A relatively quiet week in what figures to be a busy month, the highlight was a Wednesday night game at the Arena. The four-game homestand ended with the Adirondack Thunder in town for the last of their five regular-season visits. On this night we saw another low-scoring tight-checking kind of game we've seen so often, there was no score into the second period. The Royals finally broke through six minutes in on a breakaway score by Matt Brown, at roughly the same time in the third period Brown struck again to make it 2-0. The Thunder broke the shutout with three minutes left but could come no closer, Cam Cook's empty-netter with thirteen seconds left on the clock put away a 3-1 win for goalie Vinnie Purpura. The record improves to 24-22-9, 11-8-7 at the Arena. The club returns home for a two-game set with Trois-Rivieres on Friday the 14th. Saturday night was the semi-annual clock change, sunset on Sunday came after 7:00 and it will be that way until September 23. Take care, thanks for reading.
