No fauna on inbound trip

Back here in our usual home away from home up here in Siberia the parking lot Mountain Top, Pa. Box 318 of Wachovia-or-any-successor-banking-corporation Arena at Casey Plaza. They’ve got a new system here that shows a video on the ice surface. It’s not the ideal way to watch a video, because you’re playing it over all the markings and the ads. But who cares? They’re showing a video on the ice surface in pretty good quality. Slick.

Remember we said the orange sweaters weren’t going away? Yeah.

LINEUPS
Orangey BRIDGEPORT
F: Smith-McLean-Iggulden
Bentivoglio-Colliton-Jackman (A)
Comeau-Hennigar-Joensuu
Pitton-Haskins-Marcinko
D: Skinner-Callahan (A)
Kohn-MacDonald
Fraser-Wotton (C)
G: Danis
(Mannino)

WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON
F: Pesonen-Taffe-Minard (A)
Stone-Gove-James
Caputi-Henrich-Filewich (A)
Daoust-Jeffrey-Wallace
(Boogaard-scratch)
D: Kemp-Engelland
Richmond-D’Aversa
Cote (A)-Lovejoy
G: Berkhoel
(Curry)

R: Ciamaga. L: Chaudry, Fyrer.

Boogaard scratched. Threw me off.

Meanwhile — got to sneak this in pregame — I’m not sure if this is the coolest ex-BST thing ever… or simply the most frightening. (“Horribelt” means what I think it does, right?) (Hat tip: Puck Daddy)

Michael Fornabaio