Portland pregame, pressing matters

No Matt Watkins or Joey Diamond, and Jon Landry’s not with the team for a personal/family matter. A few interesting switches because, in part, of all that. Among the changes, Jason Clark gets in for his first AHL game since Nov. 24 and his first game, period, since Feb. 10. One to scratch each way.

BRIDGEPORT
F: Persson-Nelson-Niederreiter
Ullstrom-Strome-Sundstrom
DeFazio-Campbell-Riley (A)
Kabanov-Clark-Backman
D: Donovan (A)-Wishart
Ness-Mayfield
Pedan-McIver (A)
(Hill-scratch)
G: DiPietro
Nilsson

PORTLAND
F: Hextall-Miele (A)-Brown
Lessio-Martinook-Lane
Dziurzynski-Brophey (A)-Bodie
Shinnimin-Werek-Louis
D: Brodeur-Rundblad
Summers (A)-Goncharov
Gormley-Sinkewich
(Melindy-scratch)
G: Visentin
Lee

R: Binda, Burchell. L: Briggs, Colby.

Marc Cantin is back on the roster though reportedly not back in the house yet.

Appears Ron Hextall is in town to watch Brett Hextall.

And in case you missed it yesterday, Fake Team Awards voting is on.

Michael Fornabaio