Greetings from the Carolinas!

A 4-2 win tonight in front of 12,000+.

Dustin Jeffrey must read my blog. I ripped him last game because of his lackluster showing v. Adirondack. He had 2 goals, a power play goal and a short handed one. He took 9 SOG and was your first star.

Veilleux, CPZ and Ryan Craig all were not dressed and did not take warmups. In Bombulie’s post gamer, he said that CPZ has been shipped to The Nail and was in the lineup there.

Brad Thiessen v. Justin Pogge. For WBS, Steve Wagner, Tim Wallace and Brett Sterling wore the “A”‘s.

After a pregame that lasted nearly an hour (ticket said 7, game started circa 7:40) Dustin Jeffrey dispossessed Pogge and scored the first goal at 8:45. I don’t know what Pogge was doing or thinking when he came out to play the puck, but we took it.

Right around the end of the first, some kid called Eric Tangradi scored a goal in Pittsburgh for the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Jerome Samson struck to tie the game, but just like that Dustin Jeffrey is sprung on a breakaway and absolutely makes Justin Pogge look stupid with fakes and buries it backhanded. 2-1.

Joe Vitale scored a goal. He always plays hard. Hard work pays off.

I have no idea what Zach Sill was thinking when he gave it away and let Charlotte back into it when Oskar Osala scored.

Steve Wagner snuck in and made it 4-2 and that was pretty much it. A few things:

Joe Mormina played tonight. This pretty much spells the end of the Drew Fata experiment.

Another pedestrian game by Brett Sterling. Maybe teams focus too much on him, and he just passes off  his teammates score. I don’t know. He’ll have a break out game soon.

Brad Thiessen saw everything tonight. I mean everything. He couldn’t do anything with the 5 on 3 or the busted play on the Sill giveaway.

This game reminded me a lot of the Albany / WBS playoff series last year. For everything we did in that series, the River Rats were a step ahead of us. Same story tonight, only WBS was the team with the answers.

We are still in first place. Hershey destroyed Binghamton 7-1 tonight. Brian Willsie had a 4 point night (1-3) Sheldon Souray was a +3. Aucoin had 2 assists, Andrew Gordon had a goal and an assist, it goes on and on.

Norfolk shut out the Worcester Sharks 4-0, and don’t look now but the Adirondack Phantoms defeated the Syracuse Crunch 3-2 and are in 4th place very early in the East.

Off day tomorrow for WBS, as every team in the league skates tomorrow except WBS and Charlotte. I’ll be watching some games on AHL Live. Later!

I know I said I wasn’t going to do postgamers for every game, but I don’t know if I am totally committed to doing this yet or not. I am for this game so here goes:

A 2-1 Wilkes-Barre victory tonight. I thought it was a terrible game. It is the Adirondack Phantoms, not the Hershey Bears or Norfolk Admirals. Nothing went right tonight. Not a thing. Yes, we killed all six Phantoms penalties but were not able to cash in but for once on TEN penalties, including nearly five minutes in the second where we had two five on threes.

I would go back and link my tweets, but looks like Twitter is having issues again with it’s timeline. It happens.

Brett Sterling, Steve Wagner and Tim Wallace wore the “A” tonight.

John Curry got the nod in net and absolutely saved (no pun intended) the win for us. Zac Rinaldo scored :42 seconds into the game and Curry went into shutdown mode after that. Not that Adirondack really tested John much tonight, they only managed 26 shots on goal.

It will be interesting what Bombulie has to say about this game. I was fully expecting a 7-1 thrashing. Adirondack is not a good team. They really aren’t. They have Greg Moore, Dan Jancevski, and Jon Kalinski, who I did not even notice tonight and that is it. Binghamton destroyed them 5-1 on their opening night.

Joe Vitale scored a goal and Tim Wallace potted a power play goal. These two always leave it all on the ice. I never have to worry about these guys giving it their all night in and night out.

Carl Sneep played like a rookie tonight. I know I said that he could easily anchor the D corps, but perhaps that was a bit premature.

Drew Fata and Nick Petersen played tonight for the first time. Fata didn’t do anything memorable. Petersen played okay for his first game.

Dustin Jeffrey and Nick Johnson had a very pedestrian game in my opinion. They could have both easily dominated the Phantoms, but Dustin was a -1 with 2 SOG and Juice had an assist and had 3 SOG.If either wonder why they are riding buses to Binghamton instead of charters to Chicago, they need not look further than this game.

Brett Sterling was a disappointment tonight. Again, we are playing a team (at least on paper) we should steamroll. Sterling was a -1 with 2 SOG. Sterling should have had 2 goals and 5 assists. Okay, maybe not that many but you get my drift.

The powerplay was an absolute aberration tonight. We could not set anything up. And when we did, it was Pass. Pass. Pass. Another pass. Missed pass. Whoops, gotta tag up. Turnover, dump and chase.

It really is frustrating for me because yes, it is two points. Yeah it puts in first place and all. Sure it is a win. But, I am not happy with this. If we played like this against Hershey, we lose 6-2.

Bombulie should have more, intelligent analysis on his blog later. Check him out.