Packing it in

The last game in these blue sweaters, under this name for the 2000 Calder Cup champions. For whatever it’s worth, a new era begins tomorrow. Tonight, Bridgeport sends them out.

Still a shame they didn’t meet in the ’02 playoffs. Maybe someday it’ll be Connecticut vs. Bridgeport in the playoffs*.

Brandon Svendsen gets moved up into Jon Sim’s spot with Bailey and Rakhshani; Tony Romano gets a shift to the wing to play with Colliton and Blight; Ullstrom gets back in Romano’s centerman’s spot.

Hartford has one to scratch. They sent all seven defensemen.

BRIDGEPORT
F: Svendsen-Bailey-Rakhshani
Romano-Colliton (A)-Blight
Campbell-Ullstrom-Labelle
Haley (A)-Marcinko-Figren
D: O’Neill-Klementyev
Motherwell-Landry
Friesen-Wotton (C)
G: Koskinen
Lawson

HARTFORD
F: Zuccarello-Kennedy (A)-Weise
Grachev-Newbury (A)-Williams
DiDiomete-Tessier-Kolarik
Soryal-Garlock-(McKelvie-scratch)
D: Redden (A)-Nightingale
Valentenko-Niemi
McDonagh-Kundratek
Bickel
G: Johnson
Talbot

R: Cozzan. L: Cooke, Colby.

*-No matter how much that sounds like an elections joke, forget it.

Michael Fornabaio