Second-year professional Craig Cunningham surpassed his rookie season total of 20 goals with the icebreaker and later a power-play conversion that nudged the Providence Bruins past the Bridgeport Sound Tigers, 3-1, Friday night.
The win gives the Baby Bs the best winning percentage in the AHL’s Eastern Conference (.659) going into Saturday’s action. They trail only the Syracuse Crunch by a single point with a game in hand.
Perhaps more critically, it puts Providence in a realistic position to cement a long-awaited Calder Cup playoff berth between now and its next home game.
The P-Bruins have already consumed 34 of their 38 dates at the Dunkin Donuts Center, where they are an irreproachable 22-9-3. The next two-plus weekends will pose a measuring pole in the climax of the regular season as they play the next seven contests on the road.
Through their first 29 games on enemy ice, the Bruins are a less sparkling, but still decent 17-10-2, with a cumulative 77-77 scoring differential.
Lately, they have gone 8-1-2 in their last 11 away games dating back to the final weekend of January. But they are now at a point whe ...
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