A little cross posting; some cuts

I write for more sites than I can keep up with, and my newest is Wild Nation, which is a site within Hockey Prime Time. Since my origins of writing about the Aeros began with writing prospect reports for Minnesota fans, that's what I'm going back to there, since it's an NHL-focused site.

Of course, I haven't really seen enough yet to say much, but I figure I'll write something now and see how right or wrong I end up as the season progresses. Feel free to point and laugh as I mostly get it wrong.

Anyway, here's the article.

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And speaking of Hockey Prime Time, that's one of many places one of my favorite hockey bloggers, Justin Bourne, writes. If you're not reading his stuff, you're really missing out on an inside-the-game perspective that you just don't see anywhere else.

His personal blog links out to all his articles, but he's got a piece out today for The Hockey News that's his best yet. I had an impulse to stand up and applaud when I finished. I didn't do it though. That would have been a little insane.

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Also, the Aeros announced today that off-season AHL signing Brian Kaufman was reassigned to the Gwinnett Gladiators in the ECHL, and Dylan Hunter was released from his tryout.

Madsen out; Kaufman in

Lost in the drama of the Aeros big OT win last night were a couple of roster changes, though, frankly, neither really has much effect right now.

First off is that Morten Madsen and his fierce hat are heading to Switzerland to join the Danish National team. At least I hope the hat is going. I know Morty is. Goodbye, Morty! Badbye, hat!

He's been a healthy scratch quite often lately, so I don't really see this being much of an impact to the team for the rest of the playoffs. Lundbohm and Ryznar have a good handle on that extra forward role.

So, there's your two Aeros who are participating in the World Championships which start tomorrow, and 5 Wild organization players total (Harding-Canada, Zidlicky-Czech Republic, Miettinen-Finland). I think the rest of the Wild had or will have off-season surgery or have concussions...

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Secondly, the Aeros signed Brian Kaufman, a "versatile" forward from Miami (Ohio) aka "Cold Miami" for the 2009-2010 season.

Apparently he had a fantastic junior year at Cold Miami, didn't set anything on fire his senior year, but he did attend Wild development camp this past summer, so he knows the organization and they know him. Here's an article from his time at dev camp.

He was the captain of his Miami team his senior year, much like trade-bait Ryan Jones was the year before that, so at least that indicates a certain quality of character, I would think.