Lance Galbraith has been activated to play in tonight's game. Davie Frawley has been placed on team suspension to free up a roster spot. Rookie Jamie Milam will play in all three games this weekend.
Lance Galbraith has been activated to play in tonight's game. Davie Frawley has been placed on team suspension to free up a roster spot. Rookie Jamie Milam will play in all three games this weekend.
Danbury has pulled within two points of Rockford. Each has six games remaining:
Danbury -- at Elmira, at Richmond, Adirondack, at Roanoke, at Roanoke.
Rockford -- Quad City, at Muskegon, Muskegon, Flint and Muskegon.
Komets are at Port Huron, at Flint, at Quad City, at Missouri, home to Muskegon and Kalmazoo.
Motor City is at Kalamazoo, at Quad City, Kalamazoo, at Port Huron and Port Huron
Quad City is at Rockford, Motor City, Fort Wayne, Richmond and at Flint
Richmond is Adirondack, Danbury, at Elmira, at Quad City and at Missouri.
Just found out the Komets have decided not to play him tonight.
Also, today's story:
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/14269303.htm
It's amazing what those guys can do.
I responded to this below, but figured I'd pull it out for a topic.
It's pretty easy to figure out in the AHL finances, or at least to be in the ballpark within a few hundred thousand dollars.
Komets goaltender Kevin St. Pierre was named the United Hockey League's Goaltender of the month for March today. St. Pierre went 9-4-0 with a 1.85 goals against average and .927 save percentage during the month, along with three shutouts.
He was also named the goaltender of the month for December. He has a 31-16-2 record overall and leads the UHL with a .922 save percentage while ranking second with a 2.25 goals against average.
I just found out Lance Galbraith made the trip to Quad City. Not sure if he's going to play, but I'm making a guess that he might or why go on a there-and-back road trip? Of course he might have gone along so he can get more treatment from Shawn Dundon. He has 288 career games, so he's in no trouble of passing 300 to earn veteran status for next season.
Komets General Manager David Franke said a decision on Galbraith's status won't be made until after the morning skate.
Just for you, Hit Somebody! I tried to ask Ryan Jorde all the questions of yours that I could remember.
Blake Sebring: What's the fighting etiquette out there?
Ryan Jorde: I think that's just the fights I've had where I've beat on some guys pretty good and my reputation from the “A'' and stuff. I don't think too many guys want to mess with me. Actually it works in my favor anyways because then they don't run around and I can actually worry about playing then.
BS: How often do you ask a guy to go?
There's 10:24 left in the second and the Komets have 19 shots and four goals and Flint has two shots. Things are back to normal. Some pretty goals by the Komets.
It also helps that Rockford and Quad City lost, Adirondack is losing and Motor City is tied.
The Komets are up 2-1 after the first period but this is a much different game than they played against Flint on Friday. They aren't going to the net nearly as aggressively, and they've already given up some quality scoring chances to the Generals. Fort Wayne has out-shot the Generals 15-6, but a lot of those were from the perimeter. The Komets also aren't hitting too well and might be getting sucked into the Generals' road game style.
Or maybe it's just because they are 4-8-1 on Sundays.
A few things I thought you might be interested in:
* Kevin St. Pierre has now tied Kalamazoo's Joel Martin for the top goals against average in the UHL at 2.23.
* Mark Lindsay fought for the second game in a row. ``Good for Mark,'' Komets coach Greg Puhalski said. ``He has played aggressively and generally the second half of the year he has played real solid and he has improved. He's a hard-working man.''
Considering he's only 21, that's saying something.
Justin and I were talking in the press box tonight about Kevin St. Pierre's playing time of late. His thought was that Kevin Kurk needs some playing time, and my thought is that as long as Frenchy wants to play he plays. Justin wonders what happens if Frenchy gets hurt. My thought is they are dead at that point anyway so why worry about it?
There are about two weeks and 10 games remaining in the regular season, and I'm wondering who you think should get the annual awards:
MVP
Best defenseman
Unsung hero
Defensive forward
Mr. Hustle
Rookie of the year
Most improved player
* The Komets are 8-15-0 this season against the top four teams in the UHL, Muskegon, Rockford, Kalamazoo and Danbury, but they are 6-3 in their last nine games against the elite teams. That means they are 30-9-4 against everyone else.
* Since the Komets started the season 5-11-2, they've gone 33-13-2. Here's how that compares with the elite teams in the UHL: Danbury 31-8-9, Muskegon 31-12-6, Kalamazoo 31-11-6 and Rockford 29-12-6.
According to the UHL office, IceHogs coach Steve Martinson will be at tonight's game, and will serve his one-game suspension at Rockford's next home game on April 7.
The IceHogs' Robin Big Snake will not play tonight because of a suspension from a game March 24 in Danbury.
Which leads to today's story:
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/14213409.htm
See you at the game.
Mark Smith is back in town and was at practice today visiting with the guys. Because of UHL rules, he's not allowed to play in the UHL this season or next since he left to play in Europe.
Here's one on John Torchetti:
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/14204581.htm
Here's one on how the UHL supervises officials:
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/sports/hockey/uhl/14204587.htm
Got some other very interesting arcticles coming up Wednesday and Friday as well. Some of you will be shocked at Friday's story.
He skated at practice for the second time and said he believes he's ahead of schedule. He's hoping to skate in at the least the last four games of the regular season, but he said the best way for the boys to keep him on the sidelines was to keep winning.
He's definitely back on track as far as raising the volume level in the locker room.
Lance said he might be back even earlier than that since there are 11 games left in the regular season and he has played 288 in his career. He needs to finish the season at 299 games play to not qualify as a veteran player next season.
This is a photo by Linda Leslie taken from her site kometsphotos.com.
She also took the picture of the referees in today's paper.
The Komets have 11 games remaining, including six on the road. Wednesday's game is their second of four out of five at home followed by five in a row on the road. They have three games — all at home — against Rockford, Muskegon and Kalamazoo, the top three teams in the league. They have six games overall against teams that are in the playoff race, including two on the road at Quad City.
* Molly McMaster received a misconduct penalty while playing for Roanoke Valley against Elmira on Sunday. We'll see if she's assessed the automatic $50 fine since she was playing on a volunteer basis to promote colon cancer awareness.
