It’ll be Christopher Gibson coming right back tonight against Springfield off last night’s shutout. Tanner Fritz will also return, apparently straight in for Travis St. Denis.
First Springfield-Bridgeport game since last year’s hopes-and-dreams-dashing debacle at the MassMutual Center. The T-Birds, young again, are coming off a win over Hartford. Thomas Schemitsch looked like their scratch.
BRIDGEPORT
F: Bourque-Quine-Bernier (A)
Dal Colle – Fritz – Ho-Sang
Eansor-Stevens-Bailey
Johnston-C.Jones-B.Holmstrom (C)
(St. Denis-scratch)
D: Helgeson (A)-Aho
Toews-Burroughs
Lafranchise-Wotherspoon
G: Gibson
Gudlevskis
SPRINGFIELD
F: Hunt-Valk-Haapala
Balisy (A)-Lammikko-Grenier
Horvat (A)-Aagaard-Hawryluk
Farnham-Malgin-Greco
D: Downing-Brown (A)
Erixon-Scarlett
Wittchow-MacKenzie
(Schemitsch-scratch)
G: Sateri
Montembeault
R: Blandina, South. L: Suchanek, N.Briganti.
Bridgeport scratches (believed healthy unless noted): Cullity, Vande Sompel, Gionta (lower), J.Holmstrom, Schempp, apparently St. Denis.
First Bridgeport games for referee Brandon Blandina, ex-ECHLer, and Libor Suchanek, Czech linesman. Bridgeport will see them both again tomorrow in Providence.