We’ll get word on one part tomorrow, probably on another part Tuesday, and then maybe the last part Wednesday.
We’ll get a handle on the Islanders’ injury situation by then. We’ll see who they send down. We’ll see how that affects what the Sound Tigers do, which of those kids won jobs.
Capuano praised the youngsters’ work all week, working within the system. Now we’ll get to see what it looks like with the regular complement (or as close as injuries will allow).
“There’s a couple of things, obviously, we’re going to change. We just want everybody to be able to play what Scott has. Special teams, especially, there’s a couple of things we’re going to change. You can’t get it all in five or six days.”
Those who didn’t play today are supposed to skate tomorrow, and then there are three days of practice to get everything under control.
And then it begins.
BOX SCORE
Bridgeport 0 0 0–0
Hartford 0 1 2–3
First Period — No scoring. Penalties — Graham, Hfd (hooking), 5:17; Kohn, Bpt (hooking), 6:16; Murray, Hfd (interference), 10:37; Soryal, Hfd (goaltender interference), 14:16; Bentivoglio, Bpt (slashing), 17:35.
Second Period — 1, Hartford, Moore 1 (Sanguinetti, Jessiman), 5:39 (pp). Penalties — Fuller, Bpt (hooking), 3:59; Lesperance, Bpt (cross-checking), 10:21; Fraser, Bpt, double minor (elbowing, roughing), 12:40; Soryal, Hfd (roughing), 12:40; Takahashi, Bpt (slashing), 14:13; Sanguinetti, Hfd (holding), 15:13; Moore, Hfd (interference), 17:53.
Third Period — 2, Hartford, Pyatt 2 (Weise, Denisov), 1:36. 3, Hartford, Weise 2 (Dupont, Murray), 9:31. Penalties — Kohn, Bpt (interference), 11:13.
Shots on goal — Bridgeport 8-6-7–21. Hartford 11-12-16–39.
Power play opportunities — Bridgeport 0 of 5, Hartford 1 of 7.
Goaltenders — Bridgeport, Mannino 1-1-0 (23 shots-22 saves), Lawson (start third, 16-14). Hartford, Zaba (21-21).
No attendance. Not sure about the officials. (Cozzan might’ve been the ref, based on last year’s numbers.)
LINEUPS
BRIDGEPORT
F: Sean Bentivoglio-James Sixsmith-Jean Bourbeau
Mike Walsh-Rob Hennigar-Tom May
Jarrett Konkle-Travis Fuller-Mike Lesperance
Jason Pitton (C)-Kazuma Takahashi-Joel Rechlicz
D: Andy Sertich (A)-Jon Gleed
Dustin Kohn (A)-Jordan Hart (A)
Jamie Fraser-Russ Moyer
G: Peter Mannino
Nathan Lawson
(yep, three A’s.)
HARTFORD
F: Justin Soryal-Artem Anisimov-P.A. Parenteau (A)
Dane Byers (A)-Greg Moore (A)-Hugh Jessiman
Brodie Dupont-Tommy Pyatt-Dale Weise
Jordan Owens-Mike Ouellette-Andreas Jamtin
(Will Bodine-scratch)
D: Maxim Kondratiev-Bobby Sanguinetti
Tysen Dowzak-Chris Murray
Vladimir Denisov-Ethan Graham
G: Matt Zaba
(Martin Houle)
Greg Logan has Josh Bailey making the Florida trip, and Brandon Sugden getting released.
Meanwhile, there’s Vancouver, which goes with boilerplate, down to “The following players have been assigned to the Manitoba Moose,” to announce the reassignment of Nolan Baumgartner alone. Very “We regret to announce the following layoffs” (8F09), isn’t it?
The Devils assigned, like, everybody to Lowell. For our purposes, Matthew Spiller and Jay Leach are most interesting.
And finally, made my Tim Hortons season debut on the way up. Then I think the dude gave me, like, a double-triple on the way back. Ahhhh.