Pre-game vs. Hershey 11/24

Greetings from Glens Falls Civic Center, where the Adirondack Phantoms (8-8) and Hershey Bears (6-9-1) are on the ice for warm-ups. After last night's win over Norfolk, Adirondack is now searching for its fourth straight home win. Getting it would push the Phantoms above the .500 mark for the first time since opening night. The Bears, meanwhile, enter tonight's game having lost five of their last six. They've been idle since Wednesday, when they lost 4-0 to archrival Wilkes-Barre/Scranton.

Full lines below, as always, but first some links.

Mike Ashmore, who covered last night's Trenton Titans game for our Journal Register Company brethren, The Trentonian, tweeted this picture of Andrew Johnston earlier today. Johnston, a rookie center who started the season with the Phantoms, was boarded late in Trenton's win over Evansville last night. This ugly cut is apparently the aftermath. EDIT: Trenton's Twitter feed reports he's starting tonight. He's a hockey player.

Adirondack's Brayden Schenn, Sean Couturier and Eric Wellwood get name-dropped in this Yahoo! Sports story about NHL players spending the lockout in the AHL.

If you were hoping to see Hockey Hall of Famer Adam Oates in Glens Falls tonight, you're out of luck. The former Adirondack Red Wing, who started the season as Hershey's co-coach with Mark French, has returned to NHL Washington.

Scott Munroe vs. Dany Sabourin. Munroe's third straight start. Matt Ford in for Shane Harper. That's the only change from Friday. Former Phantom Jon Kalinski (injury) is out for Hershey, but other former Phantoms Matt Clackson and Kevin Marshall are in the line-up. More after the game.

HERSHEY
F: Kane-Potulny-Mitchell
DiSalvitore-Taffe-Pope
Snyer-Hamill-Beaudoin
Berry-Carman-Clackson
D: Kundratek-Marshall
Oleksy-Orlov
Stafford-Schilling
G: Sabourin
Holtby

ADIRONDACK
F: Zolnierczyk-Couturier-Akeson
McGinn-Schenn-Ford
Rinaldo-Bordson-Holmstrom
Brown-Roe-Testwuide
D: Syvret-Gustafsson
Bourdon-Manning
Lauridsen-Eddy
G: Munroe
Heeter

Referees: Chris Ciamaga, Ryan Hersey. Linesmen: Steeve Lemay, Frank Murphy.