Culver scrambling after top star seriously injured

Colby Armstrong hurt, where is the justice?


The City Wings season had been running along fairly smoothly until ...

D. CLEARY San (HOOKING, Minor, Game Misconduct) 05:54

Cleary's 14 minutes in penalties and deliberate hooking with intent to injure, ended up with Colby being out of action for a very long time. He currently sits with a CD of under 60, and is reduced to sitting and signing autographs


He is unable to do much else, and with current league rules, Culver cannot do much else either. There is no recourse for a suspension appeal at this time. Surely, this is a poor message to send out to the league, that your young stars can be viciously attacked without worry of retribution.

Culver was close to making a trade which would have seen them land Dman Wade Redden, and Jason Blake moving to Montreal, however with Army out , someone has to step in and pick up the slack, namely Blake. So, the City Wings have their hands tied and will have to focus at winning without Colby. I highly doubt the team will go out and hire a goon just to play this dirty little game.

The question GMs should ask themselves is who's next? What star will be on a team's radar to take out?

Oh Sidney, you might want to keep your head up!

Vancouver Rolling Along as Fluery Continues to Shine

Vancouver comes back home tonight to play the Cleveland Barons after a lengthy 8 game road trip wich saw them take 5 of 8 including an 8-1 drubbing over Seattle and a couple of Shutouts against Toronto and Boston. Much of their sucess comes from the stellar play of their young netminder Marc-Andre Fleury. In his last 5 games he has a 5-0 record with a 1.96 GAA and a .931 SP along with 2 Shutouts. His record for the season now stands at 9-2.
"He's been playing very well " says Canucks Captain Chris Drury. "He's kept us in the close games and allowed us to win. We have to give him more support up front".
At the begining of the season when it was announced that Fleury would be the Canucks netminder, there was alot of skeptisisim on how well the Canucks would do. "We knew we would have a bright future with Fleury in net for us but we never knew that it would come this early" says GM Kevin Bamford. "In the dressing room the guys are all excited with their recent play and have hopes of making it to the big dance".
While it's still very early into the season, Marc Andre Fleury shows no signs of slowing down and that is a very good thing for the Vancouver Canucks and their fans. Only time will tell if they have what it takes to win the cup.