If you want to draw up a template for a Bridgeport goal, it might look a little like Blake Comeau’s: Get the puck deep, forecheck, work for it, bang bodies, go to the net, get the puck there, and either screen the goalie or (this case) whack home the rebound.
How many times did this happen tonight?
Well, the scoring part, precisely once, although the power-play goal worked pretty much like it. The rest of it? Not much more often.
They were concerned about not competing hard enough against a team that was going to be ticked off after Bridgeport beat them three times (4-2, 4-1, 4-0 — you knew it wasn’t going to be 4-(minus-1)). Hershey kept coming, and Bridgeport stood still. Shots were 12-7 for Bridgeport when Regier scored. They finished 34-21 for Hershey. The swing was indicative.
It’s one game in a week, but next week gets tougher, with a return trip here, Thanksgiving off, then Hartford, Albany and Albany.
BRIDGEPORT
F: Tambellini (A)-Nielsen-Bentivoglio
Bates-Walter-Regier
Comeau-Colliton-Bootland
Kinasewich-(A.MacDonald-scratch)-Brennan
D: Fata-Spiller (A)
Kohn-Rullier
Fraser-Wotton (C)
HERSHEY
F: Bourque-Wilson-Barney
Klepis-Morgan-Motzko
Laing (C)-Beagle-Clymer (A)
Robitaille-(Joudrey-scratch)-Maxwell
D: Boumedienne-Pollock
Sloan (A)-Lepisto
Pokulok-Hunt
Good wishes to equipment manager Eddie Summers, who’s in the hospital.
Bates felt a lot better, he said, as the game went on, “as I got the lungs going, got the legs going.” He played pretty much a regular shift as well as some center on the fourth line. About a minute and a half into the game, he came with Regier on a two-on-one short-handed; he fed Regier on the right, Regier slid it back to him, and he fanned. “I thought Reg was going to open up a one-timer, and he ended up giving it back to me,” he said. “I wasn’t expecting it.”
Brennan received a double game misconduct in that mess late in the game: one for being the third man in on Robitaille and Fata, and another for a secondary altercation with Maxwell. The second one, as well as Maxwell’s, weren’t announced right away but were certainly the logical call. Kimber’s game notes mention that Brennan’s 45 minutes ties Eric Godard’s team record from the infamous Springfield game, Feb. 1, 2002.
Funny stuff in warmup, as Bates gave Chris Bourque a little swat on the rear end as Bourque stretched at the red line — Boston memories there.
Scary moment Friday in Providence, where goalie Jordan Sigalet collapsed on the ice during a game.