Projo Bruins Blog

By MARK DIVVER
Assistant Sports Editor

PROVIDENCE -- Trent Whitfield wore the captain's 'C' for the first four games of the season, but coach Rob Murray said he wanted to take a week or two before making a final decision.

Now it's official: Whitfield is the captain of this year's Providence Bruins.

Whitfield was the captain in Peoria last year, where former P-Bruin Brent Thompson is an assistant coach. "Any time I talk to Brent, and we talk a lot during the season, he couldn't say enough about Trent Whitfield and what he brings,'' Murray said.

"This guy leads by example, he's one of the hardest-working guys in practice every day,'' Murray said. "(Assistant coach) Butch (Cassidy) had him in Washington and he endorsed him right off the hop.''

Whitfield, a center, signed a two-year contract with Boston over the summer.

Murray is still in the process of deciding on assistant captains.


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Dany Sabourin will start in goal Friday night against the Lowell Devils.

Jeff Penner will play his first game of the season after recovering from a lower-body injury. Rob Kwiet (elbow) will not dress. Healthy scratches will be Brett Clouthier and Jordan Knackstedt, according to Murray.


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Familiar faces in Lowell's lineup: Former P-Bruins captain and PC defenseman Jay Leach, Ben Walter and ex-PC star Matt Taormina. Defenseman Taormina is the Devils' leading scorer with 2-3-5 in three games.


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Kevin Regan stopped 32 of 36 shots in Reading's 4-1 loss to Kalamazoo in the East Coast Hockey League opener Thursday night.

 Tags  Boston Bruins Providence Bruins

Comments

Ryan said:

Kevin Regan needs work! he is slopy in net and left 2 slip between his legs that normaly should have been covered no effort was made to put the glove benind him to check if it was lose or not.

Link | October 16, 2009 11:53 AM
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