So there's a big hockey game today. Two actually.

The Americans lost Owsley midway through the third period when he strayed from the net to play the puck, collided with Spokane's Blake Gal and went down. His status is unknown.  (Herald)

Great.

So the boys are criss-crossing the state once again to face off against the Seattle Thunderbirds tonight.  As usual, T-Birds will play hard, make you earn the win.  They are solid in net with Calvin Pickard, though the Salmon kid has been good in net against the Americans this year too.  Looks like FRWG will be in net for the AMS, hope he plays like he did in Everett Friday night.

Last night was a bad combination of Spokane's hard work and luck and the Americans' extremely porous penalty kill.  AMS have got to stay out of the penalty box. 

Hard to focus on writing a post for today when there's a HUGE GAME approaching in a couple of hours!!  For those of us on the west coast, that means it will be tape delayed.  That's right, biggest hockey game in the history of ever (not really) not being shown live in the time zone in which it is being played.  Way to be awesome NBC.  You've really outdone yourself on these games.  However, if you know your online account login and pw for your cable/satellite provider (the login you would use to pay online or whatnot), you can watch it streaming online here.    

NEVER MIND, IT'S LIVE (about time NBC)

Naturally, we'll be liveblogging the AMS game tonight, remember it's Sunday so early start time, see y'all there (if you survived the gold medal game).