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| Sound Tigers 'sick' of Admirals - 3/13 |
| NORFOLK, Va. — Shawn Thornton had been looking for trouble since Friday. He found it Saturday, but from referee Harry Dumas more than anyone. Thornton, a Norfolk Admirals veteran and a standout forward, cost himself 14 minutes in the penalty box early in the first period of the Bridgeport Sound Tigers' 5-2 win Saturday night,
which kept them in the third-place race. It was all a spillover from Friday's Norfolk victory, in which Thornton was pulled down by Allan Rourke on a partial breakaway late in the game, sliding into the end boards. "You play a team 10 times, you're going to have (stuff) like that," coach Dave Baseggio said. "They're sick of seeing us. We're sick of seeing them." Thornton seemed most sick of it all. Somehow, he got mixed up at the end Friday with Chris Thompson. "He was just mad at Rourke at the end, and he was staring down the bench," Thompson said. "I couldn't even understand what he was saying, and he probably couldn't understand what I was saying." In warmup, Thornton and Thompson found themselves next to each other at the red line and had an undemonstrative but not-so-friendly chat. On the first shift for both players, Thornton shoved Thompson a couple of times but got no response. Thompson didn't feel he had a reason to fight Thornton. At the end of
the shift, that feeling paid off. Thornton slashed Thompson in front of the Bridgeport bench, was plucked out of the ensuing scrum by the officials, then earned a misconduct by rushing back toward Thompson after he got near the penalty box. Bridgeport received a five-on-three power play after Dumas added a slashing penalty to Martin St. Pierre. Jeff Hamilton scored 88 seconds later. "Us getting on the board first gave us some momentum," Thompson said. "I thought we played a really good game." It's tough to say Thornton's penalty swung momentum in Bridgeport's favor, because Nathan Barrett scored not long after, on a five-on-three of the Admirals' own. But Bridgeport scored twice more before the period was over and two more before the Admirals scored again. "(Barrett's goal) took a little wind out of us. Not much, though," Baseggio said. "We felt pretty good about what we needed to do. We came out and did it." The Sound
Tigers bused home after the game. They will return to practice today, the day on which they must report their 22-man Clear Day roster to the league. That list determines who is eligible to play the rest of the season and the playoffs. |
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