Scout
09-25-2007, 08:39 AM
Courtesy Alan Caldwell:
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Tuesday news
The Rockets have two defencemen - Luke Schenn and Tyler Myers - who are sure to attract a lot of interest at next June's NHL draft. The Rockets' new site has an article on them.
Speaking of the Rockets' new website, it is a nice looking site. I still have to say though, the idea of bringing your website down for a month leading up to the start of the season is not the best marketing strategy anyone ever came up with. The entire preseason, if anyone wanted any info on the Rockets, they were just SOL as far as the official website was concerned. This is not the way to do redesigns. Leave the existing site up until the new one is ready, huh?
Bad luck for Pats overager Kaspars Saulietis. After beating out Marco Insam to earn a job on the team in a three-way battle for two import spots, Saulietis suffered a separated shoulder on his first shift of the team's season opener. As a result, he will be out for three months.
One game last night, the Hitmen beating the visiting Ice 5-1 in a battle of two teams going in opposite directions to start the season. The Hitmen are now 3-0 (tied with Tri-City for first overall now) while the Ice drop to 0-3. I don't know if there's some internal disciplinary thing going on, but if not, the decision by Ice coach Mark Hollick last night to scratch two overage defencemen and dress only five blueliners for the game is open to question. When you dress only two overagers despite having four available, and only five defencemen - including only two who played full seasons in the WHL last year - and then give a 16 year old goalie his first career start behind that d-corps, and proceed to lose 5-1, I'd say your decision-making is open to question. If the scratched O/A d-men - Chad Greenan and Paul Kurceba - were being disciplined for breach of team rules or something, that's a different story, but if it was just coaches decision.....
Only one game on the sched for tonight as well and it's another battle of opposites as the 2-0 Edmonton Oil Kings make the 90 minute hop down the QE2 to Red Deer to play the 0-2 Rebels. Red Deer is still without Brandon Sutter, who remains in North Carolina with the NHL's Hurricanes. In Edmonton, meanwhile, goalie Alex Archibald is enjoying this start to the season much more than he did the start last year in Chilliwack.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Tuesday news
The Rockets have two defencemen - Luke Schenn and Tyler Myers - who are sure to attract a lot of interest at next June's NHL draft. The Rockets' new site has an article on them.
Speaking of the Rockets' new website, it is a nice looking site. I still have to say though, the idea of bringing your website down for a month leading up to the start of the season is not the best marketing strategy anyone ever came up with. The entire preseason, if anyone wanted any info on the Rockets, they were just SOL as far as the official website was concerned. This is not the way to do redesigns. Leave the existing site up until the new one is ready, huh?
Bad luck for Pats overager Kaspars Saulietis. After beating out Marco Insam to earn a job on the team in a three-way battle for two import spots, Saulietis suffered a separated shoulder on his first shift of the team's season opener. As a result, he will be out for three months.
One game last night, the Hitmen beating the visiting Ice 5-1 in a battle of two teams going in opposite directions to start the season. The Hitmen are now 3-0 (tied with Tri-City for first overall now) while the Ice drop to 0-3. I don't know if there's some internal disciplinary thing going on, but if not, the decision by Ice coach Mark Hollick last night to scratch two overage defencemen and dress only five blueliners for the game is open to question. When you dress only two overagers despite having four available, and only five defencemen - including only two who played full seasons in the WHL last year - and then give a 16 year old goalie his first career start behind that d-corps, and proceed to lose 5-1, I'd say your decision-making is open to question. If the scratched O/A d-men - Chad Greenan and Paul Kurceba - were being disciplined for breach of team rules or something, that's a different story, but if it was just coaches decision.....
Only one game on the sched for tonight as well and it's another battle of opposites as the 2-0 Edmonton Oil Kings make the 90 minute hop down the QE2 to Red Deer to play the 0-2 Rebels. Red Deer is still without Brandon Sutter, who remains in North Carolina with the NHL's Hurricanes. In Edmonton, meanwhile, goalie Alex Archibald is enjoying this start to the season much more than he did the start last year in Chilliwack.