LEWISTON – Gone are the faded red and green seats. Gone are the chipped red handrails, and gone is the old name, replaced by Colisee just last week.
The ghosts, it appears, also have left the building.
First, it was a floater that never sank from the top of the circle. Then it was a deflection off of the glove of a St. Dom’s defenseman. Then it was a Saints’ defender getting his stick caught along the boards near the Zamboni entrance. Then it was another odd bounce off a skate.
It added up to four goals, four fluke instances and four points that one normally would expect to go the Saints’ way on home ice.
“I’m telling you,” St. Dom’s assistant coach Mike Pleau said. “Bad things start to happen when you change the name to ‘Colisee.’ “
“Really, we had four bad-luck goals against tonight,” head coach Bob Boucher said. “This was the worst luck we’ve had all season.”
It could have been the ice. Players always seem to blame sticks or a tape job or officials. Coaches have ideas about karma. But in the end, it just may be the change of a the name, from ‘Central Maine Civic Center’ to ‘Colisee,’ that sent the ghosts packing.
“We want it to be known as the St. Dom’s Colisee,” quipped Boucher. “Maybe that will help.”
jpelletier@sunjournal.com
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