After giving a look at John Stevens in the middle on the second line yesterday, Bridgeport keeps Josh Winquist there tonight, alongside newly NHL-dealed Tanner Fritz. Kane Lafranchise returns for Jesse Graham, returning the top four to its top-four state.
Eamon McAdam in net for a game they, you know, could kind of use, five points back with nine to play.
BRIDGEPORT
F: Verhaeghe-Kearns (A)-Rowe
Dal Colle-Winquist-Fritz
K.Jones-C.Jones-Wallace
Johnston-B.Holmstrom (C)-Markison
(Stevens-scratch)
D: Lafranchise-Pulock
Toews-Burroughs
Cullity-Landry (A)
G: McAdam
Williams
SPRINGFIELD
F: Greco-Rau-Acolatse
Wittchow-McCann-Hawryluk
Hunt-Balisy (A)-Thompson (A)
MacAulay-Leitner-Buckles
(Lynch-scratch)
D: Downing-Brown
McCoshen-Weegar (A)
MacKenzie-Schemitsch
G: Wilcox
Brittain
R: Mullen, Tufts. L: F.Murphy, St. Lawrence.
Bridgeport scratches (believed healthy unless noted): Gibson (lower body), Bischoff, Graham, Leduc, Bernier (upper body), Boulton, Gaudreau, J.Holmstrom, Nowick, Schempp (upper body), Travis St. Denis (lower body), Stevens.
Scoreboard watching (EastWatch ’17): Only Atlantic Division game in town tonight. Only midweek Atlantic Division game at all, in fact. (Springfield and Bridgeport make it up by being off Sunday.) Syracuse, trying to hold on in a North Division race that’s even tighter than the Atlantic, visits Binghamton, if you really want another box to follow.