Another Signing

Is it just me, or does it seem like the Bucks are starting the signings a little earlier this year than last year?

Whatever the case, they announced today that they have signed rookie Drew Kivell for the upcoming season.

Kivell is a 6-foot-2, 200-pound defenseman from Lakeside, Ontario, who played five seasons of junior hockey then spent four years at Lakehead University, but his biggest claim to fame is being one of the eight finalists on the CBC reality show "Making the Cut."

The 26-year old is apparently someone Coach Ruskowski has been trying to sign for a while, so I'm guessing his scouts saw something special there.

The Bucks also announced that they have signed defenseman Cody Hamilton, one of the players acquired from the Tulsa Oilers in the Rick Kozak trade last week, to a contract today.

I'll be trying to get in touch with Ruskowski for a story to run in tomorrow's Times, but my desk is literally covered in Little League photos that wonderful people decided could not be turned in until the last day possible, so I've got my hands pretty full for the rest of the day and might not be able to blog again until tomorrow.

Until then, those of you interested can read a bit more about Kivell in the graduate profile that Lakehead published on April 29.