Sound Tigers snap skid, shut out Pack

Ken Appleby made 22 saves as the Bridgeport Sound Tigers defeated the Hartford Wolf Pack 4- 0 at the XL Center in Hartford on Saturday to end a sevengame winless streak.

Arnaud Durandeau had a goal and an assist for the Sound Tigers ( 4- 13- 1- 0), who had lost the previous five in regulation and hadn’t won in regulation in 11 games. Otto Koivula added two assists in Bridgeport’s first win in Hartford since Feb. 16, 2019.

Appleby signed a twoyear contract with Bridgeport’s parent club, the New York Islanders, last week after beginning this season on an AHL contract. He earned his first AHL shutout since March 22, 2019, when he was with the Manitoba Moose.

Bridgeport scored two power- play goals Saturday, ending a season- long 0for- 16 drought. Three goals came off turnovers by Hartford, which had won seven in a row.

The first came in transition, as Otto Koivula’s touch pass caromed off Hartford defender Mason Geertsen’s stick to a speeding Durandeau for a goal midway through the first.

This was the first game in 18 this season in which Bridgeport never trailed. This was oddly the first time it won in six games in which it scored first.

Dmytro Timashov scored from above the left circle on a power play 1: 02 into the second period after Durandeau forced a Hartford turnover on a clearing try. Koivula got credit for a second assist on that goal.

Bobo Carpenter scored an early- third- period powerplay goal after Tom Kuhnhackl and Cole Coskey forced a turnover. And 5: 13 into the third, Kyle MacLean kept in a Hartford clearing attempt to help set up Cole Bardreau’s teamleading eighth goal.

Rookie centerman MacLean, son of longtime NHLer John MacLean, has a point in five games in a row.

The Sound Tigers have six games remaining.