The Komets did practice today, and they were laughing a little bit about Fort Wayne's response to the weather. What can I say? These guys are from Quebec, so this is nothing to them.
Their plan is to leave for Chicago by noon on Wednesday, figuring eight and a half hours should be plenty of time to make that trip. And they will go directly from Chicago to Moline, Ill., for Friday's game against the Quad City Mallards.
Here's hoping this trip goes better than the one in 2005, when they were headed to Kansas City via air before their flight was canceled. The Komets ended up getting stranded in Detroit and needing a vehicle to get back to Fort Wayne. But somehow, their equipment did make its way to Kansas City.
In more positive news, center Bruce Richardson will be back in the lineup Wednesday, after missing 19 games because of a torn labrum in his hip. He can hardly contain his excitement and has no worries that he'll jinx the Komets, who have won 10 of their last 11 games. (The Komets are 19-10-1 with Richardson in the lineup.)
Head coach Pat Bingham commended Richardson for his assistant-coach work when he was out. Bingham said it made things much easier in terms of line changes, monitoring who was tired and who wasn't and just managing everything behind the bench.
Aside from Richardson, look for right wing Bogdan Rudenko to return to the lineup Friday. He missed the last three games with a broken nose, suffered in practice.
-- By Justin A. Cohn, The Journal Gazette
Justin, Is there a place on the web where I can find an All Time Komet roster???? If anyone else knows where I could find this info that would be great!!! Thanks
Posted by: Jerad Shaw | February 15, 2007 at 09:49 AM
You can find a lot of that on hockeydb.com
Posted by: jc | February 16, 2007 at 01:32 AM