Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Two notes

Two notes today.....one which you've probably already heard, the Saskatoon Blades getting a lot bigger and tougher at the expense of one of their skilled young prospects. The Blades send 17 year old forward Jamie Crooks (who won the Alberta midget league scoring title last year) and a conditional 2011 bantam draft pick to Chilliwack for 19 year old Randy McNaught, a 6'5" power forward/tough guy. I think this is a bit of an indictment of Tyler Matheson's fighting abilities since the Blades traded him away last week, only to turn around and acquire a similar player in McNaught.

The pick is probably conditional on McNaught playing in the WHL as an overager next year. If he plays, the Blades owe the Bruins the pick. My guess anyway.

The other move, made today, sees the Rebels put overage forward Cody Esposito on waivers. The move gets the Rebels down to the limit of three overagers. There's now only six teams who are over the overage limit, with eight days remaining until the deadline next Thursday.

UPDATE: And another trade today - Medicine Hat trades overage forward Colton Grant to Chilliwack for a 2010 6th round pick. That gets the Tigers down to four overagers from five, while bumping the Bruins up to four overagers as well.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

One of those 8 teams being the Broncos who has Tassone out due to injury. Once he is able to return they have to get down to 3 overagers. They have what 2 weeks to get their roster down to proper numbers?

Alan said...

Something like that.....7 days, 10 days, two weeks....something in that range. I can't seem to recall the exact amount of time they have.

SectionNDeserter said...

I am under the impression that they have until Oct. 15th.

Alan said...

You have until Oct 15 to get down to three overagers on your 50-man PPL. But in Swift Current's case, Tassone is on their 60-day injured list and doesn't count towards the three overager limit just yet.

Once he's ready to come off the injured list (whenever that may be), the Broncos will have 7 or 10 or 14 (whatever it is) days to get down to three overagers again.

Same thing happened last year with Jesse Dudas.