The Sound Tigers go into this one without Brendan Witt, whose father-in-law is ill. Jake Gannon gets back in, and the defense pairs get tweaked, with Mark Wotton (in his 1,000th North American game) rejoining former partner Jon Gleed.
Morency replaces Haley.
BRIDGEPORT
F: Reich (A)-Mauldin (A)-Joensuu
Smith-Radja-Rakhshani
Bentivoglio-Haskins-Martin
Morency-Marcinko-Figren
D: Friesen-Gannon
Wotton (C)-Gleed
Motherwell-Flood
G: Munroe
Lawson
MANCHESTER
F: Gauthier (A)-Azevedo-Holloway
Mikus-Elkins-Meckler
Lewis (A)-Loktionov-Moller
King-Zeiler-Westgarth
D: Martinez-Kolomatis
Bagnall (C)-Campbell
Hickey-Voynov
(Mullen-scratch)
G: Bernier
Berube
R: Pelletier. L: Colby, Galvin.