Only one change for Bridgeport this morning, leaving John Persson and Sebastian Collberg as the extras: Peter Sivak is headed back to the Stockton Thunder. “He needs to play games,” Brent Thompson said. “Bodies are getting healthy, Collberg. We thought it’d be best to play some games and help Stockton on.”
Could be a new defensive mix waiting in Hartford tomorrow night. Veteran Tomas Kaberle, who’s been skating with the Rangers the past week, will reportedly sign a PTO with the Wolf Pack to play some games this weekend. Mike Kostka was put on waivers today as well.
Kaberle has played, including the playoffs, 1,086 games in the NHL. Bridgeport’s eight roster defensemen came into the season with 1,985 games combined… if you include NHL, AHL and college and major junior. (They had 47 in the NHL, most of them Aaron Ness’, and 329 in the AHL plus Ness’ three playoff games against Hartford in 2012.)
Last night’s ECHL transactions report revealed PTOs for two members of last year’s Sound Tigers defense: Mike Cornell to Springfield, so maybe he’ll show up Sunday; and Marc Cantin to Norfolk.
Corey Perry and Francois Beauchemin have the mumps. My doctor said my vaccinations were OK at my last physical, but now I’m wondering. (That Ducks-Kings game… caught the last 10 minutes of regulation or so, and what a 10 minutes they were. That was the kind of game, with talk of three-on-three abounding, that makes you (or at least me) pine for overtime rules c. 1996. Five more minutes of five-on-five would’ve been great, and a point for each after that would’ve been fine.)
And Aaron Portzline on Nathan Horton’s brutal dilemma.