Back home: Hartford pregame

Back after a few days of NCAA hockey (though indeed Funky Skaterboy’s at center ice instead of a big tiger) to find a few NCAA players. An assortment of juniors could be on the way soon, along with last night’s reported Kyle Burroughs. Sounds like Victor Crus Rydberg is likely as well.

Kevin Poulin, new daddy of a baby boy, starts for Bridgeport, and it looks like Chris Bruton returns after two months, too. He returns without the letter on his sweater. Scott Pellerin said they’ve kind of settled into that Ness/Gallant/Finley trio with the A’s, and more importantly he wants Bruton to focus on his game over these last 10 games coming back from the upper-body injury.

Swap on the D pairs, from the rushes, and a few other tweaks as well. One to scratch for Bridgeport. Looked like Broda. (Clark has been under the weather, Phil lets us know, so he’s out and Broda’s in.)

BRIDGEPORT
F: Walters-(A.Clark-scratch)-Langlois
Rosen-Root-Bruton
Mangene-Langkow-Vaughan
Gallant (A)-Wetmore-Johnson
Broda
D: Finley (A)-Leboeuf
Ness (A)-Mayfield
Pedan-Newton
G: Poulin
Reiter

HARTFORD
F: Bourque-Hrivik-Fast
Haley (A)-Hensick-Powe (A)
Vaive-Latta-Kristo
Beach-Jean-O’Donnell
D: Johnson (C)-Hughes
Allen-Stamler
Syvret-McIlrath
G: LeNeveu
Missiaen

R: Hanson, Leblanc. L: Galvin, Redding.

Michael Fornabaio