The Bucks were back at the LEC this morning (along with dozens of folks getting the H1N1 vaccine), and it seems like they're pleased with the end result of their road trip to Arizona and more than willing to look past what happened in that 9-0 loss last Wednesday.
Since I never get around to posting the links from the other two games, here they are now:
Box score from Friday's 3-2 shootout win
Bryan Benway's recap
Prescott Daily Courier gamer
Audio highlights
Box score from Saturday's 4-3 win
Bryan Benway's recap
Prescott Daily Courier gamer
In the meantime, the Bucks got Darryl Smith back, and he was at practice today after apparently flying from Austin to Dallas to Laredo on Saturday upon being let go by the Manitoba Moose.
The Bucks are obviously in a bit of a tough situation when they lose a guy with Coach Ruskowski only wanting to keep 18 guys on the active roster, as was shown during the big loss in Arizona, the only game in which they had 15 skaters due to Eric Giosa joining the roster the next day.
Ruskowski said some really good things about Giosa, who he thinks is a player who can fit in really well to what he wants to do, and Giosa is excited for the opportunity to be playing in Laredo.
I spoke to the two of them after practice this morning (and after Giosa got everyone Gatorade after losing the first game of juice boy he played with the team), and I'll share more of what they had to say tomorrow.
Some things of note from this morning are that Maxime Lincourt was skating with the top line, which now consists of him, Smith and Jeff Bes and could stay that way. Igor Agarunov was also participating in practice in full, and he is expected to be in the lineup for Sunday's game.
As far as goalies go, Ruskowski by no means blames Kyle Gajewski for that 9-0 loss, but he said he'll be sticking with Jean-Philippe Levasseur in net for as long as Levasseur is feeling confident and playing well. Ruskowski revealed today that Levasseur wasn't actually sick on Wednesday; he had pulled a muscle in his back prior to making the trip but seems to be doing fine now.
Like I said earlier in the post, I will blog more tomorrow, but I'm still not feeling well and this is my last day off for a while, so I'm headed home to drink some tea and take a nap.
Before I go, though, I'd like to wish a very happy birthday to Jorge Lopez, who I believe still goes by the title of Vice President of Bench Operations. Hope you have a good one, Jorge!
1 comment:
Gajewski has to go. He has been playing terrible. He has played only one decent game and that was against Rio on the second game of the season. We've got to find a better goaltender.
I'm looking forward to Segoi (sorry for the mispell)finally showing the fans what he can do when he decides to tangle with the opponent. I hope he opens a 55 gallon barrel of whupass on Rio.
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