Given that the Stars are on the third day of a 3-in-3 and Dallas doesn't play today, it makes an awful lot of sense. He'll be well rested and ready to get some game action after just backing up starter Alex Auld for a few days.
Also, though it hasn't been reported on the AHL transactions sheet, Pointstreak (the stats machine for the Central Hockey League) indicates that Brett Jaeger was returned to the Texas Brahmas yesterday. UPDATE: Though the scoresheet is showing Jaeger is still with the team, so who knows what's up. UPDATE to the UPDATE: The Brahmas activated him to let him "serve" his one game suspension for the spearing incident in his last game with them. If I heard correctly, Constantine told Joe O'Donnell it could be another week, maybe longer, before Harding is ready to play again, so it looks like it's Dubielewicz and Jaeger for a while.
I personally haven't heard what's going on... whether Khudobin has been reassigned to Houston or if they're bringing a different back-up in. Last I heard, it was looking like sometime this week that Josh Harding would be ready to practice again. The Wild don't play until Thursday and today is an off day for the big club, so... could be a number of scenarios.
Certainly, apart from one incredible period on Tuesday, when Dubielewicz and the boys held off Hamilton during all that penalty killing, Dubie hasn't impressed, so getting Khudobin back would be a real boon.
Still, apart from their fresh goalie in Climie, the Stars should be a bit tired today, while the Aeros traveled back from Michigan yesterday and should be a little bit fresher and hopefully pretty motivated after a two losses.
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Get used to it. The Wild have had a lot of injuries and are a horrible hockey team even when healthy. Their main positive so far is that they aren't as bad as the Leafs. Then again, there are some Juniors teams that aren't as bad as the Leafs.
This should be a motive for our guys to play hard and get a chance to move up, but given the way these last three have gone the message doesn't seem to be getting through.
FC, if one follows your positing... there seems to be no good reason for the Aeros guys to play hard if they are only moving up to a team that "is horrible even when healthy"... but I guess playing in an NHL team however 'horrble' beats playing in an AHL team however good it may turn out to become?
Just a personal observation
:-), ;-)!
Kevin Constantine has performed NEAR Miracles in the past. So don't give up on the Aeros yet, if they can gel into a good reliable team, they may surprise us all.. vide last season.
Despite the lack of scorers like Locke, and others ...
BTW, just read that Beaudoin got his goal for the Stars vs Aeros yesterday. He, too, was one of the scorers during the play offs last season. sigh....
Arts -
The minimum NHL salary is something like 6-7 times the average AHL salary, maybe 4 times for elite AHL players.
So even getting the call up to the Leafs is something desireable!
WEEEEELLLL, 'money is a great persuader', always?
Anton's coming back!
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