Summers Re-Signs

The Bucks have announced their first re-signing of this offseason, as forward Matt Summers will be back for another season in Laredo.

Summers played 57 during the 2007-08 regular season, his rookie campaign, and scored 12 goals while tallying 23 assists for a total of 35 points. Five of his goals were game-winners.

In the postseason, he "played" 11 games, but usually only skated a shift or two in each, and still managed to score a goal.

Though he played in a majority of the Bucks' regular season contests, Summers struggled with an injury during part of the season which could have limited his productivity. In his final season with the OCN Blizzard of the MJHL (2006-07), he had 50 goals and 69 assists for 119 points.

Summers turned 22 last week, which means he is the youngest of the currently announced 2008-09 signees but also the only one with professional experience.

I will be calling Coach Ruskowski later to talk to him about this decision, but I'm not surprised because I know he liked Summers from day one. I would call Summers, too, but he doesn't have a cell phone (or at least didn't while he was here) in spite of being the only player on last season's roster from the States (Savage, Minn.).

For now, you can get more information from the Bucks' press release.