Scratches: Springfield pregame

No shots in five games for Josh Ho-Sang, no points in four… “It’s not about points,” Brent Thompson said in a quick chat in the hallway tonight. “It’s about effort and play away from the puck. (From that) the points will come.” Ho-Sang is a scratch tonight, as is Carter Verhaeghe from the other day’s lineup.

Ryan Pulock is in, apparently for Loic Leduc, and so are Colin Markison and Ross Johnston. Scott Mayfield was sent down this morning; not sure if he has to get his NHL-CBA-mandated day off because he was up for those back-to-back games or not, but either way, he’s out tonight and expected to be in tomorrow at home.

Springfield’s Jayce Hawryluk looks to make his pro debut. Second-rounder two years ago had 106 points in 58 WHL games last year. It looked like MacAulay was their scratch, or at least I didn’t see him rush.

BRIDGEPORT
F: Winquist-Kearns (A)-Bernier (A)
Dal Colle-St. Denis-Fritz
Rowe-C.Jones-Markison
Johnston-B.Holmstrom (C)-J.Holmstrom
D: Cullity-Pulock
Toews-Burroughs
Landry-Graham
(Leduc-scratch)
G: McAdam
Williams

SPRINGFIELD
F: Bozon-Balisy-Robinson
Hawryluk-McCann-Thompson (A)
Hunt-Sgarbossa-Greco
Horvat (A)-Lammikko-Harper
(MacAulay-scratch)
D: Downing-Brown
McCoshen-Acolatse (A)
MacKenzie-Schemitsch
G: Berra
McKenna

R: Voss. L: F.Murphy, Wahl.

This should be the box.

Bridgeport scratches (believed healthy unless noted): Gibson (lower body), Lafranchise (lower body), likely Leduc, Mayfield, Boulton, Gionta (lower body), Ho-Sang, K.Jones (lower body), Verhaeghe.

Michael Fornabaio