Sunday, December 27, 2009

Game Day No. 27

I didn't have time to go downstairs and get quotes after last night's game because of deadline concerns, which is really a shame, because Cody Hamilton's status with the team was in question and everything I heard pointed to him having walked out on the team.

Seems that really is the case, as the Bucks placed him on team suspension today retroactive to yesterday and have brought in defenseman Jay Holladay to take his place.

Holladay is at the LEC and was on the ice for warmups wearing No. 17.

I'll be sure to ask Coach Ruskowski about that situation after today's game, which pits the Bucks (13-7-6, 32 points) against the Tulsa Oilers (13-12-1, 27 points) for the first time this season.

As far as last night's 5-4 overtime loss to the Corpus Christi IceRays, you can read my story, Bryan Benway's recap, Greg Rajan's blog post and Rajan's story for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.

For more on today, you can check out Bryan Benway's preview and the Pointstreak pre-game notes.

Kris Tebbs, who suffered the overtime loss last night, will be getting his first start with the Bucks today.

Former Buck Rick Kozak, now an Oiler, is on the IR, so he won't be able to start any trouble on the ice. I did see him wondering around the concourse, though.

As usual, you can follow the game on here or on Pointstreak, watch on CHL-TV or listen on Imagen 94.1 FM... unless you're here, I guess.

1 comment:

A said...

It's never good when a player walks out on a team. In this case the team is better off without Cody Hamilton. It was apparent he didn't want to be here, playing hard whenever he wanted or not playing well at all. I'm surprised that the coach even suspended him but I'm glad he did. Finally we get to see Coach Rosco put his foot down. A lesson to be learned for the rest of the team. This team has been playing like crap for too long, things have to change.

I can't understand why this team pays players who don't want to play hard every night, just let them go play somewhere else.