Hello, Cannon community! (Cannoneers? Cannonites? What do you people call yourselves?)
I wanted to take a brief moment to introduce myself as the newest addition to the site, brought on to cover the AHL's Lake Erie Monsters. I'm a lifelong Clevelander who started his career as a sports writer at The News-Herald in Willoughby and the Plain Dealer in Cleveland. I spent a number of years covering the old IHL Cleveland Lumberjacks and, as part of one of those sportswriter-gets-on-the-ice-and-plays-with-the-pros features, was once checked so hard into the glass by Al Tuer that I proudly sported a yellow and purple bruise on my arm for two weeks.