Tri-City will add another overager to its roster tonight, as veteran forward Neal Prokop makes his return from a badly broken leg he suffered back in March.
Prokop gives the Americans four overagers (the current three are forward Kruise Reddick and defencemen Tyler Schmidt and Zak Stebner), and they now have two weeks to make a decision on which three to keep and move out the fourth guy. Portland is the only team in the league with room to add an overager, but there are probably other teams who would consider any of those four guys above to be an upgrade over somebody currently on their roster....
And another overage note, Vancouver acquired forward Brendan Rowinski from Moose Jaw two weeks ago but he has still not played a game for the Giants because the Giants doctors have not cleared him to return from his knee injury. Just one catch there - Rowinski played two games for Moose Jaw before the trade. So, it would appear that Moose Jaw's doctors felt his knee was ready to play, but Vancouver's see things differently. Funny how opinion on medical issues can vary from doctor to doctor, isn't it.
One last thing, I was unaware it had been quite so long, but news reports from the Calgary/Edmonton game last night say that the Hitmen's win was their 16th consecutive win over the Oil Kings, a streak that includes a 4 game playoff sweep in 2009. Edmonton has not beaten the Hitmen since September 20, 2008. Are there any other teams out there that have similar (and active) consecutive-wins streaks against one opponent?
(And Edmonton plays Calgary again tonight at home, so they can end the streak with a win...or Calgary will push it to 17 with a win)
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Regarding Rowinski - the Warriors medical staff really dropped the ball on this situation. First failing to correctly diagnose a very serious injury and then once he recovered from a surgery - done only because he sought out another opinion - was put back in their line-up before he was ready. If my kid were going to play with the Warriors I'd be very concerned about their competency to monitor and manage my kid's health and well being. (I'm being as nice as I can be about choosing my words here).
The actions of the Warriors could have ended Brendan's career and they had the temerity to critcize his play in the last half of the season because his point production fell off. No kidding Sherlock!
Brendan is lucky to be gone from that organization. I hope he finishes his WHL career on a high note.
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