Carter Verhaeghe indeed makes his Bridgeport debut in place of James Wright; not positive if that’s just rest or if something’s up off last night. Matt Carkner also gets back in, from appearances for Matt Finn. And Parker Milner did make it from Alaska. “Redeyes, baby,” indeed.
Providence is without Austin Czarnik, among myriad others, and had eight defensemen dressed for warmup, skating Max Iafrate up front.
One to scratch each way.
BRIDGEPORT
F: Whitney-Kearns-Beck
Halmo (A)-Quine-Petrov
Vaive-Verhaeghe-Florek
Johnston-Holmstrom (C)-Collberg
D: Pelech-Mayfield
Czuczman-Pulock
Carkner (A)-Graham
(Finn-scratch)
G: Williams
Milner
PROVIDENCE
F: Vatrano-Khokhlachev-Phillips
DeFazio (A)-Cave-Camara
Blidh-Acciari-Hickman
Smith-Neiley-Iafrate
D: Breen-Casto (A)
Arnesson-Bellemore (A)
Irwin-Simonelli
(Youds-scratch)
G: Ginn
McIntyre
R: Lemelin. L: Galvin, Simeon.
Bridgeport scratches: Gibson (lower body), Cullity (healthy), Leduc (healthy), Wright (healthy? Edit: upper body), Gomes (healthy), Rowe (upper body), C.Jones (upper body) and one more (Finn (healthy)).