The AHL announced a two-game suspension to Jon Landry for what was called a charging major near the end of Friday’s game. Mike Keenan gets in for him, and Sean Backman wears an ‘A’ in his absence. The lines are as they finished last night.
Anders Nilsson gets the call again. The Pirates have one to scratch, and it looked like Brett Hextall was just taking a pre-playoffs twirl. Edit: Actually, no: Martinook’s the scratch.
BRIDGEPORT
F: Niederreiter-Nelson-Strome
Persson-Sundstrom-Wetmore
DeFazio-Campbell-Riley (A)
Backman (A)-Clark-Kabanov
D: Donovan (A)-Keenan
Ness-Mayfield
Pedan-Cantin
G: Nilsson
Reiter
PORTLAND
F: McMillan-Miele (A)-Brown
Dziurzynski-(Martinook-scratch)-Lane
Shinnimin-Werek-Clackson
Lessio-Feser-Bodie (A)
Hextall
D: Valabik-Rundblad
Brodeur (A)-Melindy
Goncharov-Sinkewich
G: Lee
Rawlings
R: McIsaac. L: Briggs, Galvin.
I’ll be on with Phil after the first period.