An update from the B.C.

This blog has been known to make people smarter, and this post is no exception. Pay attention.

Tonight, the Aeros will play a game farther away from Houston than they ever have before.
Second place goes to Edmonton, when they played the Roadrunners during the lockout year.
Third, believe it or not, is San Francisco when the IHL featured the San Francisco Spiders in 1995-96.
Fourth is Manchester, N.H., where the Aeros have played only one game during the Rob Daum era.

Now that your IQ has been titillated, let's move on to the important stuff.

By now, everybody knows that Josh Harding got hurt keeping the Wild in their game against the Red Wings last night. (Below, you can see the replay of the save(s) Harding made when he got hurt.) Today it was announced that Harding will miss 1-2 weeks with the injury.

Anton Khudobin has been recalled to Minnesota, and Wade Dubielewicz will start the next two games against the Heat in Abbotsford. Now here is the good part. Due to the fact that Barry Brust is 2,662 miles away from the Aeros, the team chose to make one of those proximity signings that coaches always like to talk about.

In this case, a goalie coach from Calgary will be the Aeros backup tonight. If Dubielewicz gets hurt tonight or tomorrow, 41-year old Andrew Neilson (pictured left) will man the pipes for the Aeros.

Brust, however, will not join the Aeros for this trip, and that has to be very disappointing since Barry hails from nearby.

So not only are the Aeros playing further away from the Bayou City than they've every played, they will also employ the oldest goalie they've ever paid.

Thanks to Tony Hrkac, Neilson is not the oldest player ever to dress for the Aeros. I think it's pretty much safe to assume that record will never be broken, unless, you know, Tony gets a call again this spring.