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Oct. 11, IceCaps vs Bulldogs, 7:30 PM


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The AHL season may have started a week ago but the 2013-14 Hamilton Bulldogs will take to the ice for the first time this year as they host St. John's (1-0-1), affiliate of the Jets. Hamilton has won their past two home openers.

Projected St. John's Lines:
(based on +/- data from last game)

Samson - Jaffray - Gordon

Klingberg - Mouillerat - Lunden

Schnell - Albert - O'Dell

Lowry - Cormier - Lipon

Chariot - O'Neill

Lampl - Melchiori

Kichton - Hill

Pasquale

Projected Hamilton Lines:

Andrighetto - St. Pierre - Holland

Blunden - Dumont - Leblanc

Nystrom - Duffy- Aliu

Tarnasky - Nattinen - Courtnall

Chouinard - Pateryn

Schiestel - Dietz

McIver - Nygren

Tokarski

Ellis, Fournier. Macenauer, and Quailer are healthy scratches.

Puck drop is at 7:30 PM, AM900 will have the play-by-play; click the banner below to listen. Cable 14 is also showing the game locally (in HD this year); they do stream live but only if you're a Cogeco or Rogers internet subscriber. If you are, click here for their feed.

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Some reported lines for tonight, very much on the head-scratching side if true:

Andrighetto - St-Pierre - Holland

Nystrom - Duffy - Aliu

Blunden - Dumont - Leblanc

The third line listed, looks like the 2nd line (scoring potential wise).

And will also likely be matched against the other team's top line, with 3 good defensive players there.

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Question number one: will the Dogs be as putrid as they were last year?

Not possible.

In St. Pierre they have a true number 1 AHL centre, something severly lacking last year.

Overall they have more offensive talent as well, which was non-existent last year. Injuries to Geoffrion, Palushaj, Leblanc killed 3 of the guys they were counting on for offence early in the year. Geoffrion retired, Palushaj was claimed on waivers, and Leblanc never seemed to get on track.

That shouldn't happen again where your three main weapons go down.

Yes, Christian Thomas is hurt now, but he should be back soon and should be an offensive catalyst too.

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The third line listed, looks like the 2nd line (scoring potential wise).

And will also likely be matched against the other team's top line, with 3 good defensive players there.

I'm hoping that's the case. That's a nice checking line but I want them playing above two rookies and a quasi-enforcer. I'm also a bit surprised that Andrighetto is apparently on the front line right away. That spot is likely earmarked for Thomas but that's a golden chance for him to make an immediate impact.

Question number one: will the Dogs be as putrid as they were last year?

No, they'll be better. Tokarski should be an upgrade over what Desjardins brought early last year and there is more talent on the offence. I'm skeptical they're a playoff team but they'll be more competitive for sure.

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