Places in history: Lehigh Valley pregame

Game 60 tonight. Time hurries along sometimes, and sometimes it drags (Matt Donovan plays tonight up top for the first time in two months, for instance #FreeDono).

Seeing Donovan’s release from the cage while waiting for high schools this morning, I got to wondering about this:

All-time Bridgeport defenseman scoring

Name GP G A Pts
Matt Donovan 180 32 87 119
Mark Wotton 368 22 88 110
Aaron Ness 263 21 86 107
Bruno Gervais 134 24 47 71
Brandon Smith 137 14 55 69

(Through 3/11/15. Bold: Team record. Italic: defenseman record.)

Creeping up. Ness is actually now fourth in games played as a Sound Tiger, though catching Steve Regier (290) can’t happen this year. He could catch Regier in assists; Ness is sixth with his 86, the other two defensemen are just ahead, and Regier is third with 89.

Lukas Sutter and Dyson Stevenson get in tonight, while Chris Langkow and Scooter Vaughan sit out. That Johan-Sundstrom-on-right-wing tweak gets its airing tonight. One to scratch, but all indications were that it’ll be Kevin Czuczman tonight.

BRIDGEPORT
F: Persson-Jeffrey-Sundstrom
Halmo-Mouillierat (A)-Collberg
Zolnierczyk-Quine-McMillan
Gillies-Sutter-Stevenson
D: Ness (C)-Pulock
Pelech-Mayfield
Reinhart-Carkner (A)
(Czuczman-scratch)
G: Poulin
Simpson

LEHIGH VALLEY
F: Leier-Laughton-Stortini (A)
Akeson-Cousins-Gordon (A)
Powe (A)-Goumas-Mathers
Rosehill-Fyten-Hextall
D: Comrie-Alt
Hagg-Pettersson
Lauridsen-Lamarche
G: Stolarz
Zepp

R: Nicholson. L: Simeon, Colby.

This should be the box.

(Special jerseys tonight, BTW.)

Michael Fornabaio