No luck for Bretton Cameron

Last playoffs Bretton Cameron couldnt play because of emergency Appendicitis Surgery (or something similar, cant remember the exact name). Now just 2 games back and he is out another 4-6 weeks with a fractured hand he suffered in a fight last game against Finnish player tommi kivisto from the red deer rebels. Cameron was dominating the fight untill Kivisto dropped him with a bomb. Both players left teh game after the fight, Kivisto came back for one shift in teh second wearing a full face shield, but that was all as he left the game soon after as he could not see properly.

A couple ex tigers in nhl exhibition today

Derek Dorsett was in Columbus lineup, had about 5 minsutes of icetime, and was involved in a first period scrap. Hopefully it will be on hockeyfightscom sometimes tonight of tomorow.

Matt Keetley was in net for the flames. Flames won 3-2.(telivised)
First goal he let in wasn''t his fault, Phaneuf gave the puck away at the blueline, then moments later slid into keetley knocking him and the puck in the net.

2nd goal: he stopped a shot that was tipped, then saved another shot off the right hand side, the third shot was sorta a quick shot from a bad angle after keetley dove to teh other side, the player sorta waited a sec then fired a quick one along the ice which beat him.

He wasn't tested too much, made most of the save look easy and routine.

3 days till Tiger Home Opener YaY!

Keetley on the tube tonight?

SPORTSNET.CA – The Calgary Flames will look to rebound from Tuesday’s loss to Florida when they take on the Phoenix Coyotes Wednesday in Winnipeg at MTS Centre.

Watch it live on Sportsnet West at 6 p.m. MT.

Reports say Matt keetley is expected to start tonight!

Tyler Ennis has been returned

The Buffalo Sabres today returned eight players to their junior clubs: forwards Luke Adam (St. John,'s, QMJHL), Paul Byron (Gatineau, QMJHL), Tyler Ennis (Medicine Hat, WHL) and Jacob Lagace (Chicoutimi, QMJHL); defensemen T.J. Brennan (St. John's, QMJHL), Nick Crawford (Saginaw, OHL), Drew Schiestel (Niagara, OHL) and Jordon Southorn (Prince Edward Island, QMJHL).

The Sabres play Montreal tonight (7 p.m., NHL Network) in Roberval, Que., as part of the Hockeyville 2008 celebrations.

The Sabres' home preseason schedule is this weekend at HSBC Arena with games Saturday at 7 against the Toronto Maple Leafs and Sunday at 7 against the Minnesota Wild.

http://www.buffalonews.com/258/story/446294.html

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Jordan Bendfeld was sent down to the Springfield Falcons (Oilers ahl affiliate)
Former tiger Kevin Nastiuk was sent down to the Boston Bruins farm team Peoria.
Fomer tiger clark MacCarthur had a couple assists in buffalo's 7-4 loss to Toronto.

Former Tiger Jordie Deagle was released by the Prince George Cougars yesterday, got to be disapointing for a former 1st round bantam draft pick.

No word yet on tomas kundratek or tyler ennis. Neither has played in an exhibition game so far.

Rebels win in a shootout 5-4

The first period Ended with the rebels leading 2-0.
Rebel goal scoreres were Landon Ferraro, and cody Gross.

Bretton Cameron just fought finn Tommi Kivisto. Cameron got some good shots in then Kivisto dropped him. However Kivisto didn't return to the game according to the rebels broadcasters.
(Apparently kivisto could barely see out of his eye and looked pretty beat up, according to Luke egner on the broadcast during the rebels postgame show).
The rebels got an early jump but in the second half the tigers started to come on.

2nd period

The second period had another fight between John Stampohar and Rebel Cody Esposito, a couple of big boys. The Tigers also scored 2 goals to the rebels 1.
Scoring for the tigers was Linden Vey, and a rocket from Mark Isherwood both on the powerplay.
The rebels goal scorer was Tomas polak.
Down 3-2 with one period to go.
Landon Ferraro for the rebels got a 5 minute major and game misconduct for checking from behind.

3rd period
Isherwood fanned on a shot, it went right to bosch and he potted it in the net, on the powerplay. 3-3.
Isherwood then scored another on the powerplay to go up 4-3. He's had a nice start to the season so far 3 goals in 2 games.

Rebels tied it up when Rebel Tomas Polak scored his second of the night tipping the puck past Holfeld.

GOING TO OVERTIME
SHOOTOUT!

(Rebels)Willie Coetzee - Miss
(Tigers) Linden Vey - Miss
(Red Deer) Cody gross - Miss
(Tigers) Zdenek Okal - Miss
(Red Deer) Brett Ferguson - Miss
(Tigers) Travis Dunstall - Miss
(Red Deer) Brennan Wray - Miss
(Tigers)Brennan Bosch - Miss
(Red Deer) Cass Mapin - Goal
(Tigers) Wacey Hamilton - Goal
(Red Deer) Curtis Smith - Miss
(Tigers) Sean Ringrose - Miss
(Red Deer) Steve Oursaf - Goal
(Tigers)Joey Frazer - Goal
(Red Deer) - Colin Morin - Miss
(Tigers) - Mark Isherwood - CrossbarMiss
(Red Deer) Luke Egner - Goal
(Tigers) Jace Coyle - Goal
(Rebels)Tyler Penny - Miss
(Tigers) Colton Grant - Miss noshot
(Rebels)Cody Esposito - Goal
(Tigers) Josh Koper - Miss
Rebels Win 5-4 in a shootout

3 stars:
1. (Rebels) - Morgan Clark
2.(Rebels) - Tomas Polak
3.(Tigers) Brennan Bosch

All in all not a bad opening week 3 points in 4 nights.
Next Tigers game is a home and home with Lethbridge next friday.

Tigers Win Season opener

I listened to the Edmonton Broadcast and by the third it seemed like they were pretty bored by the play of the Oil Kings, and were praising the tigers squad.

Brennan Bosch was named the captain his assistants were Patrick Kozyra, Sean Ringrose, and Bretton Cameron.

Tonights starters Were

Grant Ringrose Cameron
Kozyra Isherwood

Tigers come out with a 5-1 victory. A GREAT Showing for missing Ennis, Hamilton, and Kundratek. The first 2 periods were fairly even but the tigers hammered the oil kings in the third period.

Tigers point summary
Colton Grant------- 1G 1A = 2pts
Bretton Cameron---1G 1A= 2pts
Brennan Bosch-----0G 2A=2pts
Mark Isherwood---1G 0A=1pts
Zdenek Okal-------1G 0A=1pts
Mathew Konan-----1G 0A=1pt
Josh Koper--------0G 1A=1pt
Linden Vey-------0G 1A=1pt
Sean Ringrose-----0G 1A=1pt
Tristan King------0G 1A=1pt

Posting game sheet link in the bottom right of the blog.

Captains

There is a good indication that Brennan Bosch could be named the next Tigers Captain. The medicine hat news had an article about it, with various players saying their first pick for captain would be Bosch.

- Bosch certainly would be a good choice. If i had to guess the A's I would consider wacey hamilton, Bretton cameron, and perhaps Mark Isherwood.

In other news...
Shayne Neigum, cousin of former tiger Derek Dorsett, has been named an assitant captain for the Edmonton Oil Kings.

Puck drop tonight is at 7:00 Mtn.

Bendfeld - Sun writeup

The Edmonton sun had a writeup on "former" tiger Jordan Bendfeld. After reading this it pretty much 100% confirms he wont be back as a tiger.

"He's played well enough," said Oilers assistant general manager Kevin Prendergast. "I think we have to work on his puck movement at times - he panics a little bit - but he's a young kid, he's big enough and strong enough to take care of the rest of it.

"He's one of those kids that we want to see play. So he'll go to Springfield and if it doesn't work out there, he'll go to Stockton."

Here the link to the full article
http://www.edmontonsun.com/Sports/Oilers/2008/09/19/6812636-sun.html

Haven't heard much about our 3 players away an nhl camps.
Tomas kundratek didn't play in the rookie tournament in traverse city, which is a little odd. I heard something about a finger injury that kept him out.

I have heard Tyler Ennis is having a good camp. But no word on when he is expected back yet.

Bendfeld played regularly in Edmonton's preseason game yesterday. Watched it when it was streamed online. Looked ok, same old benfeld style of play.

Tigers take on Edmonton Tomorow in the season Opener..All i can say is woooohooooo!