Last week, Wisconsin '07 recruit Kyle Turris got a chance to play on the first line for Burnaby last week when top line center Paul Crowder left the game with an injury, and apparently he went all Steve Davis to the Quesnel Millionaires' Ruben Riley.(You're a big boy, Chris. DO NOT cry). The BCHL had a nice article chronicling Turris' performance, and some other complimentary words. It sounds like the Badgers landed a pretty exciting offensive player.
In the Alberta Junior Hockey League, 2007 prospect Jesse Martin started the season on fire, but was temporarily derailed after a dangerous hit from Ian Barteaux.
Another prospect of interest in Alberta is Bonnyville Pontiacs forward Justin Fontaine. Fontaine is a top 2007 prospect that is currently 4th in the league in scoring with 8 goals and 14 assists. He should receive interest from many top schools.
The USHL had a number of good articles on players that have committed to colleges over the past week.
The first features North Dakota recruit Chris Vande Velde. Vande Velde moved to the USHL for 7 games last season after his high school season was over, and now, in his first full year, he's off to a very good start.
The next is on St. Cloud recruit Ryan Peckskamp. It's a nice story on a local kid that earned an offer from his hometown team through hard work and character.
Finally, there was a nice article on two of Omaha's most recent commitments in Lucas Klimek and Eric Olimb. Omaha has pretty much raided the entire Indiana Ice roster this offseason in their recruiting efforts. They've been aided by assistant coach Doc DelCastillo's connections to the Ice program. So far though, the Ice are 1-2 in their first two games of the season.
It was also a good week for Bowling Green recruits James Perkin and Jacob Cepis. Both players are in their first year in the USHL. Cepis came to Cedar Rapids from the USHL from the NAHL, and is off to a great start with 6 points in his first 5 games. James Perkin was one of the top junior players in Alberta before deciding to move to the USHL. He got off to a slow start, being held off the statsheet for his first three games, but came back in a strong way, having a hand in all 5 of his team's goals in a 5-2 win last week, with 2 powerplay goals and three assists. For that effort, Perkin was named the USHL's offensive player of the week.
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To be fair, Mike Kolodziej also played the part of Tina at times.
Yeah, but I'm giving Kolo a free pass just because I don't think he's anywhere near 100%.
I might have given Riley a free pass too with the broken hands and all if he had actually touched the guy.
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