No Nino Niederreiter: “He did his rehab (Saturday morning), but he’s not 100 percent,” Scott Pellerin said. “He’s day-to-day.” Joey Diamond makes his pro debut, with some changes in the line combinations.
Pellerin wasn’t positive about his defense in the morning and had Mike Keenan dressed for warmup as an extra defenseman (on top of Jordan Hill, lining up up front again). One to scratch. Edit: It is Keenan.
BRIDGEPORT
F: Watkins (C)-Sundstrom-Backman
Diamond-Nelson-Wiles
DeFazio-Campbell-Riley (A)
Halmo-Hill-Kabanov
D: Donovan-Wishart (A)
Ness-McIver
Jackson-Landry
(Keenan-scratch)
G: Reiter
DiPietro
SPRINGFIELD
F: Russell-Machacek-Drazenovic
Audy-Marchessault – Chaput – Ford
Craig (C)-Joudrey (A)-Vogelhuber
Smith-Moon-Spencer
D: Holden (A)-Savard
Weber-Goloubef
Larkin-Ruth
G: McElhinney
York
R: Lewis. L: Baker, Galvin.