Roster moves

Two roster moves to mention....first, Saskatoon has given up on 2006 first round bantam pick Mitch Berg. They have released the 17 year old defenceman, pending a reassignment to the SJHL. Berg's lack of footspeed did him in at the WHL level; perhaps he could be back in another year if he shows some improvement in that area.

Second, and most significantly, Lethbridge has been given a huge gift with the return of overage forward Mitch Fadden. Fadden is a serious candidate to win the WHL scoring title unless he has missed too many games to catch the leaders already.

But the question that needs to be answered now is whether Fadden will take his run at the scoring title with Lethbridge, or somewhere else. At the end of last season, 'Canes G.M. Roy Stasiuk suggested in an interview that it might be time for Fadden to move on and make way for younger players like Carter Ashton, similar to how the 'Canes moved out Colton Yellow Horn two years ago to make room for Fadden's emergence, etc. So we'll see now whether that's still Stasiuk's plan or whether Fadden will stick around in the 'bridge. The Hurricanes now have four overagers (forward Adam Chorneyko and defencemen Ben Wright and Mitch Versteeg are the other three) so one of them has to be moved out by next Thursday for sure.

No more posts over the weekend, until Tuesday....I'm off to watch hockey and eat turkey. Might take in tonight's Lethbridge-Calgary game, should be a gooder, especially if Fadden is back.