I went to practice this morning but will not have a story in tomorrow's paper, so I'll be sure to share the quotes I got from Coach Ruskowski and Lance Monych, one of the stars from this weekend, ASAP.
For now, I have some links and notes from other sources.
First of all, there's the game story from Friday's 6-1 win over the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs from the Shreveport Times. Sorry I forgot to link to that sooner.
Then there's Brian Sandalow's comprehensive blog post about Saturday's 5-3 win over the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees. He has also updated his rankings. Yes, the Bucks did move up on the list.
For the more obscure information and some audio clips, you can visit Bryan Benway's blog.
He has his own synopsis of Friday's win and audio highlights from that game, as well as a synopsis and audio highlights from Saturday.
Goaltender Jean-Philippe Levasseur was not in practice this morning due to the moving process Benway noted in the latter of those blog posts, while captain Adam Rivet and forward Igor Agarunov missed for other reasons.
As we know, Rivet had a bit of an injury scare early in Saturday's game, but everyone seems to think he'll play this weekend. Not sure what's going on with Agarunov, but I was told there will be an update on him tomorrow.
Monych did not win the Player of the Week honors Benway nominated him for, but he did have a stellar start to his second stint in Laredo with two goals, three assists and a plus/minus of plus-4 over the weekend.
The league opted to name Amarillo Gorillas forward Joe Guenther the Player of the Week for his seven-point performance. He and teammate Anthony Battaglia were the only two players to finish the weekend with more points than Monych and linemate Jeff Bes... and another Gorilla, David Nimmo.
Of course, it should be noted that the Gorillas have played one more game than the Bucks already at this point.
The Gorillas, who are the only other undefeated team in the Southern Conference, also nabbed honors in net, as Mike Brown was named the first Goaltender of the Week for the season.
Though they were left out of the weekly honors, the Bucks were mentioned in the first edition of "Shots from the Point" for the season with the following note:
La-Road-O Off to Impressive Start
A year ago, the Laredo Bucks were sitting an un-impressive 11-14-3 on the road with a couple weeks of the regular season remaining but they rebounded to win four straight on the road to finish out the regular season and have since carried that over to the 2009-10 season winning two straight to start the season. The Bucks won convincingly on Friday beating the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs 6-1 and then on Saturday topping the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees 5-3. The Bucks will go for their seventh straight road win on Friday in Corpus Christi.
Impressive start indeed. For full standings, you can visit Pointstreak. We are using a new computer system here, and it doesn't seem to like the CHL agate very much, so I'm working on getting that fixed to get the standings in the paper sometime soon.
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As for Sandalow rankings, I couldn't see how he ranked the bucks at 5 or 7 just below CC and Rio. As usual they always underestimate Roscoe's team. Towards the begining of the off season when Roscoe was bringing in unknown rookies, I had some doubts also. When he signed Jared Mohr, Trimm and Monych I knew we were going to be better than a 5 or 7. Too bad that Brian Sandalow didn't see it that way. Anyway I still respect him because he's just like Rajan in CC they call it as they see it. They're good beat writers.
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