Monday, May 17, 2010

Day 4 . . .

The Calgary Hitmen will be without at least two players Monday night when they meet the Windsor Spitfires in a clash of unbeaten teams – both are 1-0 -- at the 2010 MasterCard Memorial Cup in Brandon.
F Brandon Kozun, the WHL’s leading regular season and playoff scorer, won’t dress. He suffered an ankle injury in Game 5 of the WHL’s championship final on May 7 and was off skates for a week. He tried to play Saturday in what turned into a 5-4 Calgary victory over the Moncton Wildcats but wasn’t at all effective on a handful of shifts, none of them in the third period.
Rather than play around, the Hitmen will scratch him and try to get him ready for Wednesday’s game against the Brandon Wheat Kings (1-2).
The Hitmen also will be without D Jaynen Rissling against Windsor. He left Saturday’s game early in the first period after being checked hard by Moncton’s Scott Bannon.
The Wheat Kings clinched at least a spot in a tiebreaker with their 4-0 blanking of the Wildcats (0-2) on Sunday afternoon.
The Wildcats and Spitfires will play Tuesday, with Moncton needing a victory to stay alive.
As Moncton head coach Danny Flynn put it after Sunday’s loss: “If we don’t win a game in the round-robin, we don’t deserve another chance.”
He’s right.

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