Komets

Fort Wayne area native Brandon Warner has agreed to terms for a second season with the Komets and will carry his rookie status over to the 2008-09 campaign. Warner, 25, skated his first pro season last year scoring six goals and 13 assists for 19 points in 59 games. Warner appeared in all 13 playoff games enroute to the IHL Turner Cup championship. The defenseman is a native of Huntertown, Indiana, and graduated from Carroll High School.

The 2008 Fort Wayne Komets golf outing will be held Oct. 4 at Deer Track Golf Course. Registration is open to the first 36 teams and starts at 11:30 a.m. with lunch. A shotgun Florida scramble format will start at 1 p.m. followed by a dinner. The cost is $300 per team and includes greens fees, two carts per team, range balls, meals, beverages, tax and gratuity. For more information, call Josh Testin at 471-8432 or email to josh@komets.com.

He was named GM of the AHL's Norfolk Admirals today.

The Komets announced Monday that winger David Hukalo has agreed to terms and will return to the Komet lineup for 2008-09.

Hukalo, celebrating his 30th birthday today, will be entering his sixth pro season and fifth with the Komets. The left winger started his pro career in 2003-04 skating 40 games with the Kalamazoo Wings in the United Hockey League. He appeared in 11 games with the Wings at the start of the 2004-05 season before being traded to Fort Wayne.

Muskegon Fury forward Jason Baird was critically injured in a landscaping accident Thursday near Youngstown.

Details of the accident were not immediately available.

``Everybody in the Muskegon Fury family is shocked by this news,” Fury coach Bruce Ramsay said. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Jason and his family. If there's anything we can do as an organization, we will do it.”

Check Saturday's edition of the Muskegon Chronicle for more information on this story.

Komets General Manager David Franke said there could be a few more signings announced next week, and that he believes forward David Hukalo will re-sign for next season.

"I'm almost 100 percent sure he's going to sign back here," Franke said. "We have one more time to meet, and I think that will finalize things. I'm real confident he's going to be back here."

He's also meeting today with goaltender Kevin Reiter, though Reiter told me he's going to be patient this summer and find the best deal. Who can blame him?

It went well. Tuesday was an unbelievably long day but Drs. Yahonda and Wright and their staff brought him through OK, thank the Lord. He's still in ICU, but things are looking up. His biggest complaint so far today is that he wanted the TV on and the remote, so we were all encouraged! LOL. Thanks again for all the prayers and well wishes.

Good to hear the Komets were able to re-sign Guy and Booooouuuucchhhhhh!

Visitation and services for Bloomington PrairieThunder defenseman Rob Guinn will be Wednesday, July 16, at Grandon Funeral and Cremation Care in Ames, Iowa.

The Komets announced Tuesday that four players have been added to the 2008-09 roster. Inked to agreements for the upcoming season are the IHL's 2007-08 top defenseman Guy Dupuis and leading goaltender Nick Boucher. In addition, the Komets signed right winger Brad MacMillan and rookie defenseman Danko Mironovic.