Over these next two nights, the Oshawa Generals' Ken Appleby is looking quite forward to being public enemy No. 1 in his native North Bay.
Playoff goaltending, to borrow a phrase from the dearly departed Mark Reeds, is performance on demand. The undrafted 19-year-old goalie would be hard-pressed to conceive of a better challenge than this, backing the Generals against the North Bay Battalion in the Eastern Conference final during back-to-back games in one of the OHL's most frenzied atmospheres. It's something that Appleby couldn't have envisioned fewer than three years ago, when he was trying to break into the OHL while the Battalion were still in Brampton.