The same 20 tonight as Sunday for Bridgeport, yes, but the five scratches are subtly different. The Islanders assigned Kyle Schempp to Worcester this afternoon after he participated in the morning skate. Schempp hasn’t played the last 11 games and was in for only one of the past 14. Worcester is home Friday, Saturday and Sunday. This’ll get him playing again. Not that I’ve had a chance to ask, but this feels like the kind of move where he might be back promptly after that.
But yeah, otherwise, Bridgeport is basically exactly as it finished Sunday’s game.
Rochester gets a couple of regulars back from long injury layoffs. Sacred Heart’s Justin Danforth also returns, on his 25th birthday.
BRIDGEPORT
F: Hitchcock-St. Denis-Bernier (A)
Bourque-Stevens-Bailey
Dal Colle – C.Jones – Ho-Sang
Eansor-Gionta-B.Holmstrom (C)
(J.Holmstrom-scratch)
D: Benoit-Lafranchise
Wotherspoon-Burroughs
Helgeson (A)-Vande Sompel
G: Gudlevskis
McAdam
ROCHESTER
F: Gill-Porter (C)-O’Regan
C.J.Smith-Blackwell-Cornel
Nylander-Malone-Fasching
Ross-Danforth-Krause
(D.Smith-scratch)
D: Paetsch-Tennyson
Percy-Redmond
MacWilliam (A)-Fedun (A)
G: Wilcox
Johansson
R: Schlenker, Voss. L: Colby, Hejna.
Bridgeport scratches (believed healthy unless noted): Cullity, Mueller, Toews (shoulder), apparently J.Holmstrom, K.Jones.
These two referees are scheduled for Sunday’s game in Providence, too.
Scoreboard Watching: Only game in town.