The Central Hockey League (CHL) announced today the 14 gentlemen that will serve as the league's full-time on-ice officials for the 2010-11 season.
The full-time referees for the upcoming season are Boone Bruggman, Dan Dreger, Ryan Hersey, Marc Lavoie, Jon McIsaac and Geoff Miller and the full-time linesmen are Michael Johnstone, Kai Magnussen, John Grandt, Bill McGoldrick, Chris Petrin, Cory Piche, Jon Shaw and Jean Menard.
Bruggman, Lavoie, Miller, Magnussen and Menard are all new to the CHL this season.
Opthalmologist Dr. Jon Walker of Allen County Retinal Surgeons will be the featured guest at the Oct. 11 Bethlehem men's group meeting. Dr. Walker has been on numerous medical missions, shows eye surgery videos and will discuss ways everyone can get involved with similar projects. We'll meet at 7 p.m. All males of any ages are welcome. Please consider bringing a donatoin for the food bank.
...who wishes to remain nameless,
``This will be my 37th year as an Off-Ice official. You are correct I would not throw that away. I have to much respect for the Frankes, the Komets and now the CHL. On top of all that I really enjoy doing
what I do. But you can assure your bloggers that I read your blog faithfully and I will remember those who took liberties at my exspense. I know it is all in good fun. I am getting older but my mind is still sharp. I don't get mad I just get even. Ask Burgee!''
The Komets released goaltender Tony Manning and center Ryan Potts after this afternoon's scrimmage. There's a chance both might be called on for emergency spots during the season.
Ended on a 0-0 tie as both goaltenders looked great. Nobody looked out of place at all. Just a few things I noticed: Schrock is two strides faster than everyone right now, and there's a lot of speed in this group... Matt Ward split the defense at the red line on one play and was flat out gone... Kevin Reiter came out to the halfwall to scoop up a loose puck and shoot it up ice to a forward... Brad Pawlowski has some pretty good hands on him. He's got some offensive skills, but the main thing is can he skate at this level?...
the top one is from Source One and the bottom two are from our own Melody Schmitt-Foreman
Oct. 4, 2010 - Fort Wayne, Ind. - Komets defenseman Guy Dupuis skates in conditioning drills at the end of the opening day of the Komets' training camp on Monday at Memorial Coliseum.
Photo by Chad Ryan.
So far, I'm really impressed with the conditioning everyone came into camp with. You can really tell the difference from last year.
Kevin Reiter and Derek Patrosso are here already, Craig Cescon will be in later this afternoon, Mathieu Curadeau and Kaleigh Schrock will be in tomorrow, so that's everybody from the AHL camps. The reports those guys gave to the guys who are here is that that they all thought they played well and there was nothing more they could do to make the team.
Coach Al Sims said he plans to play all the youngsters in Thursday's exhibition game with Dayton.
10 questions about the Komets
Camp schedule and full roster.
Kokudo Ice Bunnies (Japan-ALIH)
Bet they have huge crowds at Easter.
* Besides Ryan Potts, the Komets are also going to have local amateur goaltender Tony Manning the first few days of traininng camp. He'll help out until Kevin Reiter gets back from his AHL tryout on Worcester.
* Keith Rodger may not be ready to go at the start of training camp because of a bone buise in his lower back. He suffered the injury while working out, but the MRI came back negative, general manager David Franke said.
I'll be working HS football on Friday night, but I'd much rather be here
Karaoke like the 'ol 412 Club days from 10-2. North Star is a great little hangout bar with the 412 feel. Come out and sing and have a blast. I'm the fill-in guy this Friday ONLY. Stop on out!
