WILMINGTONThe line combinations are a little different today with Bruins power forward Milan Lucic absent from practice at Ristuccia Arena this morning. Instead, free-agent camp invite Jay Pandolfo is wearing a white practice jersey and skating on the top line at left wing with David Krejci and Nathan Horton.
Pandolfo had been in a line with rookies Ryan Spooner, Lane MacDermid and Jamie Tardif throughout training camp, and perhaps gets to show his worth stepping in as a veteran extra forward when called upon due to injuries or personal reasons.
Lucics wife was expecting their first child this month, so that may be the reason behind his absence. Gregory Campbell had taken Lucics place camped in front of the net on the first unit power play drills as Nathan Horton covered the slot area, Tyler Seguin worked the half-wall and Zdeno Chara and David Krejci manned the points.
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A fan was also treated medically and taken off via ambulance at the very start of practice, and it appeared they were administering CPR on the fan in the stands. Bruins players stopped practice while the fan was treated and then left the ice temporarily while the practice observer was taken off on a stretcher. Best wishes to that person, as it was a truly scary situation when a crowd of fans and medical personnel gathered round them to administer emergency treatment.
The rest of the lines and defensemen pairings are the same as theyve been at practice:
Pandolfo-Krejci-Horton
Marchand-Bergeron-Seguin
Bourque-Kelly-Peverley
Paille-Campbell-Thornton
MacDermid-Spooner-Tardif
Chara-Boychuk
Seidenberg-Hamilton
Ference-McQuaid
Bartkowski-Warsofsky
Rask
Khudobin