Today's Games

The Texas Brahmas just earned a 5-4 win over the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees to take a 2-0 series lead in the Southern Conference Semifinal series that determines who will face the winner of the Bucks' series against the Odessa Jackalopes.

As you all probably know, the Bucks beat the Jackalopes 5-1 last night to take a 2-0 lead in that series.

You can check out Bryan Benway's recap and the story from the Odessa American for more on that game.

Interesting/amusing quote from the latter article:

"We played like crap in the first period," Jackalopes coach Paul Gillis said. "We didn't come out with the energy that we needed; we played with the energy in the second and third period, but in the first period we didn't have the energy."

And what Coach Ruskowski had to say:

"Special teams, our power play and penalty-killing has to come up huge for the rest of the series," Laredo coach Terry Ruskowski said. "There are no two ways about it. We got lucky on a couple of them and we caught them when the were pressing us pretty hard. Darryl, when we looked at him at this time last year, it was about whether he could step up and he has and he's really come on strong the past two games."

I'm a bit perplexed by that bit about Darryl Smith...because he wasn't here this time last year. But I wil lassume that was a reference to recruiting...though that was the last thing on Ruskowski's mind on March 29, 2008. Yes, I know that is a year ago from today, not yesterday.

Meanwhile, the team should be back in town by now and will hopefully be practicing tomorrow, so I'll be getting some thoughts on the weekend and what is to come if that is the case.

Today's other game, the first of the Northern Conference Semifinal series between the Colorado Eagles and Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs, is scheduled to begin at 8:05 p.m. our time. I'll post the score for that when it goes final.

UPDATE: The Eagles won 4-3 to take a 1-0 series lead.

NHL Scores: Blues 5, Blue Jackets 2; Predators 4, Red Wings 3; Senators 3, Lightning 0; Canucks 4, Blackhawks 0; Bruins 4, Flyers 3; Ducks 4, Avalanche 1; Wild 3, Oilers 2.