Today's story.
He has a hairline fracture in his foot and is going on 30-day injured reserve retroactive to last Friday. More to come.
This is something that will interest you. There are two Komets vignettes on it. For more information on the project, you can go here.
Though he wasn't too happy at times during the game, Komets coach Al Sims was delighted afterward with his team's performance in a 2-1 win at Kalamazoo on Saturday night. The 4-0 Komets are the only undefeated team left in the International Hockey League.
"It was the type of game I think our team needed," Sims said. "We showed a lot of character and a lot of heart. We had to see how we could perform with the game on the line, and everybody did a great job."
Though he wasn't too happy at times during the game, Komets coach Al Sims was delighted afterward with his team's performance in a 2-1 win at Kalamazoo on Saturday night. The 4-0 Komets are the only undefeated team left in the International Hockey League.
"It was the type of game I think our team needed," Sims said. "We showed a lot of character and a lot of heart. We had to see how we could perform with the game on the line, and everybody did a great job."
The Fort Wayne Komets' familiarity with each other is blowing away the rest of the International Hockey League. Led by their returning veterans, the Komets beat the Bloomington PrairieThunder 7-4 on Friday, giving them 24 goals in three games.
"Everybody is chipping in and we're a much better team at this point than we were last year as far as scoring goes,” Komets coach Al Sims said. “Everybody is playing really well.”
Fort Wayne-native Ryan Potts is making the road trip with the Komets this weekend. No word yet on if someone else got hurt, sick or re-called. Potts is a rookie forward who is the grandson of Komets great Reggie Primeau. He works for Lincoln Financial.
... what are you doing to fill the time? How many of you are going to Bloomington or Kalamazoo? It sounds like it might be a good weekend to stay inside and get some things done around the house.
Anybody see former Danbury coach Todd Stirling got five years probation for his part in abusing the UHL salary cap? Hopefully that puts all of that to rest finally.
* Brian Boulay said today he had seven stitches in his upper lip and he's good to go this weekend. Brandon Warner will miss this weekend's games with his sprained wrist. Other than that, everyone is good to go.
For his checking from behind major on Komets defenseman Brian Boulay. He'll miss tomorrow's game against Port Huron.
Think that's enough?
Osman was named the Player of the Week and Varone the Rookie of the Week. Bloomington's Scott Fankhouser was picked as the goaltender of the week.
Can be read here.
I just found out they changed the mapping on me after I posted this. Sorry about that. You ought to be able to find it now with no problem.
So I want to know who jumped up and surprised you last night for the Komets? I really thought Brian Boulay looked good before he got conked, and I was impressed with Jay Holladay, too. Varone is scary quick and Mironovic was laying the lumber a few times.
I really thought the coliseum made a number of nice changes to the scoreboard so the ads weren't so overwhelming, and shutting the ads off during the pre-game ceremonies was a total class act. It was much more enjoyable to see than during the exhibition games.
With thanks to photographer Nic Pyle and your P.A. announcer Larry Schmitt. You can click on the pictures to get a larger view.
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Are the Komets that good, or are the Generals just that bad. The Generals were down to one goaltender tonight because Jason Spezza got hurt last night. Unfortunately for goaltender Jordan Alford, they are also down to no defensemen. What a joke. Jared Dumba is probably their best defenseman and he's a converted forward. It wouldn't have mattered if Patrick Roy was in net tonight because the Generals were over-matched and under-represented.
Wow, were those something. The Komets did a great job with the introduction of the team, the moment of silence for Rob Guinn and Hartley MacLeod, the presentation of the championship rings and the raising of the banner.
I especially liked the way the Memorial Coliseum shut down the scoreboard advertising during the ceremonies. That was a classy touch. I also liked how they stopped using the middle running script under the video and above the statistics. That was a very nice improvement.
The replays seemed to be working much better tonight than the did during the exhibition season as well.
