YAY!!!1eleven!!1

RALEIGH, NC—Jim Rutherford, President and General Manager of the National Hockey League’s Carolina Hurricanes, today announced that the team has recalled left wing Drayson Bowman from the Albany River Rats of the American Hockey League (AHL). Rutherford also announced that forward Jerome Samson has been reassigned to Albany.

This marks the first NHL recall for the 20-year-old Bowman. Born in Grand Rapids, MI, but raised in Littleton, CO, Bowman has scored eight goals, and notched seven assists (15 points) in 26 games with Albany in his first professional season. (Hurricanes)

Chad LaRose is possibly more excited than I am. (ass-pat to Wrap for the image link)


Canes' next game is tomorrow night against Atlanta. Might have to DVR that. Oh wait, I don't have a DVR. crap.

As for the Americans, tonight they face off against the Seattle Thunderbirds again.

"It's tough to beat Calvin anyhow," said Tri-City coach Jim Hiller, who has seen the young goalie shut out his team despite firing 57 shots. "I like the goal Shinny (Brendan Shinnimin) scored (to tie Wednesday's game). He found the puck on the ground and went upstairs. You aren't going to score too many when he has a clean look."

"We went through it and they (Seattle) played well from a tactical aspect," Hiller said. "We worked on getting the puck and winning puck battles. It doesn't matter what the other team does, if you don't win the puck and control the puck, you aren't going to be very dangerous." (Herald)

I've been sitting here staring at this screen for like 10 minutes trying to come up with something to add and I got nothing. They just played Seattle. Pickard is good. T-Birds like to shut down AMS speed. Blah blah blah.

I just hope AMS are able to generate some action, break through Seattle's game plan. I would like to see more of What's my name? MIKE BROWN tonight, he didn't really play enough the other night to form an opinion either way as to whether he'll be a good fit for the team or not. When Bob said he was a Cam McCaffrey type player, I did expect someone a little bigger, thicker. But hey, whatever.

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The Tri-City Americans are teaming up with the Tri-City Herald to host a fundraising campaign for the American Red Cross' International Response Fund for Haiti on Tuesday, January 19th when the Americans host the Kamloops Blazers at the Toyota Center.

The Americans will be placing special ads in both Monday (Jan. 18) and Tuesday's (Jan. 19) edition of the Tri-City Herald. This ad will also be available through the Americans' website, www.amshockey.com. For every fan that brings a copy of this ad to the Toyota Center box office and purchases a ticket to Tuesday's game, the Americans will donate 25% of their walk-up ticket purchase to the American Red Cross' International Response Fund for Haiti. The American Red Cross will also have a presence on the Toyota Center concourse at Tuesday's game, where fans can learn more about how they can help those affected by the recent natural disaster in Haiti.

The initiative, which started with the Americans' Athletic Therapist Brian Cheeseman, is part of a worldwide relief effort to help one of the poorest countries in the world. The island nation of Haiti was rocked by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake on January 12th. (amshockey.com)

It looks like representatives from the Red Cross will be there so fans that already have tickets can donate to the cause as well.

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Don't look now, but the Americans have jumped to #4 on the BMO CHL weekly poll. Guess what that means? It'll probably go to their heads again and it will be a weekend+ of suckitude till they fall back down on the list. I'm not trying to be negative, it just seems to be the trend. Just like the Carolina Hurricanes being awesome one season, then completely sucking for the next two or so seasons. It's their shtick.