Scout
02-03-2009, 09:14 AM
with Gregg Drinnan
Monday, February 2, 2009
THE MacBETH REPORT: G Rob McVicar (Brandon) has signed with Hamburg (Germany DEL) for the rest of this season. McVicar started the season with Elmira (ECHL), then signed with Totempo HVIK Hvidovre (Denmark Elitserien), who filed for bankruptcy last week. In eight games with Totempo, he had a 4.13 goals-against average and a .871 save percentage. . . . F Michal Psurny (Medicine Hat/Kootenay) has been loaned out to Ústí nad Labem (Czech 1.Liga) by Zlin (Czech Extraliga) for the rest of this season. Psurny had two goals and six assists in 36 games for Zlin this season and two goals and three assists in four games during a loan assignment to Dukla Jihlava (Czech 1.Liga) earlier this season.
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The ‘new’ Portland Winter Hawks management team is a couple of days into its first crisis. It seems the price of walk-up tickets just went up. Check out a piece by Dwight Jaynes from his blog right here.
www.dwightjaynes.com/about-those-winter-hawk-ticket-prices
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The Lethbridge Hurricanes are getting D Luca Sbisa, 19, back from the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers. He is expected to play for the Hurricanes on Wednesday in Portland. He played 39 games with the Flyers, earning seven assists in 39 games. He also had 36 penalty minutes. Sbisa, from Italy, had 33 points and 63 penalty minutes in 62 games with Lethbridge last season and then added 15 points in 19 playoff games as the Hurricanes marched into the WHL’s championship final where they were swept by the Spokane Chiefs. He was taken 19th overall by the Flyers in the 2008 NHL draft. . . . Yes, this will help the Hurricanes. But you have to ask yourself what took the Flyers so long?
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Meanwhile, in Ottawa, former Kootenay Ice head coach Cory Clouston has taken over as head coach of the Senators. Craig Hargsburg wasn’t able to complete his first season as head coach before the axe fell. Curtis Hunt, who left as head coach of the Regina Pats to join the Senators as an assistant coach, also was punted, although he was offered a spot with Ottawa’s AHL affiliate in Binghamton, N.Y., which is where Clouston had been the head coach. . . . And the big question here is: How much longer can Ottawa GM Bryan Murray survive? He fired John Paddock last season, picked Hartsburg as the replacement and now has fired him.
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JUST NOTES: LW Drayson Bowman of the Spokane Chiefs is the Boston Pizza WHL player of the week. He had 10 points, including five goals, as the Chiefs went 3-0-0-0. . . . Spokane’s Dustin Tokarski is the WHL nominee as the ADT CHL goaltender of the week. He went 3-0-0-0 with two shutouts, a GAA of 0.33 and a .988 save percentage.
Scout
Monday, February 2, 2009
THE MacBETH REPORT: G Rob McVicar (Brandon) has signed with Hamburg (Germany DEL) for the rest of this season. McVicar started the season with Elmira (ECHL), then signed with Totempo HVIK Hvidovre (Denmark Elitserien), who filed for bankruptcy last week. In eight games with Totempo, he had a 4.13 goals-against average and a .871 save percentage. . . . F Michal Psurny (Medicine Hat/Kootenay) has been loaned out to Ústí nad Labem (Czech 1.Liga) by Zlin (Czech Extraliga) for the rest of this season. Psurny had two goals and six assists in 36 games for Zlin this season and two goals and three assists in four games during a loan assignment to Dukla Jihlava (Czech 1.Liga) earlier this season.
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The ‘new’ Portland Winter Hawks management team is a couple of days into its first crisis. It seems the price of walk-up tickets just went up. Check out a piece by Dwight Jaynes from his blog right here.
www.dwightjaynes.com/about-those-winter-hawk-ticket-prices
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The Lethbridge Hurricanes are getting D Luca Sbisa, 19, back from the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers. He is expected to play for the Hurricanes on Wednesday in Portland. He played 39 games with the Flyers, earning seven assists in 39 games. He also had 36 penalty minutes. Sbisa, from Italy, had 33 points and 63 penalty minutes in 62 games with Lethbridge last season and then added 15 points in 19 playoff games as the Hurricanes marched into the WHL’s championship final where they were swept by the Spokane Chiefs. He was taken 19th overall by the Flyers in the 2008 NHL draft. . . . Yes, this will help the Hurricanes. But you have to ask yourself what took the Flyers so long?
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Meanwhile, in Ottawa, former Kootenay Ice head coach Cory Clouston has taken over as head coach of the Senators. Craig Hargsburg wasn’t able to complete his first season as head coach before the axe fell. Curtis Hunt, who left as head coach of the Regina Pats to join the Senators as an assistant coach, also was punted, although he was offered a spot with Ottawa’s AHL affiliate in Binghamton, N.Y., which is where Clouston had been the head coach. . . . And the big question here is: How much longer can Ottawa GM Bryan Murray survive? He fired John Paddock last season, picked Hartsburg as the replacement and now has fired him.
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JUST NOTES: LW Drayson Bowman of the Spokane Chiefs is the Boston Pizza WHL player of the week. He had 10 points, including five goals, as the Chiefs went 3-0-0-0. . . . Spokane’s Dustin Tokarski is the WHL nominee as the ADT CHL goaltender of the week. He went 3-0-0-0 with two shutouts, a GAA of 0.33 and a .988 save percentage.
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