The throwbacks look funny with the current pants and socks, but otherwise, not bad at all. The orange, I was worried up close that it might look too funny, too different. From up here, it doesn’t.
Now, will they play like some of the teams that wore the original on which this sweater is based? We’ll see.
The Sound Tigers have one to scratch. Justin Taylor, called up today from Kalamazoo (where he was 23-19-42 with 101 PIM in 41 games), was out there in No. 14. Edit: He’s in; Romano’s out.
BRIDGEPORT
F: DiBenedetto-Ullstrom-Castonguay
Rakhshani-Hisey-Joensuu
Bourbeau-Marcinko-Figren
Pitton-Svendsen-(Romano-scratch)
Taylor
D: Wotton (C)-Motherwell
Kohn (A)-Landry
Olson-Frank
G: Martin
Koskinen
HERSHEY
F: Kane (A)-Aucoin (A)-Pinizzotto
Greentree-Willsie-Bouchard
Lacroix-Joudrey (C)-de Kastrozza
Kugryshev-Carroll-Rechlicz
D: McNeill-Fahey
Souray-Collins
Wellar-Orlov
G: Ford
DeMichiel
R: Mayer, Fraser. L: Cooke, Colby.
Ryan Fraser returns to the officials’ rotation after losing two weeks to an appendectomy.