Bucks Sign Lincourt

The Bucks announced today that they have signed forward Maxime Lincourt for the upcoming season.

Lincourt has two seasons of pro experience and played four seasons in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (including one with the Rimouski Oceanic right after Sidney Crosby left).

He is the ninth player with professional experience to be signed, making it an even 50/50 split of rookies and non-rookies... at least until tomorrow.

There will be a story in tomorrow's Times with some quotes from Coach Ruskowski about Lincourt, who he had apparently been interested in signing prior to last season.

Two of Lincourt's YouTube offerings come from his time with the Moncton Wildcats:





And then there's one from his time with the Oceanic:



One thing Ruskowski highlighted when I spoke to him was Lincourt's goal-scoring ability, and those clips are a hint of what he can do. The last one is actually quite impressive.

Meanwhile, at the Traverse City Prospect Evaluation Tournament, the Atlanta Thrashers picked up their first win, 7-3, over the Carolina Hurricanes.

Darryl Smith did not have any points, but he did post a plus/minus ratio of plus-3 to move back in the plus side for the tournament.

The tourney concludes tomorrow.