UTica Comets at Rochester Americans
Final Score:
Utica Comets 4 - Rochester Americans 0
SOG:
UTICA 13 6 9 = 28
ROCH 10 12 10 = 32
PP
UTICA - 1/1
ROCH - 0/3
Scoring
Schmelzer (9) from Vilen (9) and Middendorf (1)
Gambardella (6) from Clarke (14) and Halonen (2) PP
Durandeau (3) from Clarke (15) and Vilen (10)
Vukojevic (3) Unassisted (ENG)
Poulter 31/31
3 *s
1 Isaac Poulter (Utica Comets) SA-31/SV-31
2 Ryan Schmelzer (Utica Comets) 1G (GWG)
3Graeme Clarke (Utica Comets) 2A
Vilen also had 2 assists.
Gambardells's goal was a deflecton of Clarke's shot from the left circle off his face. Looked like it was off his mouth. That's the area he was covering on his way to the bench with the blood coming out around his hands. Don'y have any idea if it cost him any chicklets. He is and always has been a warrior in his time here and he showed it by coming back out for the 3rd wearing a full cage.
It was gutsy effort for a depleted sqaud and can't say enough for their effort, but they owe Isaac a debt of gratitude. That could just as easily have been a 6-3 Rochester win.
No time to celebrate. The Comets are back home for their 3rd game in 4 nights to face the Syracuse Crunch. The Crunch hold a 5-4 lead in their games this season with the latest a 5-2 Syracuse win on Wednesday.
It's Ryan Schmelzer Bobblehead night.
Really amazing you have the patience to do these write ups for us. Thanks as always.
As a kid I always wanted to be a play by play announcer for baseball and hockey. I was the voice of the neighborhood in all f our games using the names of the Rochester Red Wings and the Rochester Americans and anyone they were playing that night, the day before, or whenever I wanted them to be in town. I knew every name and position of every player on every team and lots of background stories to tell that were real and many I made up to kill down time.
My best friend's mom asked me on several ,occasions "Don't you ever shut up?". My response was not as long as the game is going on. Mr. Phillips and a couple other neighbors told me when I was older and playing high school and semi pro-baseball in the summers getting no pay while I watched the other guys get paychecks on Sundays, that they missed the ballgames every evening. They actually sat on their porches and listened to my play by play as if the game was for real.
When I was in College I took a tape recorder into the housekeeping slop room. I turned the water in the slop sink on low and created my own crowd sounds with crackling paper and lots of whispy breathing directly into the mike and did a made up hockey game between the Amerks and the Buffalo Bisons. It was 3 periods and I was in there for over 3 hours. Pregame show and interviews. Between period time killers. Even did my own ads. Post game review and interviews with the top Amekrs of the night who won 5-2.
I brought it back to my room where I lived with 3 other hockey teammates. One of them pushed play when I wasn't in the room. The next evening the game was turned on in the center space in our hallway where the pay phones and fold out ironing boards in the walls were located. Eventually many of the dorm rats were sitting out there with sodas, popcorn, candy and cookies from their stashes and the vending machines listening to the game. When it was over they wondered when the game was played and how did I get permission to do a play by play and exactly where did I set up. When I told them I made the whole thing up and it was a game that never was they were awe struck and then dumbfounded that I would actually do something that stupid. others said i should submit it to any hockey team in the country and see f i could land some kind of a job.
I never did and to this day wonder why I didn't try to make a go of it and study broadcasting. I would have had to go elsewhere, get another degree, and run all over the country taking gigs in whatever podunk town would take me on and then submit tapes from games in those places to major teams to try and hit one that was impressed enough to give me a shot in their minor system with a chance of moving up. I wasn't up to the challenge. My wife says your voice was made for it. I then tell her if I had done it, she would be married to someone else and I would have missed out on spending my life with the girl of my dreams.
So, anyone checking in on the Comets for game day when they are on the road will have to read through my stuff to get what they were looking for or just go on AHL.com and check out the score and stats. I do this because it makes watching these guys easier to do. I don't go crazy cussing and getting frustrated out of my mind at the dumb s**t they do.
When our team happens to be good or plays a good game (like tonight) it gives me a way to root them on without driving my wife nuts yelling and hollering all game long. It's not easy to follow the game and type as it progresses when you are a 2 finger typer like me. I don't have time to get terribly upset or over excited when they do something good because the game just keeps going on and I have to rush to keep up.
Anyways, I'm glad somebody appreciates the effort. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!
