As the Big Club wraps things up today:
Opening-day Sound Tigers, where they are now:
NYI: 10
BST: 7
STK: 4
Traded: 3
Sweden: 1
Players on NHL contracts on each roster now::
NYI: 30
BST: 8
STK: 3
(Junior: 2/Sweden: 2)
Players on NYI/BST full-season NHL/AHL contracts:
BST: 10
STK: 11
So here we are, what would’ve been the home finale but for that foamy mess last night.
The paint under the ice still bears the scars; the ice has been used for the Youth Hockey Shootout, and we’ll see how it holds up with the bigger kids. One to scratch for Bridgeport; all seven defensemen rushed. Finley, reportedly banged up, is the scratch. Pedan is starting with Burroughs, which I’ll guess means a reunion of Leboeuf and Newton. Reportedly listed with ‘A’s on the lineup card are Langkow and Vaughan.
(AHL SPC italicized, PTOs bold, ATOs underlined)
BRIDGEPORT
F: Vaughan–Langkow–Harris
Walters-Quine-Hickman
Bruton-Holmstrom–Crus Rydberg
Antipin–Root–Gagnon
D: (Finley (A)-scratch)-Burroughs
Ness (A)-Graham
Pedan-Leboeuf
Newton
G: Poulin
Reiter
SPRINGFIELD
F: Collins-Camper-Thompson
Jacques-Chaput-Dano
Craig (C)-Sedlak-Tyrell
Vogelhuber–Tynan-Hansen
D: St. Denis (A)-Erixon
Weber-McNeill
Melart-Jackson
G: Forsberg
McKenna
R: Chmielewski. L: Simeon, Wahl.