Wednesday Update

I'm just leaving practice, and I won't have time to write a full blog post until later, so I just wanted to give a brief update for now.

No one is hurt - at least not enough to sit out, no one new has arrived, and practice was about an hour of drills, mostly focused on defensive coverage and crashing the net.

I forgot to mention Brent Cullaton's gold stick last night, but seeing it again from a much closer vantage point reminded me. It is quite shiny, maybe even a bit distracting. Anyone else notice that last night?

Coach Ruskowski said last night he wasn't sure which goalie he would start Thursday, and Kevin Desfosses and Pier-Olivier Pelletier got equal practice time today to help him make a decision.

Lines at practice were the same as last night, leaving Neil Trimm and Robin Richards as the two guys without a definite spot to play and the possible scratches for tomorrow.

I talked to Ruskowski, Todd Griffith and Darryl Smith after practice and will share some of their thoughts on here later and the rest in my notebook in tomorrow's paper.

UPDATE: I got caught up pulling wire stories, formatting some stuff, editing swim results and writing my story, so I wasn't able to transcribe the leftover quotes from my interviews today just yet. I'll type everything up at home, but as I do not have Internet there, that means posting them will have to wait until I get to the arena tomorrow. In case anyone was wondering, Jean-Philippe Levasseur did dress tonight but did not get any playing time. Additionally, Ruskowski was looking to get in touch with the amateur defenseman he was looking at today, and I should have an update on that situation tomorrow. He is an American player, so if Ruskowski can get him down here, there should be no paperwork problems or anything like that.