Hello all. Happy Valentine’s Day/Marian Gaborik’s 27th. 

Wild radio analyst Tom Reid will miss his first broadcast since 1978 tonight when the Wild hosts the Ottawa Senators. As I mentioned in Detroit, Reid has had three knee surgeries in the past couple weeks.

It was determined that he needs another. Reid will have a fourth operation this afternoon and the Wild is hoping Reid will be able to return to the booth for Thursday’s game against Calgary.

Wild radio personality Kevin Falness will fill in for Reid tonight and do color alongside play-by-play man Bob Kurtz.

We wish Reid our best wishes toward a speedy recovery.

In other news, the Houston Aeros had a big comeback victory last night against Iowa when the Aeros scored thrice in the third to beat the Chops, 4-2. Benoit Pouliot finally lit the lamp with one and one, and Brandon Rogers, Marco Rosa and Nick Schultz’s cuz Jesse scored in the third.

Kurtis Foster played his second game. He had three shots and minus-1.

Foster said he “felt much better last night. Lot more confident with the puck” followed by three exclamation points.

He’s going to take warmups tonight and see how it feels to decide if he’ll play back-to-back. Houston also plays at home tomorrow against the Chicago Wolves, so if Foster doesn’t play tonight, he’d certainly play tomorrow.

Three in three would seem like too much, but we’ll see.

As for the Wild, nada is going on. I’m not certain of tonight’s scratch.

Senators goalie Brian Elliott took a hard shot and sustained a stinger this morning. But he’ll be good to go for the game.

I attended the Gophers-Alaska Anchorage game last night. Just a bad hockey game. I was sitting with Senators GM Bryan Murray and assistant GM Tim Murray in the third, and Tim Murray said (and he said I can print this), “If anybody ever says again that the NHL should go to bigger rinks, come watch a bad college game.”

Also hung with Darby Hendrickson for awhile last night. Nicest guy. Too bad I didn’t get to cover him.

He reminds me of Bill Lindsay, the former Panther, Nordique, Thrasher, Flame, Shark and Thrasher (oh, and Canadien). I did a radio show in Miami this morning, and Lindsay, who scored the most famous goal in Cats history (used and abused Ray Bourque to score a huge playoff goal against the Bruins the year the Panthers went to the Finals), and fellow former NHLer Randy Moller were the hosts.

I thought it was funny getting peppered with questions from Lindsay when I used to do the same to him. 

I’ve got nothing else for you. I’m back living in a hotel, so it’s time to take advantage of the fitness center.

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