Regina deals defenceman Mitch Spooner to Seattle for a conditional 2012 5th round bantam pick.
Spooner had left the Pats a few weeks ago to return home and take stock of his career. So, I'm thinking the conditional part on the pick may be conditional on him deciding to play for Seattle.
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Good job to Seattle in picking up some D-Men... Pickard can't last soaking up 45 shots a night. Of course, as a Portland fan, nothing would make me happier seeing the T-Birds go down, but kudos to them addressing their problem.
You being a Portland fan wouldn't you want your rival Seattle to be decent... Does that not make your games more exciting, kind of waters down a rivalry when one team is bad.
I find that with rivalry games, you kinda throw records to the wayside. There are times when one team is significantly better than the other, but as in most games in the WHL, any team can win on any given night. Case in point.. At this moment, the Hawks are 15 points ahead of Seattle, yet out of a possible 12 points played against the T-Birds, we've only taken 5 (2-3-0-1). And to be perfectly honest, the T-Birds are our "main" rival, but my real pleasure comes from watching Hawks vs Blazer games (with a Hawk victory of course :). This comes from when I first really started following Portland in the mid-90's when both Kamloops and Portland were fighting it out for the title most years (and they always seemed to get the better of us those days) It's all in good fun though. I wish the best for all the kids in the next phase of their hockey careers.
This is true. The last few times the Hawks and Birds played in the playoffs the underdog won. It just seems that rivalry has been watered down a little. Some of it can be put on Everett becoming a team creating a new side rivalry for each team, some is the CHL's bogus rule changes. I can just remember a time when both of these teams would fill the penalty side of a stat sheet up, and put on some wildly entertaining games. Those games used to be sold out weeks ahead. I dunno maybe I just think that both of them competing for something would actually bring that edge back.
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