Tony Romano and Jon Landry return to the lineup, with Kael Mouillierat and Mark Katic removed. It’s naturally Kevin Poulin in goal.
The Whale have 2011 first-rounder J.T. Miller on for warmup, and from the rushes, looks like he’s in and Steve Moses is out. Edit: Appearances hold up. Otherwise, the same for the Whale. Bridgeport tweaks two lines with Romano in — nothing too unrecognizable — and Landry slots right back in with Aaron Ness.
BRIDGEPORT
F: Persson-Cizikas-Rakhshani
DiBenedetto (A)-Frischmon (A)-Backman
Ullstrom-Nelson-Haley
Riley-Marcinko-Romano
D: de Haan-Wishart (A)
Donovan-Oleksy
Ness-Landry
G: Poulin
Reiter
CONNECTICUT
F: Audy-Marchessault – Newbury (A)-Thomas
Hrivik-Wellman-Miller
Grant-Tessier-Deveaux
Bourque-Owens-Thuresson
(Moses-scratch)
D: Bell (A)-Redden (C)
Erixon-Nightingale
Valentenko-Vernace
G: Talbot
Johnson
R: J.Koharski, McIsaac. L: Galvin, Colby.
The three needed to get Tony Romano eligible are presumably Jeremy Colliton, Tyler McNeely (who’s been termed day-to-day for a few days) and Katic, with the surgery recovery.
And you’ve probably seen by now that former Sound Tigers winger Raffi Torres received one of the longest suspensions in NHL history for his hit on Marian Hossa.
Edit: BTW, not sure if I’ve mentioned anywhere… the “game group” for practice has included tonight’s lineup along with Mike Halmo, Mouillierat and Scott Howes. Landry made it seven defensemen yesterday, so these six plus Katic. The other players have skated in the second group.