Couple of 'hump day' notes......
UPDATE: Prince George and Seattle have completed a minor trade this morning. The Cougars acquire the rights to 17 year old forward prospect Zac Ashdown from Seattle in exchange for a conditional 4th round pick. Ashdown was Seattle's 2nd round pick in the 2006 bantam draft and spent last year with Notre Dame of the Saskatchewan major midget league, where he was a point-a-game player. I suspect there may be some issues with getting Ashdown to commit to the WHL and that's why a good prospect got traded for just a conditional 4th round pick. If the Cougars can't get him to come play, they probably don't owe Seattle anything.
As expected, some teams have begun posting their tentative 08-09 schedules on their websites. Brandon has theirs up, as do Red Deer (link is to a Word document) and Saskatoon.
Another team has signed their 2008 first-round bantam pick.
A few months too late for him to personally enjoy it, but the Hockey Hall of Fame has posthumously inducted former WHL Commissioner Ed Chynoweth, in its Builder category.
And a couple notes from the WHL's Board of Governors meetings: Kelowna Rockets president Bruce Hamilton has been elected chairman of the league's board of governors for the next two years. The league also stated that the Warriors will remain in Moose Jaw, after the city decided yesterday to build a new rink.
And perhaps the most important news yesterday - since we pretty much already knew the Moose Jaw situation was resolved - is that the league discussed the woes of the Portland franchise and will issue a statement about the Winter Hawks today. I don't know about you but I'm very interested to hear what the league has to say about that ever-deepening mess.
And one last note, back to Moose Jaw....I read today that the average $90 per homeowner property tax increase (to pay for the rink) amounts to a 9.76 percent hike. Now, a nearly 10% tax hike is something few people are going to like, but simple math shows us that this means the average Moose Jaw homeowner was paying $920 annually in property taxes before. Some of us who live in the big cities laugh at the idea of paying that little.....
2 comments:
There are actually plenty here in MJ who pay $3000 and more on their property taxes.The problem is a $90 increase is just the beginning. A $70 million project is just too big for a city of 34,000.That's the bottom line.Most here just want a more reasonably priced facility for our Warriors.It's very feasible but not with the present city councillors.
Moose Jaw city council passed this motion by breaking the "Cities Act" then sold it to the WHL as fact. ah , WHL , we have a problem..
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