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player ready...“Se metiooooo!” Translation: He shoots and scores. Or even more accurately, the excitable phrase means “It’s in.”
That’s what Spanish fans of the Florida Panthers hear if they listen to team play-by-play announcer Arley Londono, who is more familiar describing soccer, boxing or cycling. He will be at the mike Thursday night when the Blackhawks visit Miami.
“This is my first time doing hockey,” Londono said, “but if you are a play-by-play man covering fast sports like soccer, you have the ability to adapt.
“Hockey is much faster and, unlike soccer, they are always changing the lines. Miami is 50 percent Spanish, and we are trying to interest the second generation Latin Americans.”
A playmaking scorer: You may have been confused by Patrick Poulin. While the 20-year-old is billed as a scoring left wing, he is playing more like a playmaking center since the Hawks got him from Hartford.
“The Hartford coaches told us, and the scouting reports on him out of juniors said it, too, he likes to be a playmaker,” said coach Darryl Sutter of a player with no points in five games as a Hawk, largely because he has taken five shots in all.
“But he’s played all right for us. He just has to recognize scoring opportunities. He has a good shot.”