Szpak had asked for a trade to the AJHL. The Bruins get futures in return.
The 20-year-old rearguard posted a goal and five points in 28 games last year.
Keith said there may be something else coming down the pipe in the next few days (possibly tomorrow) as well. I'll be on vacation, but check next week's Mercury for the latest.
Meanwhile, a surprising lack of interest in this year's Bruins hockey school has resulted in it being scaled back significantly.
Instead of running the full camp, Keith and assistant Cole Zahn will be doing power skating sessions for peewee and bantam players in the mornings. The camp runs for all of next week at Spectra Place.
Speaking of Cole, he and his wife (who got married earlier this summer) have found an apartment and gotten settled in Estevan. Good to hear.
I'll be home in PEI for the next 10 days, so there won't be any posts on the blog. It'll speed up quickly when I get back though with less than two weeks before training camp.
Completely unrelated to this post, but have you seen the Showcase sked. What idiot in the league office schedules the Bruins for the Sunday afternoon game? Weyburn got the last game of Showcase last year and the Battlefords the year before that. You need to ask some serious questions to this new president. I'm not a fan!
ReplyDeleteBefore you diss the new league president too much, I am guessing that the Bruin organization had input into how the scheduling was made.
ReplyDeleteI think the Bruins probably wanted the Sunday afternoon game.
ReplyDeleteAlso the game against Humboldt first kind of riled me but with Showcase scouts, etc. - playing the RBC Cup host team will likely encourage fairly strong attendance which will be good for the Bruin players.
Don't really care about the sked, but I'm hoping the SJHL under Bill Chow doesn't take a step backwards. I think the league made a terrible mistake in hiring this guy. I have seen him around rinks over the past couple of years and I'm not a fan. We'll see.
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