Fake-good news: They’ve improved by three goals since Oct. 20.
Fake-bad news: That’s still a two-goal loss.
None of that fake-good news stuff downstairs, obviously. The best to be offered was Steve Regier’s at-least-we-play-tomorrow. It had better be better than tonight, or else they’d better hope the Pack tired themselves out.
BRIDGEPORT
F: Tambellini (A)-Nielsen-Okposo
Smith-Walter-Regier
Pitton-Colliton-Keith
Brennan/Haley
D: Fata-Spiller (A)
Dwyer-Wotton (C)
Sertich-Fraser
WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON
F: Letetsu-James-Wallace
Gove-McLean-Daoust
Stone (A)-Brent (A)-Minard
Havern-Rank-(Lovejoy-scratch)
D: Bissonnette-Lannon (A)
Goligoski-Engelland
Ardelan-D’Aversa
If you had 21 out of 38 players to play both Oct. 20 and Feb. 1, you win! (Ten skaters apiece, and Morrison was the only goalie of the four to even dress for both.)
Interesting in the third: Spiller and one of the Penguins came together right at the stanchion between the benches on a whistle. Regier skated through and got his two cents in as the Penguin (didn’t catch who) got up. And then it looked like someone reached in from the Penguins’ bench… and then it looked like Kip Brennan told someone off with a swat and a few words. Only penalty from Francois St. Laurent was a bench minor served by the Penguins’ Chris Minard, who was at that end of the bench.
First St. Laurent game since Nov. 2 for Bridgeport.
Mark Wotton looked to get stronger as the game went on. “Having your captain back is a huge lift for us,” Capuano said. “He’s like another coach for us.”
WBS’s warmup jerseys are absolutely impossible to read. At least, from up here they are. I got worried. Their game whites are substantially better.
And finally… Wow.