Juha Toivonen collected goaltender of the week honors for the second time this season (third time in 7 weeks for an Odessa goaltender), while Jeff Christian became the second Tulsa Oilers player to garner player of the week honors, joining Michael Beausoleil (week 5).
Also, as most of you may have heard from around the blog community, the big controversy of the weekend is surrounding this hit that left Rio Grande Valley's Trevor Weisgerber unconscious on the ice. Sandalow, Rajan, Bochinni, et al have had plenty to say about this in the past few days. So let's open up this forum as well. Thoughts? Was it a clean hit? I don't know as of yet who it was that hit Weisgerber (one reader speculated that it was Troy Ofukany), but if you check out Rajan's blog, I think Matt Turek's comparison to the Mark Bell/Daniel Alfredsson hit is pretty accurate. The hit on Weisgerber wasn't blatantly late, and he did get caught watching the play. Still, I'm in no position to say whether the hit was dirty because the camera is too far away to see exactly how he gets hit. Even shoulder-on-head is deemed clean, but it looks a bit like there is an elbow that comes up on the play, and putting your elbow to a guy's temple is not only illegal, it's dangerous -- dangerous enough to warrant a suspension.
UPDATE: according to Kollen Long's blog, it was Thunder defenseman Curtiss Patrick who laid the hit on Weisgerber. The league reviewed the hit and it was passed down via director of communications Bob Hoffman that "the hit was clean."
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I say: Keep your head up. Clean hit. IMHO> And Sean Avery's comments weren't "suspended TFN type of comments either.
Cheers, Mi3ke
I don't know...calling Elisha Cuthbert "sloppy seconds" is worth an ass-whooping in my book! Then again, that has nothing to do with professionalism, that's just my opinion! :-)
Congratulations Juha ! I may be a Scorps fan but I know a talented player when I see one. I wouldn't be suprised to see him called up again before the season is up.
And for anyone who gets the chance to speak with Juha he is hella sweet guy with a wicked sence of humor. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
Wishing a quick recovery to Juha who will be out 4-6 weeks with a bum knee, and Mario Joly who will be having surgery later this week..... The injury bug sucks when it hits.
Speedy recovery indeed. That would explain the rumors of a third goaltender heading to the Jacks. Still, I would much rather see Vincent in goal, as the Scorpions have had reasonable success against him
Unfortunately the third goalie is stuck at the border as of now, We have had moderate success against him too. But when he played here earlier this season with his former team he rode the bench. I am sure they will try to use Vinny all they can.
I'm guessing Dan McWhinney...?
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