Yesterday it was Kyle Burroughs and Mitch Vande Sompel out. Tonight it looks like it’s Burroughs and Sebastian Aho. We’ll discuss postgame.
Ryan Hitchcock is back in for Scott Eansor, and they swap right wingers on the top two lines from how they started last night, but things otherwise stay the same for Bridgeport. Jeremy Smith gets the start tonight against his old team and his old partner in the Bruins goaltending tandem.
On the other side, Jordan Szwarz is out after that hit he took from Parker Wotherspoon last night. Urho Vaakanainen was called up. And Sound Tigers legend Jan Kovar makes his North American debut against Bridgeport.
BRIDGEPORT
F: C.Bourque-St. Denis-Sislo
Bellows-Fritz-Bernier (A)
Dal Colle – Jones – Ho-Sang
R.Bourque (A)-Hitchcock-Koivula
D: Toews-Vande Sompel
Helgeson (A)-Rathgeb
Wotherspoon-Casto
(Aho-scratch)
G: Smith
Gibson
PROVIDENCE
F: Blidh-Cave-McNeill
Cehlarik-Kovar-Bakos
Hughes – Forsbacka Karlsson – Kuhlman
Fitzgerald-Frederic-Senyshyn
D: Lauzon-Goloubef
Zboril-Clifton
Sherman-Messner
G: McIntyre
Vladar
R: Halkidis, Tarnaris. L: Blanchard, Leavitt.
Bridgeport scratches (believed healthy unless noted): apparently Aho, Burroughs, Eansor (Edit: lower), Gaudreau (lower), Gionta (veteran), Holmstrom (veteran).
Mitch Korn in the house for the second day in a row.