The Komets announced Thursday that three more players have been added to the preseason roster with 40 days remaining until camp opens on the 60th anniversary season of Komet Hockey.
Added were goaltender Kevin Beech, right winger Bobby Chaumont and rookie forward Eric Yngwe.
Beech, who turns 25 this month, has appeared the past four seasons in the CHL. The netminder was a sixth-round draft choice by Tampa Bay in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft and made his pro debut with Springfield posting a 3.13 goals-against average in six games at the end of the 2006-07 AHL season. Beech will be entering his fifth full season as a pro. He has appeared the past four seasons in the CHL serving stints with Laredo, Youngstown, Mississippi, Corpus Christi and, last year, Texas and Wichita. The Brantford, Ontario native has an overall CHL goals-against average of 2.71 and a save percentage of .901 during his four-year CHL career.
Chaumont, 26, will be entering his sixth pro season and fourth in the CHL. The right winger skated CHL stints with Laredo (2006-07) and Mississippi (2008-09, 2009-10) before electing to travel to Europe last season and appearing in 54 games with Braehead posting a team fourth-best 53 points (22 goals, 31 assists). During his CHL career, Chaumont has registered 75 goals and 159 points in 177 games.
Yngwe, 23, hails from Sweden and will be looking to start his pro career with the Komets. The 6-foot, 3-inch, 212-pound forward was a prospect at the Komets' tryout camp at the World Hockey Centre in Toronto this past summer attended by Komet head coach Al Sims. Yngwe has skated the past two seasons with Alvesta, division 2, in Sweden, accumulating 16 goals and 31 points during his two year stint of 53 games.
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If BW is going to get blasted for taking "stupid penalties"
then I will say he learned how to do that from the "leader" of the team who last year never grasped the concept that he could not hook and hold in the CHL as he was able to do in the IHL/UHL. But it isn't proper Komet fandom to comment on that, right?
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
#1 BW is not as good as his fans say he is and not as bad as those who hate him say he is.
#2 If he is your 6th-7th d-man/extra forward then you are doing fine
#3 I don't really want him back for the same reason I didn't want alot of the cup guys back. HOWEVER....he may just be ticked off enough about being left off the roster last year to play with a chip on his shoulder.
#4 Why does this even matter? Has Warner said anything about coming to camp?
#5 Who will be the next whipping boy? Townsend, Kiyaga and Warner are all gone. I wonder who is going to step up and put the target on his chest now?
Funny. I seemed to remember BW taking stupid penalties the first half of last year before the "Leader" ever rejoined the team. But thats not the only thing he is less than average for. Lazy passes, being out of position 80% percent of the time......and on and on. And being a sports fan I have a right to have a whipping boy on the teams I cheer for, Komets or otherwise. We have our favorites and we have our targets. Its called being a fan.
Is that what it is called?