CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island -- The first period of the Stars intrasquad scrimmage is in the books. Team Black leads Team White 2-0.
Jamie Benn and Steve Ott scored the goals. Benn beat Andrew Raycroft 8:13 into the game with a shot from close range. Fabian Brunnstrom and Ott had the assists. Ott scored later in the period on a penalty shot after he got pulled down behind the net by Trevor Ludwig. They apparently aren't doing power plays for the scrimmage.
Kari Lehtonen looked sharp in goal for Team White, stopping all 12 shots he faced. He stopped Tom Wandell from point blank range about one minute into the game and then had nice saves on Krys Barch, Aaron Gagnon and Brian Sutherby in the period.
Wandell got knocked out of the scrimmage early after he was hit into the boards by Mark Fistric. Wandell headed off to the locker room and hasn't returned to the ice. I'll try to get an update on his status after the game. Mathieu Tousginant took his place centering Sutherby and Adam Burish.
Hits of the period belonged to Barch, who nailed Philip Larsen twice in the period.
Here were the lineups today.
Team White
Morrow-Ribeiro-Cheechoo
Sutherby-Wandell-Burish
Barch-Petersen-Glennie
Tousignant-Gagnon-Backman/Rallo
Daley-Robidas
Skrastins-Blindenbacher
Ludwig-Woywitka/Coyle
Krahn/Raycroft
Team Black
Neal-Richards-Eriksson
Brunnstrom-Ott-Benn
Vincour-Morin-Segal
Wathier-Roman-Sceviour/Gazdic
Grossman-Niskanen
Fistric-Fortunus
Lukowich-Larsen/Monast
Lehtonen/Bachman