Two deals in the WHL tonight, both of them involving the Tri-City Americans and - coincidentally - both spelling bad news for Tri-City players named Zach.
In the first deal, the Ams have dealt '93 forward prospect Zach McPhee to the Everett Silvertips for 19 year old defenceman Paul Sohor. McPhee started the year in the Tri-Cities but was reassigned after 8 games. Sohor also started the year in Everett but had gone home to wait for a trade after being unhappy with his ice time in Everett.
In the second deal, Tri-City resolved their overage problem by trading overage defenceman Zach Stebner to the Kelowna Rockets. The Americans also sent the Rockets a 2011 7th round bantam pick, and in return they get a 2011 4th round pick and a 2012 8th round pick from the Rockets.
The deal gave the Rockets four overage players, and they have solved that problem by releasing 20 year old defenceman Brendan Wall.
For the Americans, they only acquired Stebner six weeks ago from the Hitmen, and gave up a 3rd round pick in that deal. They only got a 4th round pick in return, and they had to swap a 7th for an 8th in order to get that 4th rounder too. So, clearly the Ams take a bit of a loss on the Stebner deals when all is said and done. I'm guessing they may not have expected Neal Prokop to be able to return and play as an overager this year?
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I got my first look this season last night at the Kootenay Ice. Ouch, my Raiders have a long way to go to reach the level of this elite team. I recall earlier in the year a very dsigruntled Ice fan calling for wholesale changes on this site to the Ice management because they choose to by pass the Euro draft (known by some as the mafia draft), had little playoff success over the last decade (despite maybe the best regular season record over that time and a Mem. cup). Just goes to show the last people you should listen to are the fans who operate purely on emotion. Also shows some fans are just plain nuts.
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