So Dannel Malloy invites the Islanders to Hartford (I can’t even conceive of it), and they’re just gonna play a hockey game tonight? Whatever.
Steve Bernier is, as was foretold yesterday, out tonight as the Sound Tigers go for eight in a row coming back from the all-star break. They look as they did yesterday, with Kellen Jones taking Bernier’s spot and Ross Johnston an honorary Holmstrom. Pat Cullity is the odd man out on defense tonight, and Jon Landry wears an ‘A’ in Bernier’s absence.
Patrick Mullen, just back from Latvia, makes his Amerks debut. One to scratch for Rochester; looked like Kyle Bonis for Rochester as it looked like Colin Markison for Bridgeport.
BRIDGEPORT
F: Rowe-Kearns (A)-K.Jones
Dal Colle – Winquist – Ho-Sang
St. Denis-C.Jones-Fritz
Johnston-B.Holmstrom (C)-J.Holmstrom
(Markison-scratch)
D: Lafranchise-Pulock
Toews-Burroughs
Landry (A)-Leduc
G: Halak
Williams
ROCHESTER
F: Schneider (A)-Kennedy-Baptiste
Karabacek-Dupuy-Cornel
Muzito-Bagenda – Nylander – Fasching
Catenacci-Rodrigues-Bailey
(Bonis-scratch)
D: Austin-Nelson
Burgdoerfer (A)-Mullen
Bennett-Strachan (A)
G: Ullmark
Muse
R: Lambert. L: Briggs, Simeon.
Bridgeport scratches (believed healthy unless noted): Gibson (lower body), Cullity, Bernier (upper body), Boulton, apparently Markison.