The Toronto Rock played their first home game of the season on Friday night, a 19-15 loss to Rochester. It was a pretty entertaining game, though the Rock took a lot of undisciplined penalties (and the officiating was pretty inconsistent all night). Rochester scored an unbelievable ten power play goals — the Rock offense wasn't bad (hey, they scored 15), but they just couldn't stay out of the box, so it seemed like they were a man down for two thirds of the game. You just can't win doing that. Hopefully new coach Clark can settle them down a bit for next week's game in Philadelphia, and if Jim Veltman is healthy enough to play, that will certainly help.
The loss of Colin Doyle wasn't a huge factor in this game. All three guys they got for him played — Benesch scored four goals and looked pretty good. Thompson wasn't much of a factor, and Fines scored a goal, though I didn't think he played very well. Despite getting pounded for 19 goals, Watson played pretty well — as my buddy Steve said, he was the reason the Rock didn't lose by 10 or more. Funniest moment of the game: the Knighthawks gain possession of the ball, and their coach immediately signals the ref for a time-out. The ref blows the whistle and a second or two later, the Knighthawk players, who don't know about the time-out request, score. The goal is waved off.
Finally winter's here! Normally, I'd complain about that, but I'm going skiing this Friday, and I was worried that there wouldn't be enough snow to actually go. But it's been cold enough to make snow for a week now, and Collingwood's gotten some real snow as well, so the conditions should be pretty good. The forecast calls for a high on Friday of -13 — my ideal temperature for skiing is about -6, so it'll be cold, but for my one ski day per year, I can handle it.
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