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It looks better in person, promise

The banner is hung -- same design, new colors, to the right of the 2002 ones -- as is one honoring team doctor Ken Dressler, between the Canadian flag and the Yale banner; he'll also be honored on-ice before the game. The ribbon board isn't complete yet, but the ad boards that were at that level -- at the bottom of the suites, hanging over the lower bowl -- have been moved up to the top wall, next to the scoreboards on either side of the rink.

More interesting is on the ice, where it appears Nathan McIver's debut comes at the expense of Matt Donovan. Presume we'll hear more about that after the game, though I don't think it's injury-related. He was on for two of the three goals yesterday as well as the play that turned into the penalty shot.

Arriving in town for Bridgeport's home opener are the Providence Bruins. Had thought Nilsson might be the man tonight, but Poulin led them onto the ice. One to scratch each way, though Cantin and Trotman looked to be the ones.

BRIDGEPORT
F: Niederreiter-Cizikas-McDonald (A)
Ullstrom-Sundstrom-Persson
DeFazio-Nelson-Kabanov
Gallant-Watkins-Riley
D: de Haan-Wishart (A)
Ness-Landry
McIver-Hamonic (A)
(Cantin-scratch)
G: Poulin
Nilsson

PROVIDENCE
F: Caron-Camper-Bourque
MacDermid (A)-Whitfield (C)-Knight
Sauve-Spooner-Tardif
Florek-Hanson-Cunningham
D: Krug-Cohen
Bartkowski-Miller
Exelby (A)-Warsofsky
(Trotman-scratch)
G: Hutchinson
Svedberg

R: R. Fraser. L: Colby, Galvin.

Ryan Fraser returns -- and returns with his wife and 6-month-old son.

It strikes me way too belatedly that Webster Bank's colors would've fit much better with the original colors. Oh well.