Soundin' Off

–Katic recalled for the first time, expected to make his NHL debut tonight at Philly.
–Joensuu sent down.
–Colliton also down after clearing waivers.

Team was supposed to be leaving around this time to spend the night in Manchester. Hoping to hear who’s making the trip, or if they might bring someone else in on defense.

Edit, 3:30: A guest in the comments passes along that Cincinnati announced it has loaned big defenseman Benn Olson to Bridgeport. Has 46 AHL games to his credit, mostly with the Albany River Rats.

Edit2, 5:10: And another defenseman: Elmira says it has loaned Chris Frank to the Sound Tigers.

And RIP, Jerrold Kessel.

Edit3, 6:45: Final pieces to the puzzle announced from Manchester: Rob Kwiet and Brady Leisenring released from their PTOs.

Anton Klementyev is out, and Dylan Reese sits again without even a warmup twirl tonight. So Rob Kwiet makes his Bridgeport debut against his old mates, and Jon Landry returns in No. 51.

Bridgeport has one to scratch; Gallant went the first time, and Pitton went the second. Didn’t see a second ‘A’ out there.

Edit: In tricky fashion, after switching off its left wingers, Bridgeport scratches the right winger, Leisenring.

BRIDGEPORT
F: DiBenedetto-Ullstrom-Castonguay
Svendsen-Hisey-Rakhshani
Bourbeau-Romano-Figren
Gallant/Pitton-Marcinko-Leisenring-scratch)
D: Katic-Motherwell
Kwiet-Wotton (C)
Kohn (A)-Landry
G: Koskinen
Martin

PROVIDENCE
F: MacDermid-Whitfield (C)-MacDonald (A)
Reich (A)-Hamill-Caron
Sauve-Arniel-Ling
Smotherman-Roussel-McGrattan
D: Bartkowski-Cohen
Valabik-Bodnarchuk
McIver-Alexandrov
G: Schaefer
Hutchinson

R: Sullivan. L: Simeon, Galvin.

Another new referee, Joe Sullivan. Young guy from St. Louis, apparently. He worked the ECHL All-Star Game this year.

….

Dan Sernoffsky of the Lebanon Daily News died early today after a valiant battle with cancer. He was just 61.

Dan was always welcoming for me in the Giant Center press box, in the East Division days. Friendly, funny (the past few years, always told me to watch out for the deer). Covered at least one game for us. He’ll be missed — he’s missed already.

The AHL sent out this statement from Dave Andrews: The American Hockey League is saddened by the news of Dan’s passing today. He was well respected by his peers for his coverage of the Hershey Bears and the AHL, and you’d be hard pressed to find a writer more dedicated to his beat than Dan was, right up until the end.

Our condolences go out to his wife Jan, his entire family and his friends and colleagues.

We share those sentiments.