Mathemagic

If Bridgeport wins tonight, its magic number will be no higher than five for the division; it will also clinch a finish no worse than sixth. If Bridgeport loses tonight, well, hold off on all that.

Tomas Marcinko appears to be in; Tyler McNeely did take the warmup. Syracuse has one to scratch as well, and all indications were John Kurtz. Edit: McNeely and Kurtz.

BRIDGEPORT
F: Persson-Romano-Rakhshani
Halmo-Frischmon (A)-Backman
Ullstrom-Mouillierat-DiBenedetto (A)
Howes-Marcinko-Riley
(McNeely-scratch)
D: de Haan-Wishart (A)
Ness-Landry
Katic-Oleksy
G: Poulin
Clarke

SYRACUSE
F: Maroon-Holland-Palmieri
J.Mitchell-Holzapfel-Sexton
Caputi-McMillan-Jacques (A)
Brittain-Schofield-Bodie (A)
(Kurtz-scratch)
D: Cumiskey (A)-Schaus
Guentzel-Clark
McGinnis-Carle
G: Tarkki
Bobkov

R: Skilliter, Lemelin. L: Demers, Wahl.

Meanwhile, if you haven’t seen it or read about it, John Tortorella got fined $20,000 for this last night.

And Chris Minard received the AHL’s Fred T. Hunt Award for sportsmanship, determination and dedication to hockey.

Michael Fornabaio