Utica Comets vs Manchester Monarchs (Verizon Wireless Arena)
Game Time: 7:00 PM Eastern, 4:00 PM Pacific
Web: AHLLive.com
Projected Lineups:
Manchester Monarchs
Mersch-Weal-O’Neill
Kempe-Shore-O’Brien
Van der Gulik-Dowd-Backman
Bissonnette-Crescenzi-Auger
Bodnarchuk-LoVerde
Gravel-Miller
Forbort-Ebert
Bartosak
(Mastalerz)
Injured: Schultz; Berube Scratched: Raine, Horvat, Gratton
Utica Comets:
Conacher-O’Reilly-Grenier
Baertschi-Friesen-Virtanen
Gaunce-Hamilton-Zalewski
Shinkaruk-Acton-DeFazio
Corrado-Biega
Andersson-Sanguinetti
Huskins-Clendening
Markstrom
- JF Berube did not participate in the morning skate and Patrik Bartosak led the team on the ice for pre-game warm ups, so he’s your start. Steve Mastalerz is your backup
- Brian O’Neill and Jeff Schultz were also held out of the morning skate, but O’Neill actually will be in for tonight’s game.
- Nick Ebert is going to replace Kevin Raine for the injured Jeff Schultz.
- Adrian Kempe scored twice last game and his line was about the only bright spot in an otherwise poor effort from the rest of the road team (goalies excluded).
- Both teams had a day off yesterday and will play back-to-back tonight and tomorrow so hopefully the Monarchs are able to close out the series and they can return to ManchVegas victorious.