Uncle Mitch is in town

To comment much about last night's game would be unfair since I didn't really hear enough of the details of the game to form an opinion. I had a house full of awesome people and an insane amount of technical difficulties to even get to listen to the game. Overall it didn't sound like they played terrible, I was stoked when Jordan Messier tied it up, but it just wasn't quite enough.

Tonight it's the Chilliwack Bruins in town, including former American and fan-favourite, Mitch McColm. All I'm sayin' is he'd better be one of the 3 stars tonight.

Ok, that's not all I'll say. Hindsight is 20/20. When Bob traded Mitch to Chilliwack, I wasn't completely surprised. I was insanely upset, but not surprised. There were too many 20s, based on their 19-year-old play alone, Brett Plouffe deserved the AMS 20 spot over Mitch. Barely, but he did. Then there was a coaching change, for Chilliwack and for the AMS. Bruins got Marc Habsheid, AMS got the fired-from-Chilliwack Jim Hiller to replace Don Nachbaur. But this isn't a history lesson. I don't know if the the coaching change or something else that has made Plouffe regress, but it's disappointing to say the least. He's been better as of late, but still. Always gotta wonder if Mitch wouldn't have been the better choice to keep in that 20 spot.

Speaking of trades, today is trade deadline day, at 2pm PST. So far, this has been one of the most inactive trade deadlines I've ever seen. Granted, I haven't been into the WHL stuff for decades or anything, but still, it's put the "dead" in deadline. There's 6 teams in action tonight, so you know that if those teams are involved in anything, we'll know about it sooner rather than later. You can follow anything that might happen on the WHL Transactions page.