Why you might care: If you are a loyal reader of this blog, you should perhaps not be asking this question. Former Drummondville Voltigeurs Frédéric St-Denis and Gabriel Dumont represent the "home" team Bulldogs in the arena their higher-level counterparts should have occupied for over a month and a half now and Ondrej Palat plays for Syracuse, who was Norfolk last year, and don't worry even I still can't even wrap my head around that part.
Other notables: Mark Barberio decided to lead the league's defensemen offensively last year. Wildcats' fan or not (and I have been both, in 2006 and 2010 respectively) that's interesting to know. Jean-Philippe Côté, for all you retro 00's Habs' fans, is on this team now, and makes his return to the Bell Centre tonight. Ditto for former Bulldogs J.T. Wyman and Eric Neilson. Philip-Michaël Devos and Danick Gauthier are also members of the Crunch.
Stats & stuff: Blake "Bambam" Geoffrion leads the Bulldogs with four goals, two assists this season. Brendan Gallagher, to the surprise of basically no one, leads the rookies with three goals, three assists. Dumont has two goals and one assist while St-Denis has the reverse. The latter also leads the team with a +5 (speaking of non-shockers).
Cory Conacher is 5th in league scoring with six goals and as many assists in 9 games. Palat is Mr. Assist on the team with 9, adding one goal, which is third on the Crunch and over a point per game. Barberio has fallen to 14th in league defensemen with at least 3 NHLers standing in his way. Damn that lockout!
Streaking: Syracuse is unbeaten in their last 3, including the last game over the Bulldogs, 3-0. Hamilton recently split a home-and-home with Rochester, and both games were decided by a goal. Geoffrion and Gallagher were the main stars of the 4-3 (W) scoresheet.
Updates from this game to come soon, or if you're unfortunate enough to follow me on Twitter, sooner rather than later.
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