Bridgeport’s forward lines run almost as they ran last night in the third period, with Otto Koivula and Chris Bourque swapped from where they began the night, but Mike Sislo and Josh Ho-Sang flipped as well. The defense gets one tweak: Kyle Burroughs sits out with soreness of some kind. Yannick Rathgeb replaces him and slides right next to Devon Toews.
As such, with neither captain in, Ryan Bourque wears an ‘A’ again. It’s Christopher Gibson in net for the second day and the third game in a row, against Dan Vladar. Pink in the Rink day for the Bruins, who’ve got pink-trimmed sweaters.
BRIDGEPORT
F: Koivula-Fritz-Bernier (A)
C.Bourque – St. Denis – Ho-Sang
Bellows-Hitchcock-Sislo
Jones-Kubiak-R.Bourque (A)
D: Toews-Rathgeb
Wotherspoon-Helgeson (A)
Vande Sompel-Aho
(Casto-scratch)
G: Gibson
Smith
PROVIDENCE
F: Blidh-Cave (A)-Bakos
Fyten-Kovar-Hughes
Fitzgerald-Frederic-Kuhlman
Messner-Pond-Senyshyn
D: Zboril-Clifton
Breen (A)-Goloubef
Sherman-Johansson
G: Vladar
McIntyre
R: Deckard, O’Quinn. L: Lovett, Antipin.
Bridgeport scratches (believed healthy unless noted): Burroughs (soreness), apparently Casto, Dal Colle (lower), Eansor (lower), Gaudreau (lower), Gionta (veteran), Holmstrom (veteran).