A Very Black Friday
With Trevor Frischmon reportedly banged up (“day-to-day,” per Brent Thompson), missing his first game in a long while, left winger Blair Riley comes up from Chicago of the ECHL (former BST trainer Mike...
View ArticleAdjust your depth charts (with Marcinko update)
Afternoon edit: Tomas Marcinko receives a three-game suspension from the league for Monday’s boarding penalty. Of note, both of the other guys who were suspended will miss a Bridgeport game: Cody Bass...
View ArticleTampa Bay claims Wallace
Afternoon edit: The Islanders sent Aaron Ness down this afternoon. Edit2: Cizikas up (possible NHL debut to come), Poulin down as well. Edit3: Kael Mouillierat’s agent says he’s agreed to terms. Tim...
View ArticleHitting hard
You could probably have written something like the script to this one before the game, though you might’ve taken a Providence power-play goal or two away for realism’s sake. Depleted lineup. Depleted...
View ArticleUpon review
Replay scoreboard: Fourth use, with… Wait. Let’s go back. Puck bouncing. Four penalties in the first assaults the flow. Bridgeport escapes with a lead. (Blair Riley, three-game goal streak.) Portland...
View ArticleWrapping up further
Weird that it’s over like that. It happens. It does appear that Kevin Poulin’s 50 saves on 54 shots set a team record. Wade Dubielewicz made 45 on 48 shots in Game 6 of the 2006 playoffs. His 22 in the...
View ArticlePut it in the books
The Islanders announced today that they’ve signed Blair Riley to a deal for next year. Nice payoff for a kid who came up and did nothing but work for this team, defensively, on the PK, on the...
View ArticleBreaking out (in small amounts): Portland postgame (plus labor peace?)
Edit: Twitter lit up with reports shortly after 5 a.m. that the NHL and NHLPA have a tentative agreement, with much still to be done but an apparent deal on some of the biggest issues. Without...
View ArticleWatkins named captain/DiPietro waived
Well, the news of the day shifted a bit after the morning skate when Arthur Staple reported that Rick DiPietro has been placed on waivers. Should he clear tomorrow, he’ll come down and Kevin Poulin...
View ArticlePointing forward
They’ve been together for a long time now, and we should probably find a nickname for them, but Brandon DeFazio-Scott Campbell-Blair Riley was pretty much everywhere tonight in this nutty little game....
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