Saturday, July 19, 2008

Schedule Story, Etc...

Here is my story about the 2008-09 schedule in today's Times.

Hopefully Coach Ruskowski will be a little happier about things once the season rolls around in 91 days, five hours, 14 minutes and 30 seconds (Thank you, Rapid City Rush countdown...minus 35 minutes).

In other news around the league, another tragedy has struck the CHL community as Jason Baird was involved in an accident while doing landscaping work on Thursday. Greg Rajan has more information and updates via reader comments, which thankfully imply Baird is in stable condition. Hopefully, for his sake and that of his wife and young daughter, he will be able to recover from the burns and any other injuries suffered that night.

On a lighter note, looks like Paul Fixter and Ken McRae are taking their rivalry to the OHL. If the Killer Bees had any thought in their minds about hiring former IceRays Coach McRae to take over in the Valley, those have been erased by news of his hiring by the Peterborough Petes (via Rajan). McRae and the Petes will face the Kitchener Rangers, for whom Fixter is now associate coach and assistant general manager, on October 24 and November 13.

Also headed to the OHL is former Buck and Killer Bee Nick Warriner, who has signed on as an assistant coach for the Soo Greyhounds. Brian Sandalow has more on that.

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