Komets

I just talked to Colin and he's supposed to have another MRI on Friday or Monday depending on the swelling. He'll be checking for questions during the game to start stacking them up here whenever you'd like.

According to the bosses, we had nearly 1,200 hits here yesterday. Not bad for a day I was supposed to be off! LOL.

Thank you very much.

Don't forget we'll have Colin Chaulk on the blog during Wednesday night's game.

And I'm going to try to take the rest of today off, too. LOL. We'll see.

Unfortunately, there's not much new. Colin was examined this morning by team doctor Greg Sassmannshausen at Fort Wayne Orthpaedics and an MRI will be done on his leg sometime this week. The leg is healing, but this is a precautionary move, according to Komets General Manager David Franke.

Yes, there will be a test after this.

The Komets will be either the sixth or seventh seed when the playoffs start in two weeks, mostly likely sixth.

They are currently two points up on Quad Ciity for seventh and four up on Motor Ciity for eighth. The Komets cannot finish eighth because they own the tiebreaker of total wins with Motor City. They also hold the tiebreaker with Quad City.

Motor City plays Port Huron twice and Quad City plays Richmond and Flint.

As soon as it happened, Colin Chaulk knew he was in trouble
because he remembered the feeling.

Once when he was playing junior hockey in Kingston, Ontario, an opposing player slid into Chaulk's left leg to slice it with a skate around his skate boot's tongue. The same thing happened Friday night in Port
Huron, this time to the rear of his right leg, three inches above the boot and three inches below the calf.

“I just felt the heat and I knew,'' Chaulk said.

I just talked to Colin Chaulk, and he's going into Fort Wayne Ortho tomorrow and says his plan is to be ready by the playoffs. He's optimistic that the tendon is fine but wants to make sure so he can know how intense he can re-hab.

Since he's laid up on the shelf, I asked him to come on the blog on Wednesday night during the Komets' game at Missouri and have a session with us. How's that sound?

With today's point against Quad City, the Komets have 88 points and the most Richmond can get is 88, but the Komets own the tiebreaker. This is the 29th time over the last 31 seasons that the Komets have made the playoffs.

When Frank Littlejohn was traded to Quad City, all you heard on here was moaning about how the Komets should have gone out and gotten him no matter what the cost. I said that was nuts, that Littlejohn was too much of a hothead who cost his team with penalties, pointing to last year's playoff series against the Komets when he was their best player while playing for Missouri. Anybody remember that?

It's the middle of the first period today and Littlejohn already has three minor penalties.

According to Komets President Michael Franke, Colin Chaulk came home Friday night with General Manager David Franke after being discharged from the hospital and receiving several stitches. He was able to walk on his leg and he'll go to see the team doctor on Monday.

Chaulk suffered a cut on the back of his leg between the boot of his skate and the bottom part of his shin pads during Friday's game at Port Huron.

Komets coach Greg Puhalski said Colin Chaulk sliced open the back of his leg near his ankle when he fell on the skate blade of another player. He was taken to the hospital as a precautionary measure to get stitched up, and he'll be out of the lineup the rest of the weekend. The Komets don't believe the injury is going to turn out to be a major one.