Worcester ice, cats

The ice seems to have held up through warmup. Apparently — and stop me if you’ve heard this one — they had trouble when they tried to scrape down from a synchronized skating event. It looked pretty dicey even an hour before gametime, but they’re going to give it a go.

Micheal Haley wearing an ‘A’ tonight. Don’t know if that’s going to be a more permanent thing or not.

You will laugh after what we talked about this morning, but word is Scott Howes and Ty Wishart are both (actually) ill. One to scratch for the Sound Tigers. From the rushes, looks like it’s Katic. Missed a Worcester skater when I counted heads, then didn’t catch where Acolatse went, so I’ll fix if I have to. Edit: Katic and Acolatse are the last scratches.

BRIDGEPORT
F: DiBenedetto-Frischmon (A)-Backman
McNeely-Colliton (C)-Rakhshani
Haley (A)-Mouillierat-Romano
Gillies-Marcinko-Riley
D: Donovan-Oleksy
de Haan-Sinkewich
Ness-Landry
(Katic-scratch)
G: Poulin
Gill

WORCESTER
F: Mashinter-Kennedy-McCarthy (A)
Lucia-Moon-Reid
Sheppard-Del Monte-Combs
Bonneau (A)-Gogol-Livingston
D: Irwin-Pelech
Moore (C)-Doherty
Petrecki-O’Hanley
(Acolatse)
G: Sateri
Sexsmith

R: Lemelin, Mayer. L: T.Whittemore, J.Millea.

First time for Tim Mayer this year. And you’ve got to love a two-initial night. (Well, I’ve got to.)

Michael Fornabaio