Keegan Lowe has already picked up Bridgeport, scoring the game-winner against Hershey for St. John’s with 15.6 seconds left. Providence is in Albany with Dan Vladar in net, with Zane McIntyre up and Malcolm Subban out; it hasn’t made much difference for the Bruins, who’re up 5-0 at this writing late second.
Scoreboard watching only goes so far, of course, if you don’t take care of your own business. Destiny is squarely in the Sound Tigers’ own hands with 11 games left, and Bridgeport comes into Hartford to face a Wolf Pack team that has lost nine in a row.
The lines look like they did yesterday, and Patrick Cullity gets back into the lineup for the first time since the all-star break. Eamon McAdam gets the first start in the post-Halak era.
BRIDGEPORT
F: Rowe-Kearns (A)-Wallace
Dal Colle-Winquist-Fritz
Verhaeghe-C.Jones-K.Jones
Johnston-B.Holmstrom (C)-J.Holmstrom
(Markison-scratch)
D: Lafranchise-Pulock
Toews-Burroughs
Cullity-Landry (A)
G: McAdam
Williams
HARTFORD
F: Beck-Catenacci-Ronning
Joly-Hrivik (A)-Jensen
Kovacs-Fogarty-Stromwall
Carey-McRae-Brown (A)
(Chapie-scratch)
D: Gilmour-Paliotta
Noonan-Hughes
Graves-Summers (A)
G: Skapski
Hellberg
R: T.Koharski, C.Brown. L: Baker, Galvin.
Bridgeport scratches (believed healthy unless noted): Gibson (lower body), Graham, Leduc, Bernier (upper body), Boulton, apparently Markison, Nowick, Travis St. Denis (lower body).
Scoreboard watching (EastWatch ’17): Providence at Albany; Wilkes-Barre/Scranton at Lehigh Valley; St. John’s 4, Hershey 3.
Note that tomorrow’s game is apparently on NHL Network.
Meanwhile up the road, Minnesota lost to Notre Dame; draft picks Taylor Cammarata and Jake Bischoff’s college careers are over.