It’s been a tough little stretch for Stephon Williams lately; four of his past seven appearances have come in relief, and in two of those four, he’s been saddled with a loss. If you count the time earlier this year when he came back into a game he started (which we probably shouldn’t), he has tied Kenny Reiter’s team record of eight relief appearances as a Sound Tigers goalie. (He’s 2-2 in relief, which is more decisions than anyone else; Freddy Cloutier also has two losses, while Poor Joel Martin was 0-2-1.)
These stats are relatively meaningless today, because Williams gets his first start of January at the Dunk to close the three-in-three. Josh Ho-Sang is back in, as are Ross Johnston and Jon Landry; Loic Leduc, Colin Markison and, apparently, Kellen Jones are out. Numbers, Brent Thompson said.
On the other side is Anton Khudobin, who’s coming off back-to-back shutouts and gave up one goal in the game before those.
BRIDGEPORT
F: Winquist-Kearns (A)-Bernier (A)
Dal Colle – St. Denis – Ho-Sang
Rowe-C.Jones-Fritz
Johnston-B.Holmstrom (C)-J.Holmstrom
(K.Jones-scratch)
D: Lafranchise-Pulock
Toews-Burroughs
Cullity-Landry
G: Williams
Halak
PROVIDENCE
F: Cehlarik-Szwarz-Simpson
DeBrusk-Cave-Mueller
Rinaldo-Acciari-Porter
Heinen-Kuraly-Randell
D: Cross (C)-(Bartkowski-scratch)
Grzelcyk-Grant
Marshall-Casto
Doherty
G: Khudobin
Subban
R: Moser, Tufts. L: Bathe, Lovett.
Bridgeport scratches (believed healthy unless noted): Gibson (lower body), Leduc, Boulton, apparently K.Jones, Markison.