The Islanders recalled Josh Bailey this morning. Assuming nothing crazy happens over the next nine hours, the moment he steps onto the ice for his first shift, he would have to pass through waivers before the Islanders could assign him to Bridgeport.
The Sound Tigers were 8-11 the day he showed up. They went 6-2-1-2 with him in the lineup*. He scored six goals and 11 assists in those 11 games. If that’s enough of a sample size to excite you, that makes him Bridgeport’s all-time leader in points per game at 1.55. He leaves, perhaps, a perpetually active eight-game scoring streak.
From Bridgeport’s perspective, it’s impossible to replace a talent like that, but they’ll have to do so in all situations. There were times when he, when that line, seemed quiet, and then they’d fall into a goal. That doesn’t happen often. You’ve got to look at it as a bonus for the month he was here, special while it lasted.
| Name | GP | G | A | Pts | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bailey | 11 | 6 | 11 | 17 | 1.55 |
| Omicioli | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1.5 |
| Sillinger | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1.33 |
| Sim | 26 | 20 | 12 | 32 | 1.23 |
| Tambellini | 113 | 71 | 67 | 138 | 1.22 |
| Boguniecki | 48 | 22 | 32 | 54 | 1.13 |
*-Take out the shootout loss at Hartford if you want to throw out the game where he missed two periods with the pectoral strain; he also missed the Norfolk win the next day, which made Eric Castonguay one of four players to score 1.0 points per game for Bridgeport. That Hartford game, the Connecticut Whale debut, is the only game in which Bailey didn’t score a point here.