Apr 12, 2022
The Bridgeport Islanders (29-28-7-4, .507) won two of their three games last weekend to stay near the cutoff and keep pace in the Atlantic Division’s ultra-tight playoff fight. The race to make the postseason, which has turned into an all-out sprint, features just four more regular-season games for Bridgeport, fewest of any team in the American Hockey League. The seventh-place Islanders are on the outside looking in by just .008 percentage points.
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Bridgeport’s hottest player lately has been leading scorer Chris Terry. The veteran forward, who celebrated his 33rd birthday on Thursday, scored three times and had four points over the weekend, including two goals on Friday in a 3-2 victory against the Providence Bruins at Total Mortgage Arena. Terry’s second goal broke a 2-2 tie with just 24.7 seconds left in regulation, capping a come-from-behind win. Otto Koivula added one goal and Simon Holmstrom recorded two assists, while Cory Schneider (12-10-4) made 27 saves. Bridgeport went 2-for-3 on the power play and 4-for-4 on the penalty kill.
The Bruins got revenge on Saturday with a 6-2 win in the rematch at Dunkin’ Donuts Center in Rhode Island. Terry and Felix Bibeau both scored for the Islanders, while Jakub Skarek (16-14-4) turned aside 29 shots. Terry’s power-play tally just 4:08 into the contest extended his goal-scoring streak to six games, second-longest in the AHL this season. Bridgeport ended its 12-game season series with the Bruins at 6-4-0-2.
Back in Bridgeport on Sunday, Kyle MacLean’s spectacular effort on a shorthanded goal in the final two minutes proved to be the difference in a 4-2 win against the Lehigh Valley Phantoms at Total Mortgage Arena. Schneider remained solid with 42 saves, two shy of his AHL career high, while Andy Andreoff, Austin Czarnik and Simon Holmstrom also scored a goal.
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