Semifinal Game Day No. 3

Thanks to some very strong antibiotics, I am at Laredo Energy Arena for Game 3 of the Southern Conference Semifinal series between the Bucks and the Allen Americans tonight.

The series is tied 1-1 heading into tonight's matchup.

Players just skated onto the ice for warmups, and, as expected, Pier-Olivier Pelletier and Chris Whitley are the starting goaltenders.

Pelletier is wearing some new plain white pads that I suppose he may have debuted in Allen over the weekend.

Brent Cullaton is on the ice for warmups and will play in tonight's game, as promised.

I'll have to wait until we get lineup cards to see who tonight's scratch is for the Bucks.

You can get more info on tonight's game from Bryan Benway's press release and the Pointstreak pre-game notes.

The Bucks will also be hosting a charity event during tonight's game.

In other news, the Anaheim Ducks finally took Jean-Philippe Levassuer away from the Springfield Falcons, but not to send him back to the Bucks, as he will be with the NHL franchise in place of the injured Jonas Hiller.

The story is front-page news on the Ducks' site.

It isn't often that a player starts a season with a CHL team and ends up in the NHL later in the same campaign, so good for him.

I follow most NHL games anyway, so I'll be sure to note it on here if Levassuer gets a start while he's with the Ducks.

Back to the Bucks, you can follow tonight's game here or on Pointstreak, watch on CHL-TV or listen on Imagen 94.1 FM.

UPDATE: Robin Richards is tonight's scratch.