It looks like they are finally (FINALLY!!!!) about to break ground on the new Moose Jaw Multiplex arena. Moose Jaw city council voted to approve the final design of the building, and construction is now expected to start in July, after demolition of the existing buildings on the site is completed this month. Completion is set for 2011, so presumably the team will be able to play the 2011-12 season in the new building. So, two more years in the Crushed Can. It would only have to be one more year if they had gotten this far last summer like the league told them to, but oh well. More on the story, along with an artist's rendition of the new rink, at this link.
Hockey Canada wrapped up their summer goalie camp last weekend as well. As a result of that camp, four goalies have been named to the World Junior summer camp in August. The only WHLer in the foursome is the Hitmen's Martin Jones. Jake Allen and Olivier Bellavance-Roy of the QMJHL and Matt Hackett from the OHL are the other three. Adam Brown of the Rockets and Jamie Tucker of the Giants were among the goalies who attended but who were not invited to the WJC camp.
The WHL wrapped up their summer meetings today. The only notable rule change for next year is that they're going to use video replay full-time in the regular season starting with next season. I guess they were happy with the results of replay from the playoffs last season. I think this is one of those no-brainer decisions myself. It works very well in the NHL, and the technology required is now so reasonable in price that even the poor WHL franchises can afford to do this properly now.
Dale Derkatch has a new job after being fired as coach of the Pats last month. He has been hired as the new Director of Player Personnel for the Prince Albert Raiders, replacing head scout Dave O'Brien, who was not retained after last season.
And lastly, I got a tidbit passed my way about the Everett-Medicine Hat trade last year which saw Shayne Brown swapped for Tyler Kieffer. As we all know, Kieffer never reported to the Hat and so this is a pretty lopsided trade right now. It turns out that if Kieffer does not report to the Tigers in 2009-10, the Tigers get Everett's 2010 4th round bantam pick as compensation for Brown.
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Adam Morrison of Saskatoon also was at the camp and is to be eligible for the World Juniors.
When was Morrison invited? His name does not appear on the original list of 14 goalies who were invited:
http://www.hockeycanada.ca/index.php/ci_id/63191/la_id/1.htm
Nevermind....I see the release now where Morrison was named as an injury replacement for JP Anderson in the U-18 portion of the camp.
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