Projo Bruins Blog

By MARK DIVVER
Assistant Sports Editor

PROVIDENCE -- Former Harvard captain Jimmy Fraser has been recalled from Reading and will be in the P-Bruins lineup tonight in Manchester.

Fraser, 22, was a late cut in Providence's training camp. Not known as a scorer, the 5'11'', 185-pound center had 15-39-54 totals in 118 career games at Harvard.

"I'm not necessarily looking for him to contribute offensively very much,'' said coach Rob Murray. "That's not necessarily his game. But he skates well enough and he gets himself in position, hopefully he can help in that aspect.

"He gives me another centerman. We've had three natural centermen in (Drew) Larman, (Jamie) Arniel and (Zach) Hamill. Somewhere along the line you're going to get a guy in the penalty box or hurt, and then there really wasn't another potential centerman in the lineup,'' said Murray.

Before college, Fraser was the captain of the U.S. National Development Team's U-17 and U-18 squads that featured current NHL stars such as Phil Kessel, Jack Johnson, Peter Mueller and Eric Johnson.

Fraser flew to Providence this morning after playing Thursday night in Reading's 2-2 tie with Toledo. He has an assist in 6 games with Reading and is minus-5.


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Dany Sabourin will start in goal tonight and Matt Dalton will start on Saturday in Hartford.

"We'll see about Sunday,'' Murray said.


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Murray said he had not decided on his lines for tonight. Jeff LoVecchio, who was sick for most of the week, will play tonight, but might not dress for all three games this weekend.

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