Captain Colliton

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The seventh captain of the Bridgeport Sound Tigers is Jeremy Colliton. Another choice would have been quite a surprise.

“It’s a very big honor,” Colliton said, noting as well that it’s an honor to follow Mark Wotton, captain for five seasons, into that letter. “I’ve been here a while, so I’ve got a lot of pride in the organization, in the team here.

“I’m proud to wear it.”

The A’s go to four players. On the road, it’ll be Trevor Frischmon (wearing 28) and Tim Wallace. Here, it’ll be Dylan Reese and Justin DiBenedetto, the lone non-AHL veteran. “To me, you’ve got to breed some young leaders,” Brent Thompson said, crediting DiBenedetto’s character and work ethic. Thompson said he also considers Micheal Haley and Ty Wishart to be part of the team’s leadership, and that he sees enough character in the young players that they can be leaders as well. More in the paper.

It’ll be another week before Colliton actually wears the letter: He confirmed he’s out for the weekend. He said he’s feeling good, but there’s no sense pushing it at the start, especially with another week before Game 3.

So, with Frischmon and Reese in town, they ran roughly like this today (or at least they did in the drill where I took down the D pairs, what with the odd number back there):

Haley-Frischmon-Marcinko
McNeely-Cizikas-Backman
DiBenedetto-Ullstrom-Wallace
Gallant-Langkow-Romano

Donovan-Wishart
De Haan-Reese
Olson-Ness
Klementyev

And the three goalies.

From Today’s Paper: Kevin Poulin comes back, feeling strong.

Syracuse released Brett Motherwell, Lindsay Kramer reports.

Ben Guite feature from Bill Ballou in the Telegram.

And RIP, Steve Jobs, Fred Shuttlesworth and Charles Napier, who’ll always be Duke Phillips*.

*-Hat tip: Jaime Weinman via Alan Sepinwall.

Michael Fornabaio