Big and small changes: Manchester (1) pregame

Kevin Poulin’s up. Don’t know if this would’ve been his turn, but Stephon Williams gets the nod anyway. Bridgeport signed WHL forward Calder Brooks to an ATO, but he’s not in the lineup tonight. So two changes that… may not have meant anything, anyway.

The lineup’s juggled plenty otherwise, though Colin Markison for Lukas Sutter is the only apparent in/out. Chris Langkow moves to the middle, and some familiar or semi-familiar combos show up. Josh Gratton, like Sutter, took a knee during rushes for the Monarchs. Edit: Actually, Gratton’s in; Alex Lintuniemi is scratched.

BRIDGEPORT
F: Jeffrey (A)-Quine-Vaughan
Collberg-Mouillierat (A)-McMillan
Gillies-Sundstrom-Eberle
Gallant-Langkow-Markison
Sutter
D: Ness (C)-Pulock
Pelech-Mayfield
Reinhart-Carkner
G: Williams
Motte

MANCHESTER
F: Mersch-Dowd-Backman (A)
O’Neill-O’Brien-Auger
Bissonnette-Crescenzi-Raine
(Lintuniemi-scratch)-Horvat-Sabourin
Gratton
D: Bodnarchuk (A)-Gravel
Schultz (A)-Miller
Forbort-Ebert
G: Berube
Bartosak

R: Lemelin. L: Cooke, Baker.

This should be the box.

Got my Manchester/Kilpatrick Trophy checklist next to me (short and simplest version: I think two wins and a Utica loss does it)… and my messy Eastern Conference playoff checklist. Getting my magic numbers fix in by any means necessary. (Bridgeport’s against Norfolk is five.)

Michael Fornabaio