Pregame: Merrimack at Providence

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Merrimack and Providence will meet tonight at Schneider Arena. The puck is set to drop at 7 p.m.

Tonight’s game will air on NESN.

Merrimack will dress predominantly the same lineup it did against UMass on Wednesday night. One exception is that Tyler Young will dress as the extra skater in place of Trevor Griebel, which means the Warriors will roll with six defensemen in this game.

It’s also expected that Zachary Borgiel will make the start in goal for the Warriors after Hugo Ollas started against UMass on Wednesday night.

Merrimack enters tonight ranked No. 5 nationally in the Pairwise. Providence checks in at No. 11 in the Pairwise rankings.

For live updates from tonight’s game, follow me on Twitter @MikeMcMahonCHN and follow the site @TheMackReports.

TV/Stream (U.S.): NESN
TV/Stream (Int’l): Stretch Live (requires a subscription)

Merrimack’s Lines

Forwards

7 Ottoville Leppanen — 21 Matt Copponi — 19 Alex Jefferies
18 Ben Brar — 13 Will Calverley — 28 Filip Forsmark
17 Mac Welsher — 10 Mark Hillier — 9 Ryan Leibold
11 Mick Messner — 16 Tristan Crozier — 12 Jordan Seyfert
14 Tyler Young

Defensemen

27 Adam Arveson — 26 Ivan Zivlak
20 Slava Demin — 2 Christian Felton
4 Mike Brown — 3 Zach Bookman

Goaltenders

29 Zachary Borgiel
1 Hugo Ollas
30 Steven Bacovsky