Team photo day, and Alan Quine joins the grand old tradition of the likes of Sean Bergenheim and Rob Collins: Players who will appear in the photo, totally, really, we mean it. He was called up this morning. No “emergency” notation on this one: He’s their third recall.
The lines are, if I had to guess, still a work in progress with two practice days left before the weekend. Bracken Kearns reunited with James Wright, with Sebastian Collberg riding shotgun there. Marc-Andre Cliche back with Justin Florek and Ben Holmstrom. Connor Jones in Quine’s usual spot. And Justin Vaive in a real jersey color, no red no-contact for him today. He said he’s feeling better. Brent Thompson said Vaive has at least one more trip to the doctor before he’s fully cleared.
Matt Carkner’s one-game suspension for the late instigator became official.
Hartford-Toronto tomorrow morning. In the blog’s grand old tradition of Tables That Arrive Way Too Late To Help: magic numbers for Bridgeport to finish ahead of other teams, or for other teams to finish ahead of Bridgeport.
| Team | For BPT | For Opp | Tiebreaker to: |
|---|---|---|---|
| WBS | 11 | 2 | WBS |
| PVD | 10 | 3 | BPT |
| POR | 9 | 4 | POR |
| HFD | 2 | 11 | BPT |
| UTI | 6 | 8 | TBD |
–Bridgeport leads Utica by a point and a regulation/OT win. Should they tie in both, Bridgeport won the season series.
–The Providence tiebreaker keeps messing with my mind, so to lay it out for Future Me and in case it messes with yours too: Providence leads by four points, but they both have 36 ROWs. Were Providence to get another ROW in the next two games to take a lead in that tiebreaker, Bridgeport would have to win the last game of the year in regulation to get even if everything else worked in the Sound Tigers’ favor, so they would be no worse than even in the ROW tiebreaker, too. Bridgeport already clinched the season series.
Wednesday’s games of tably interest: Hartford at Toronto, 11 a.m.; Springfield at Providence, 7:05 p.m.
Tomorrow is also Niagara-Kingston 4, but, well.
If you didn’t see it yesterday: Fake Team Awards balloting is underway. I’ll plug it a time or 12.
Missouri’s playoff roster includes everyone from here. Richard Matvichuk was named coach of the year; Richard Seeley was fourth.
Peter Budaj was named the AHL’s top goalie. Top defenseman comes shortly. Edit: It’s the perpetually incredible T.J. Brennan, a logical choice.
The NHL Central Scouting Bureau put out its final rankings. Tage Thompson was No. 20 among North American skaters. Ridgefield’s Chad Krys was 53rd, New Canaan’s Patrick Harper was 143rd, Ridgefield’s Adam Karashik was 154th and Wilton’s Matt Gosiewski was 196th.
And RIP, Lucy Carlesimo.