Soundin' Off

With Brett Motherwell out in favor of Cameron Wind’s pro debut, Bridgeport has the distinction of a lineup without an NHL-contracted player (because Dustin Kohn and Anton Klementyev are out, and everyone else is up) or an AHL-contracted player (Motherwell and Mark Wotton). Benn Olson is the wily veteran on a pro tryout. The other five are on amateur tryouts.

The forward lines remain the same. As noted on Twitter this morning, Pat Bingham wasn’t ready to rule Robin Figren or Wotton out for the weekend.

The Whale, whose magic number is three, have one to scratch.

BRIDGEPORT
F: McNeely-Colliton (A)-Rakhshani
DiBenedetto (A)-Ullstrom-Romano
Pereira-Hisey-Day
O’Neil-Marcinko-Neigum
D: Donovan-Bidlevskii
Olson-Ness
Wind-Campanale
G: Koskinen
Lawson

HARTFORD/CONNECTICUT/ETC.
F: Dupont-Newbury (A)-Weise
Grachev-Mitchell-Couture
Grant-Lemieux-Je.Williams
Soryal-Garlock-Tessier
D: Redden (A)-Nightingale
Valentenko-Parlett
Bickel-Kundratek
Niemi
G: Grumet-Morris
Talbot

R: Vinnerborg. L: Simeon, Galvin.

Marcus Vinnerborg makes his Harbor Yard debut. He has worked two Bridgeport games, in November at Charlotte and in February at Manchester (both losses, but given the preceding, you could have guessed that), and both with another ref.

Options limited by injury and maybe the OHL playoffs*, the Islanders signed Matt Campanale to an amateur tryout for tonight’s game. Jack Hillen’s apparently out.

An ATO obviously can’t be on another team’s reserve list, but he can (or at least he used to be able to) be on yours; that said, presumably Ness and Donovan cease to be “unsigned draft picks” when they sign for next year. (I’m only presuming that.)

Campanale is eligible to return to Bridgeport on another ATO.

Arriving in Bridgeport today is 19-year-old defenseman Cameron Wind, a teammate of Alex O’Neil’s at Brampton. He has been assigned No. 48, which cleans up every number up to 53. So, next on the watch list: 54, 56, 59, 60.

That time of year: Down lower on the farm, Kalamazoo lost Game 1 of its best-of-5 series to the Everblades. Bobby Goepfert took a break from livetweeting Jeopardy and made 31 saves. Odessa took a 2-1 lead in its first-round series behind Joel Martin. And look who else had a natural hat trick yesterday.

And Islanders coaching eras will collide, or rather coincide, at the World Championships.

*-Oshawa plays Thursday and Saturday. I’m just saying**.
**-Though I guess the “sign a college kid for a day” version of the emergency rule is almost as good as the “call a kid up from junior” version.