View from the Pressbox - Aeros win Game 4 with McMillan OT winner

Now that is more like it. Not more of what I like to see, because, hey, I am supposed to be neutral. But more of this "our game" that we keep hearing about. More of this "our game" we saw against Peoria, and more of this "our game" that the Aeros played in Game 2.

I don't have a lot of time to write - John should have more meat and potatoes for you later - but I just wanted to give a few players credit for what I thought was a very good game.

The top line, now Rau, O'Sullivan and DiSalvatore created I don't know how many scoring chances. They looked good; keep that just like that.

The fourth line that scored the game-winner. After the game, McMillan said he did not know how many chances he was going to get with Bulmer and Palmer. But boy did they make their time count. Smith lost the puck for just a split second, Palmer slid a pass right under him and McMillan roofed his second game-winner of the playoffs.

Jeremy Smith. Wow, that guy is playing special right now ... Here is his quote on the OT winner from McMillan:

“The guy (Palmer) carried the puck around the net and threw it out front,” said Smith, who finished with 30 saves. “I don’t know what happened. It might have hit somebody. He threw it over to the guy (McMillan). I stretched, and it went in. It was a bang-bang play. Nothing really we could do.”

And history ... yeah, have to give history some credit right now. The Aeros have been to 10 overtime games since Game 2 of the 2003 Calder Cup finals ... and they have won all 10 of them. The last one they lost? Oh, that was a little 75-minute gasser that saw the Aeros lose 2-1 on a goal by some guy named Michael Ryder.

That 10 straight OT wins is an unofficial AHL record. I e-mailed the league and they could not find a longer streak of OT wins in the postseason.