Matt Lashoff has played seven games against Bridgeport in his AHL career, with a goal and two assists and 11 shots on goal. (Three of those games were in Bridgeport; one assist. The other two points both came in one game in 2006-07 at Providence.) In his other 305 AHL games, he has 41 goals and 108 assists for 149 points. So avoiding Bridgeport as an opponent, clearly, will help his points-per-game average. #analysis
Any points he can contribute in his Sound Tigers debut will help, because Bridgeport is without Cory Conacher (lower body) tonight. Sebastian Collberg and Justin Courtnall return; Kevin Czuczman is a healthy scratch for Lashoff, and there’s one more forward to come out. Scooter Vaughan was said to be a gametime decision, upper body. Edit: Vaughan is, indeed, out.
BRIDGEPORT
F: Collberg-Mouillierat-McDonald (A)
Persson-Quine-Zolnierczyk (A)
Gillies-Sundstrom-Stretch
Gallant-Langkow-Courtnall
(Vaughan-scratch)
D: Ness (C)-Lashoff
Pelech-Mayfield
Reinhart-Graham
G: Leggio
Poulin
SYRACUSE
F: Ikonen-Angelidis (C)-Vermin
Marchessault-Namestnikov-Blunden
Gourde-Richard-Paradis
Kunyk-Lynch-Neilson
(Smith-scratch)
D: Cote (A)-Blujus
Koekkoek-Corrente
Mormina (A)-Dodero
G: Gudlevskis
Vasilevskiy
R: D.Banfield. L: Galvin, Simeon.
Bridgeport wearing blue. Not positive why, but I’m good with it.