Bridgeport Islanders Announce Season-Opening Roster
Oct 13, 2022The Bridgeport Islanders, American Hockey League affiliate of the New York Islanders, have announced the team's season-opening roster for its 22nd AHL campaign. The roster is comprised of 15 forwards, eight defensemen and two goaltenders.
Bridgeport begins the regular season against the Providence Bruins tonight at 7:05 p.m. inside Amica Mutual Pavilion.
Of the 25 players on the initial roster, 19 have previously worn Bridgeport’s jersey in at least one regular-season game. The roster also includes 17 players on an NHL contract with the New York Islanders and three former first-round draft picks: Cory Schneider (2004, Vancouver), Dennis Cholowski (2016, Detroit) and Simon Holmstrom (2019, Islanders).
The roster features 4,647 games of AHL experience and 1,090 games of NHL experience (11 players).
Bridgeport's season-opening roster is listed below, numerically by position.
Forwards (15)
10 Kyle MacLean
11 Hudson Fasching
12 Otto Koivula
14 Andy Andreoff
15 Simon Holmstrom
16 Aatu Raty
17 Ruslan Iskhakov
18 Erik Brown
21 Cole Bardreau
25 Chris Terry
28 William Dufour
29 Arnaud Durandeau
32 Jimmy Lambert
36 Jeff Kubiak
38 Paul Thompson
Defensemen (8)
2 Seth Helgeson
3 Samuel Bolduc
4 Dennis Cholowski
6 Vincent Sevigny
7 Grant Hutton
8 Paul LaDue
27 Parker Wotherspoon
44 Ryan MacKinnon
Goaltenders (2)
1 Jakub Skarek
35 Cory Schneider
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