An interesting day in hockey. The long overdue news about Barry “Captain Mullet” Melrose being made the new head coach of the Lightning became official. I guess he finally read the writing on the wall about ESPN’s disinterest in the NHL. His first step to get some attention was hiring Rick Tocchet as an assistant coach.
The other story was about the Austin Ice Bats in the New York Times, of all publications. It’s a sad story but any publicity is better than none. Hopefully I will run into some of the players who stayed behind at the Alamo’s rolling road show August 16.