I was not able to do much of anything online yesterday due to the great BlackBerry blackout of 2009, so I'm sorry for the lack of posts about last night's game.
As you probably know by now, the Bucks suffered a 6-5 shootout loss to the Missouri Mavericks to fall to 1-2-1 as they closed out their season-high four-game road trip.
As the headline on Bryan Benway's recap points out, the bright side of the loss is that the Bucks got a point, moving them back into third place in the Southern Conference standings with a 13-7-5 (31 points) record.
While they are tied with the Texas Brahmas (14-10-3) as far as the 31 points go, the Bucks have only played 25 games to the Brahmas' 27, so they're ahead of them for now.
Another bright side is the fact that the Bucks actually scored goals last night. Yes, they allowed just as many as they got on the board themselves, but that was their first five-plus-goal game since that infamous 6-1 win over the Odessa Jackalopes on Dec. 5.
Lance Monych was responsible for a lot of that, scoring the Bucks' first hat trick of the season in the losing effort.
In the shootout, Monych's efforts were just as futile as those of his teammates, as for the third time this season, all five (or more) Bucks shooters were held off the board.
Kyle Gajewski suffered the OTL, falling to 3-4-2 on the season.
Now the Bucks are headed home, and they will play two at the LEC this weekend, so my schedule (and subsequent blogging) should get back to normal.
I'll be calling Coach Ruskowski tomorrow because it's either that or Christmas day itself, so I should have some leftover quotes to share soon enough.
Meanwhile, in other CHL news, it was announced today that the head coach for the CHL All-Star team that will take on the South Texas All-Stars will be Colorado Eagles Kevin McClelland, while Ruskowski will be HC for the South Texas team with the Corpus Christi IceRays' Brent Hughes and Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees' Chris Brooks assisting.
There should be plenty of other All-Star announcements in the coming weeks.
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