Saturday night save.

We went to the Wisconsin-North Dakota hockey game Saturday night. The Sioux won 3-1, and it was a sloppy game overall. Still early in the season, and the Badgers had won 4-o the night before. Tired legs, lots of penalties, not much in terms of passing or either team much setting something up. We sat up high, and I was hoping to see more of that -- the game unfolding with the entire sheet before you. That will come.

The play of the game -- he got almost a minute or two of ovation -- was goalie Connelly's second-period save, sweeping the puck from the goal line with no inches to spare. From behind his back, and putting his whole body into it, including an acrobatic landing. Amazing.

Mal was a goalie: says that play in the net was the best he's seen. If you can find a replay, treat your eyes to a thing of beauty.