The Islanders announced this afternoon that they’re suspending Anton Klementyev for refusing an assignment to Idaho (ECHL). Brent Thompson said they wanted him to go down and play a lot, and he declined. Not sure where he is, what’s next (we’ll presumably be keeping an eye on Russia) or much further at the moment.
Without him or Dylan Reese, Benn Olson goes back in on defense. After a little while with some extra bodies, the Sound Tigers are back to dressing their only healthy 18 skaters tonight after Brett Gallant suffered an injury in practice up here this week; Thompson said it wasn’t to the head, but wasn’t more specific.
So it’s DiBenedetto, Gillies (who have been skating), Colliton, Langkow, Marcinko (who’s continuing to recover well) and now Gallant out injured.
BRIDGEPORT
F: Haddad-Frischmon (A)-Riley
McNeely-Cizikas-Rakhshani
Haley (A)-Romano-Backman
Howes-Mouillierat-Aubin
D: de Haan-Wishart (A)
Donovan-Oleksy
Olson-Ness
G: Poulin
Riopel
PORTLAND
F: Trotter-Miele-MacLean
Duncan-Hextall-Watkins (A)
Hollweg (A)-Werek-Rome
Bloodoff-Szwarz-Hoffman
D: Summers-Oystrick
Arsene (C)-Stone
Eckford-Goncharov
G: McElhinney
Pogge
R: R. Fraser. L: Lovett, Bathe.
Times of note: Poulin would tie Peter Mannino’s livepuck-era individual record at 1:43 at the latest (we mentioned those extra-attacker issues the other night). At 3:10, the team ties the post-lockout record. At 17:52 of the first, Poulin would tie Rick DiPietro’s individual team record. The team would need to get 4:16 into overtime with a scoreless tie to tie the overall team record.
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