Mark Wotton keeps the ‘C’ for the third year in a row, obviously. Tim Jackman gets an ‘A’ for the second year in a row. Jeremy Colliton will serve as the second alternate at home; it’ll be Joe Callahan on the road.
Pascal Morency: Still hanging about. He said he has to sign a contract — he was hoping that could be done by this afternoon — and then the immigration-paperwork carnival can begin. He initially thought he might have to go back to Canada to clear it up, but that might not be the case.
Trevor Smith was back on the ice and should be fine to go. Chris Lee, Ben Walter and Micheal Haley are out for the weekend.
Forward lines for the day:
Nikiforov-Colliton-Joensuu
Bentivoglio-Hennigar-Jackman
Smith-McLean-Iggulden
Pitton-Haskins-Fritz
Marcinko/Rechlicz
Off to do the first actual advance of the season…