Thursday practice update; Bernier to start

Jonathan Bernier will start in goal tomorrow against Columbus, Terry Murray said after practice today. Murray said it was part of his plan for the road trip from the start. Murray also said that he would consider putting Kevin Westgarth in the lineup, but hadn’t decided for certain yet. For those who didn’t see it in the notes, last night’s second-period power-play goal is now credited to Alexei Ponikarovsky, not Dustin Brown. More notes and quotes to come…

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