Dogs fall 6-3 to Caps, host Grizzlies tonight, dustin' off the headset, Salmon Fest !

Hello, Happy Friday, and thanks for checking the blog.


The Bulldogs lost their second consecutive preseason game last night, 6-3 to the Capitals in Duncan. Foster Martin gave the Dogs a 1-0 lead, before Jackson Doucet found the net later in the first for a 2-1 Dogs lead after one. They held the lead until the back half of the second, when the Caps equalized, and then took their first lead of the game with 30 seconds and change to play in the period for a 3-2 lead after two. The Caps added two more for a 5-2 lead, before Doucet's second of the game made it 5-3, while the Dogs were on the power play. The Caps responded for a 6-3 final score.

Bruce Macdonald and I will be dusting off the headsets tonight - and there's even a chance that statistician Dan "the stats man" Tisserand will make the game!

To watch the game, head over to HockeyTV.com

This is NO WHERE near the product that you can come to expect throughout the season when we are broadcasting on 93.3 The Peak FM and Hockey TV takes our audio broadcast to sync up with their video pay-per-view.

We won't have any produced elements or much of a pregame show, intermission coverage, interviews, or a post game show or anything along those lines.

This is strictly a volunteer effort to:

a) make sure all our equipment works
b) to make sure I still remember how to do play-by-play (HA) and Bruce still knows how to do colour and analysis

and

c) to give you an opportunity to be able to follow the game.

On one hand, I'm very much looking forward to it, as it will be nice to get back in the booth and knock some rust off. On the other hand, I'm feeling a tad overwhelmed as I'll be doing quadruple duty today - 6am Morning show, 11am broadcasting live from THE BRICK (come see me for some great deals!) sometime late afternoon down to Tyee Landing to set up our broadcast location for Salmon Fest, then hopefully some supper before getting back to the rink for the game tonight. 

Mix in about 15 hours for me tomorrow, Sunday and Monday broadcasting live from Salmon Fest for 93.3 The Peak, and you can see how it starts to become a bit much. Better than being bored though, right!?

Hopefully we'll see you at the rink, or talk to you through the broadcast from the rink if you can't make it, and if not, maybe I'll see you at some point at Salmon Fest over the weekend. 

Hammer