Bridgeport’s first road game of the season is Albany’s home opener, a scheduled 5:05 start. Got a football game to worry about first, so may not be focused here in time. But you sure can be. (Please. Then catch me up.) Listen to Josh at AHL Live. Follow Paul, Pete and the Devils. See you in a bit.
–Just getting resettled after fun at Taft Field, but a Pulock keep-in and shot deflected by Scooter Vaughan for a 1-0 Bridgeport lead with a little over five minutes left in the first. Looks like Ness and Courtnall and Vaughan in for Mayfield and Langkow and Gallant. Here’s the box.
–Thompson in behind the D and beats Leggio for his fifth goal. An assist for Raman Hrabarenka, Tiger Killer. 1-1 with three and a half left. I should be writing football. Ah well.
–Two PPs for the Devils, one for the Sound Tigers in the second so far. Getting back to the game, a long shift for what appears to be the fourth line yields to a Devils chance against the top line, but Leggio dove on top of a puck on the goal line. Reid Boucher then trips Graham for Bridgeport’s second PP.
–Still 1-1 after two. Shots close to even.
I’m guessing they look like:
F: Lee-Mouillierat (A)-Halmo (A) (because they’re wearing white tonight after blue last night)
Persson-Stretch-Zolnierczyk
Gillies-Sundstrom-Collberg
Courtnall-Quine-Vaughan
D: Ness (C)-Pulock
Pedan-Reinhart
Czuczman-Graham
G: Leggio
Poulin
–Persson, led ahead on a two-on-one on the left side by Stretch, has all kinds of room to walk in and beat Wedgewood over the glove to give Bridgeport a 2-1 lead not five minutes into the third.
–The Devils tie it quickly. Ben Thomson’s shot hits Cam Janssen and goes in. Leggio may’ve been asking about a kick-in; wasn’t happy, either way. 2-2.
–Surprised that San Jose-New Jersey is blacked out here. (Don’t get MSG+, so rarely an issue.) The Albany Devils and Bridgeport traded overlapping penalties, and now Paul Thompson misses the net on a two-on-one with about two and a half minutes left in regulation.
–Whitney for cross-checking Czuczman into Leggio with 1:31 to go.
–Mouillierat loses at the blue line going into the Albany zone, Thompson breaks away cleanly and goes high-glove for the game-winning shorty with 44.0 to go: Albany 3, Bridgeport 2, final.
–Scott Timmins made the play to deny entry, it appears.
–Brent Thompson was, all things considered, happy with the game, structurally. “The attention to detail needs to be better. There are little things we need to clean up. Mistakes happen. … We pissed away a chance to get a point, but with that, we played one of the better games of the year.” The game-winner: “it’s a turnover that doesn’t usually happen with one of our top guys. I’m not looking to one play, I’m looking at the entire game.”
Leggio thought that tying goal was kicked in; Thompson said he hadn’t had a good look at it yet.
He said Mayfield’s day-to-day and could be back in tomorrow. The other lineup changes come in part from having numbers. “We just want to make sure guys stay sharp. We’ll have a couple of tough decisions tomorrow.”
Speaking of tomorrow, (a) Springfield is playing as we speak; (2) see you then.