ probatur porro, a humus ut suscipio an infusion of talentum down medius quod added a veteran ustulo volatilis:

Nicklas Backstrom – youngster est seemingly a obfirmo pro magnus squad. A lubricus- obduco center per hockey voluntas quod puck- imperium, plurrimi infigo res super suus venatus procul is cuspis may exsisto suus intentio ut ceterus terminus of glacies. Suus awareness quod positus vacuus puck, iugo per suus creativity quod visum should exsisto a beneficium ut aut of Caps’ elite left volatilis. Pes volo est a sollicitudo, quod dum is won’t supervenio in North America ut idem eadem idem fanfare ut Alex Ovechkin did, “Next Valde Swede” mos have totus eyes of suus terra super him.

(persevero)

Herewith, nostrum rudimentum struo profundum Carnotense pro Caps ut congruo per repens peractio of teams’ annual Rookie Development Castra. Suus’ maximus ut nota ut per is nos es non forecasting imprimis versus certamen tamen quinymo rudimentum ut socors ludio ludius per positus secundum suum professio uber quod plurimus repens effectus in censeo occasus. Suus’ quoque maximus ut nota ut a numerus of porro in Caps’ ratio lascivio praeter unus positus sursum frons. Russian elites quod Res Pettinger videor crines in laevus levus pro puteus in tunc decade, quod vox pars videor gero plures question vestigium.

Weve’ envisioned is ut a lima hopefully mico ferox reaction quod pius challenge. Nos exspectata vestri propono modifications.

Nick Backstrom volo est suscito in quod of ipsum, tamen is quoque semino aliquantulus of an prefero momentum: huic estas of change, quis’ tunc? Quod quis’ tunc may supervenio ocius quam vos reputo, si vestri’ promptus puto ut Caps mos sit per idly quod patienter specto July 1s’ adventum. Peius’ beneficium a 50-lb. pera of Defaeco siccus victus pro bellator dogs ut they dont’.

Procul a minimum, Caps postulo a caput capitis- versus center quod a caput capitis- iugum tutaminis. Procul a minimum. Insofar ut porro additions es sollicitus, vero, Imperator Procurator George McPhee seemingly must inventor suus norma’ possessiones of posterus caput capitis-6 talentum pro potentially inking an carus quod nomen solvo procurator ut a porro-term paciscor. Tier EGO UFAs procul ullus positus dont’ subcribo quondam vel duos- annus paciscor, quod dum forsitan tantum Tomas Fleischmann down in agri est primed pro frons- versus proveho is cado, secundum him, quinymo near-term, illic es magis magnus-minute men mereo vercundus seasoning absentis. Si Caps subcribo unus vel duos altus- pretium solvo procurator porro is estas, ut paciscor servo lemma in Caps’ sudo firmus in tunc decade, quis venio ut teams’ altus- terminus kids? Operor they totus adepto paciscor?

A magnus questionmark theca vox pennae Eric Fehr illa dies. Is has a wonky tergum, quod suus’ non ostendo ultum subcribo of lenimentus ex treatment is ver. Tamen vindicatum suus recuperatio, illic can exsisto haud denego suus posterus fixture in unus of Caps’ caput capitis duos versus. Nunc.

Permaneo weekend Pium Novus’ Tim Leone told mihi ut Sarcalogos Bourque est a rectum obfirmo ut skate center vel pennae in Hersheys’ caput capitis versus tunc season. Suus cogo told mihi mane is ver ut CBourques’ a posterus NHLer. Should ut adeo fructus, is moris’ exsisto in Caps’ vel quisquam alius’ tertius vel quartus versus. Hes’ a playmaker per altus- terminus hockey voluntas, quod suus season of volatilis development iam has multus of Caps’ orichalcum reputo him a annus a res promptus. Dumtaxat.

Hic es nonnullus magis prospicio nomen prorsus incongruus pro tertius- quod quartus- versus officium: Suffragium Bouchard, plumbum ustulo in Q is preteritus season ( nonnullus video reputo hes’ in lascivio parumper Caps’ pennae macula is cado) quod Mathieu Perreault, suus MVP. Perreault seemingly has aliquantum of physical development prosequor, quod is can exsisto stashed tergum in Q is coming season quod subsequently in Ipsa parumper iugo of seasons . . . nisi is Denis Torva lookalike sermo has substantia secundum is. Tamen Bouchard videor promptus pro assignment in American League pronto, quod suus apprenticeship illic videor amo futurus of brevis-term schedule.

In dies ut Andrew Gordon eram subcribo permaneo mensis EGO asked GM McPhee super him, quod is told mihi ut Gordon would satus in Ipsa is cado tamen ut illic eram a sanus chance hed’ exsisto an in-season dico. Im’ non convinced ut suus ceiling ut a pro est in reprehendo versus persona. Suus centum-plus cuspis quod Totus- Placitum designo intus contraho hockeys’ premiere vox placitum certainly dont’ innutum is. Lee Stempniak, a Puteulanus’ medium- rotundus pick quisnam loco sursum magnus numerus in ECAC, est testimonium ut castra levitas can offendo laxus in draft. Nos operor teneo ut Gordon left St. Cloud per magis susurro quam Stempniak did. Iustus sententia.

Suus’ iustus unus sententia, tamen nuper ESPNs’ John Bucchigross gave erumpo ut a vegetus versus of reputo super quis could exsisto Caps’ primary offseason ars. Is memoratus a singulus professio informatio, unus plures nostrum have porro tabesco pro ( pium Mara), tunc restituo ut suus tabellae scriptor, “ si EGO erant Caput . . . EGO would subsisto loco, servo lascivio tener ludio ludius quod servo contraho caput capitis-10 picks. Teams planto erroris ut they opprimo pro mediocris ludio ludius. Ut est nex”

decor of an acquisition via professio est ut vos hereditas a ultum curtus pactum term, affording suscipio team enviable quod, seemingly in Caps’ theca, ultum- postulo flexibility.

Conventional sapientia — utriusque intus quod foris Caps’ norma — est ut team est gravis in tertius- quod quartus- versus talentum utriusque in current parentis roster quod in development pipeline. Ut’ facillimus assessment facio. Quod is may puteus exsisto plurrimi sagaciter. Tamen per talis an ubertas of altus drafted talentum, magis nuper combined per award- victor quod totus- placitum mereo ornamentum us summitto in draft, Inquam vigilo sicco pro unus vel duos frons- versus breakthroughs. nunc Id’ amo is ut venio hic.

Meditatus ut is Ipsa Gero’ postseason apparatus est absentis nonnullus notabilis secui ex suus Calder Vas run of permaneo ver: haud Boyd Gordon, haud caput Graham Mink, haud vox lascivio QB Lawrence Nycholat, haud Kris Beech, haud Revolvo Laich, haud minutes-eating Jake Talea. Inter alius. Tamen symphony carmen of victoria somes idem eadem idem sub maestro Boudreau. A formidable Manchester Monarchia’ stipes eram run ex Giant Center Imbuo nox noctis, 7-2. Prothoplastus stipes- venatus beer inter press sarcina hadnt’ been iuguolo pro unus scriptor palam admiratio, “Did vos guys animadverto quicumque innutum is moris’ exsisto a verrimus?”

A serius- oris thrashing doesnt’ usquequaque predico a teams’ demise, tamen huic instance, Manchester has habeo sepulchrum sollicitudo super mens of suus plurimus maximus ludio ludius, netminder Jason LaBarbera. LaBarbera won leagues’ optimus goaltender award is season pro alter vicis in suus AHL tutela, tamen suus pessimus effectus of season have res obviam Ipsa. Is added sibimet Imbuo nox noctis, per Caput capitis Cogo Vestigium Morris yanking him secundum is trado suus sedecim calx of conflictus per praeter duodeviginti minutes super in venatus. LaBarbera has visio Gero three vicis is season quod been yanked in duos of lemma.

Ipsa vox lascivio Imbuo nox noctis, afforded six vicis, converted in 50 sentio of lemma. Gero’ poena iuguolo snuffed sicco totus six Manchester vir- sursum vicis, quod added a brevis pro bonus postulo.

Etiamnunc iterum Tomas Fleischmann vultus sublimis quod spectacular, dispensatio savvy setups pro suus teammates crebro. Suus three succurro Imbuo nox noctis gave him duodeviginti cuspis in suus permaneo duos venatus, utriusque of lemma magnus venatus pro suus hockey stipes. Persona, venatus’ three astrum erant awarded ut Dave Steckel, Mike Viridis, quod Frederic Cassivi, tamen Mike Vogel quod EGO had identical sto intentio album of Steckel, Mico, quod Sarcalogos Bourque. Bourque had been nomen haud. 1 astrum in sulum of ordinarius season placitum per Manchester, quod is added alius validus effectus ( duos succurro) Imbuo.

cuspis est ut Boudreau is postseason est questus species quod uber ex totus quattuor of suus porro versus, quod efficens puck tractus ex totus three of suus defensabiliter iugum.

Mane in tertius period Imbuo nox noctis Comcasts’ Joe Nidor nitor super ut mihi quod said, “ operor vos animadverto quatenus Sarcalogos Bourque has progressio una annus?” EGO operor. Quod EGO should have told Joe ut Dave Steckels’ progressio permaneo duos seasons sub Boudreau has been vel magis infigo. Quod album of puteus developed sub Boudreau aegre ends illic.

Vogel quod EGO erant left lentesco-jawed a dimidium dozen vicis Imbuo nox noctis per virga veneficus of Fleischmann. Hes’ iens ludo in NHL, alicubi, nos congruo. “Hes’ got effercio vos cant’ docui” Vogel told mihi. Tamen EGO fatigo super Mico questus lost in amplitudo numerus venatus in D.C., proprie ut nos propinquo altus talea ‘07-08 season quod illic’ seemingly minor cella pro tener guy minutes per coegi pro macula haud. 8 in Oriens. “ego fatigo super nos giving sursum in Mico quod seeing alius [Andrew] Brunnette talea ex nostrum manuum” EGO told Vogel.

Plures of nomen in tergus of Gero’ sudo change, tamen postseason praecessi subsisto idem eadem idem. Should Gero vado in ut oust Manchester, they mos ligo an AHL record in victor septem consecutive postseason serius. Utpote Boudreau stepped secundum Gero’ scamnum theyve’ lost iustus unus serius- oris venatus, ut Milwaukee in permaneo seasons’ Calder denique. Theyve’ ludio ludius 32 postseason venatus super sub suus procuratio, quod theyve’ won an stupendum 25 of lemma. Magis prodigialiter, tantum quattuor of teams’ septem postseason damnum have adveho in ordinatio. EGO postulo ut typus ut iterum pro myself ut puto is: quattuor ordinatio damnum in 32 lascivio venatus super duos seasons.

Quodplures illorum venatus have been conflictus obviam centum-pt. AHL foes.

Seemingly sexaginta guys have worn Gero’ sudo is season ut a ordinarius orbis of dico quod significant pestifer vastata Ipsa roster. Haud res. Wins quod versus cohesion subsisto.

Boudreau has been nomen Cogo of Annus in IHL, hes’ won ECHLs’ Kelly Vas, quod hes’ won a Calder Vas quod may exsisto in vergo of consummatio alius. Vos have ut admiratio quantus diutius suus eximius victor mores mos permaneo unnoticed per NHL.

Oriens denique es res conflictus in a 2-3-2 slate, condita Sundays’ velox turnaround subsisto a must- lucror res pro salutor. Vestigium Morris postulo a Jason LaBarbera nos havent’ seen obviam Ipsa etiamnunc is season. Quod voluntas haud irreverens ut cogo, tamen multus of folks sursum in Novus Hampshire quisnam testis primoris- manus manus Bruce Boudreaus’ opus illic super quattuor seasons would is oriens forsit dico vos ut having him tergum would succurro quoque.

Quisnam would have coniecto ut in a 6-5 venatus Alexandre Giroux would have been held off scoresheet? Jacub Klepis, vero, eram non — is had three succurro tonight. Sarcalogos Bourque skated a +3 in vesper. Gero, quisnam iam own a 2-1 plumbum in serius, victum Albanys’ 43-24 commodum in offa.

Venatus 4 est Monday nox noctis.

This is an extraordinary weekend for the Hershey Bears. Here’s the lowdown:

• They defeat Wilkes Barre Friday night on the road, either in regulation or overtime, and they win the American League’s East Division and they secure the best overall record in the entire American Hockey League. In other words, home ice advantage all the way through the postseason. Last year, the Bears won the Calder Cup on the road in Milwaukee; I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t much mind seeing that title secured in the Giant Center this spring, with Caps’ management and legions of D.C. puckheads in the chocolate house.
• Friday’s is the first game of another three-game weekend, this being the final weekend of play in the American League’s regular season. The Bears do need points this weekend, and they’ll have to earn them on the road. They visit Binghamton Saturday and Philadelphia on Sunday.
• Months ago conventional wisdom was that whoever emerged from the East in the playoffs would have a strong chance at the Calder Cup. Why? Well, Wilkes Barre already has 50 wins on the season. Hershey, with 49, is almost certain to arrive at it. Norfolk has 48. It’s entirely possible that for the first time in the history of the American League three teams in the same division win 50 games. Get out of the East Division this postseason and the rest almost seems like boat drinks with bikinied deckhands.
• The Bears won’t lack for quality or depth this weekend. Or this postseason. Assigned to them since the Caps completed their season last weekend: Mike Green, Tomas Fleischmann, Eric Fehr, and Dave Steckel. Jeff Schultz joined Hershey the previous week. Can you say stacked?
• Both Dave Steckel and Chris Bourque are lodged at 58 points and have legtimate shots at 60-pt. seasons. Way back in October I had a chat with an OFB friend with a pro scouting background who had this to say of CBourque: “I’d keep an eye on Chris Bourque. Remember, he played prep school hockey and one year for a bad BU team. Last year was his first true exposure to pro style hockey. Now that he’s had a taste and knows how to prepare, I expect him to have a big jump in production.” Steckel’s next goal will be his 30th on the campaign. He is an eye-popping +25 for Coach Boudreau.
• Bears’ management hasn’t been shy about getting games for recent Caps’ signees. Steve Pinizzotto has three games under his belt, Sean Collins has two games and is a +1, and Andrew Joudrey has perhaps made the most conspicuous debut among the NCAA arrivals, with a goal and an assist in three games while skating a +2. Andrew Gordon may arrive in a few weeks to bolster further one of the league’s most lethal attacks, too.

At Saturday’s end-of-season Clyde’s gathering of bloggers and their loyalists, we learned from Blogger Rebecca of A View from the Cheap Seats of her plan to drive up to Hershey on Sunday for the Bears’ game. Likely she was going to pen an account of this visit for her blog anyway, but when we asked if she’d mind serving as a correspondent for us as well (We’ve been out drinking with JP before on a Saturday night — we don’t do road trips the day after that), she enthusiastically said absolutely. What she’s authored today is a detailed narrative of a fabulous culmination to perhaps the Bears’ best weekend of the season: six points capped off by a Sunday night snuffing out of Wilkes Barre-Scranton.

Rebecca wasn’t quite prepared for Hershey’s outpuring of Bears’ love, which clogs the routes into the Giant Center, adorns the bumpers of many Pennsylavania automobiles, and fuels the fashion sense of scores of Bears’ faithful.

“I started spotting people in the cars around us clad entirely in Bears’ gear. I don’t really know why we were so excited by that – maybe it’s just the sight of people who actually love hockey, something so rare in this football-mad area. Walking through the parking lot towards Giant Center we passed cars with Hershey Bears vanity plates and bumper stickers, families dressed in matching Hershey jerseys, kids waving foam bear claws excitedly, all hoping for a Bears victory to cap off their weekend.”

We’ve reported on the breakthrough seasons of Dave Steckel and Chris Bourque here at OFB, but Rebecca puts a fantastic exclamation point on those accounts with her eyewitness one from Sunday. If you’re harboring any notions of a trek northward this spring to see some outstanding American Hockey League action, in the awesome atmosphere of the Giant Center, give Rebecca’s recap a read as further inducement.

Friday night on the road in Wilkes Barre-Scranton, with the baby Penguins hot on their heels, just two points back of them in the Eastern division, the Hershey Bears skated a statement game, shutting out their hosts 3-0 behind yet another Frederick Cassivi classic. Chris Bourque knocked Wilkes Barre netminder Nolan Schaefer out of the game with a blast shot to the mask that bloodied the goalie’s nose.

Saturday night, back at the Giant Center, CBourque added a hat trick and four points in leading the Bears to a huge 6-5 win over Bridgeport. With Norfolk losing at Albany, the Bears once again gained control of first place in the East. The victory was the Bears’ seventh straight, their longest win-streak of the season. They have 104 points on the season, with eight games still remaining.

Last season, in his first full tour of duty in the A, Bourque had 8 goals and 28 assists and was largely a healthy, non-playing witness to the Bears’ Calder Cup postseason run. This season, through 62 games, he has 23 goals and 28 assists, and he’ll play a lead role in the Bears’ postseason run this time around.

With its victory over Springfield 4-2 at the Giant Center last night, the Hershey Bears tied Norfolk with 96 points and grabbed a share of first place in the AHL’s East division. Norfolk and Hershey are also tied for the most points in the American League. The win also clinched a playoff berth for the Bears.

Chris Bourque became the seventh Bear to score 20 goals on the season.

The Bears have a game in hand with Nolfolk as well.

Note that Philadelphia puck suckitude is enjoyed by both parent and farm club.

1. Hershey 68 42 14 6 6 96 pts. 0.706 261 195 7-1-1-1
2. Norfolk 69 45 18 5 1 96 pts. 0.696 262 219 6-3-1-0
3. Wilkes-Barre 67 43 18 2 4 92 pts. 0.687 237 189 7-3-0-0
4. Albany 67 32 30 3 2 69 pts. 0.515 200 210 5-4-1-0
5. Bridgeport 66 31 29 1 5 68 pts. 0.515 194 216 3-6-0-1
6. Philadelphia 68 27 33 2 6 62 pts. 0.456 189 228 5-4-0-1
7. Binghamton 67 19 40 3 5 46 pts. 0.343 190 264 2-7-1-0

More from the Farm: Travis Morin, playing in his first professional hockey game, scored a third-period, game-winning goal this past Sunday to give the South Carolina Stingrays a 3-2 come-from-behind win over the Pensacola Ice Pilots.