Long day of hockey for this guy. Nice to be back in a place where there’s an expectation of rolling four lines… though the Division I title game came close. Intense game, Darien and Fairfield Prep.
But we were talking about the Sound Tigers. Justin Vaive and Scott Mayfield indeed return, straight in for Sebastian Collberg and Jesse Graham, and that James Wright/Mike Halmo swap appears to have taken.
Bridgeport in blue; assume Portland had to wear white somewhere else on the road? There’s one to scratch for each of them; pretty sure it’s Ross Johnston for Bridgeport, and I didn’t catch if Sena Acolatse went the second time for Portland.
BRIDGEPORT
F: Verhaeghe-Kearns (A)-Wright (A)
Halmo-Quine-Fritz
Vaive-B.Holmstrom (C)-Florek
Gomes-C.Jones-Markison
(Johnston-scratch)
D: Czuczman-Carkner
Cullity-Mayfield
Finn-Lafranchise
G: Gibson
Williams
PORTLAND
F: Rau-Grimaldi-Harper
Balisy-Megan-Brickley
McFarland-Olson (A)-Flick
Schremp-Knight-Simpson
D: Matheson-Regner (C)
Gaunce (A)-Brown
Weegar-MacKenzie
(Acolatse-scratch)
G: Brittain
McKenna
R: Moser. L: Kiriakos, Colby.
Bridgeport scratches (believed healthy unless noted): Burroughs (lower body), Graham, McCormack, Whitney (right leg), Rowe (lower body), Cliche (undisclosed), Collberg, looked like Johnston
Ben Moser’s first game here. He worked a Sound Tigers game in Albany on Feb. 14.