Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Lewiston Maineiacs 1st Official Cuts

After some players left this weekend to keep their NCAA Eligibility. Coach Ed Harding has announced the 1st round of cuts. Here are the players that were cut:

Raphael Joly, Justin Parsons, Patrick Lanteigne, Josh Fattore, Logan Phillips, Jared Wilson, Jonathan Tower, Michael Hynes, Robby Theriault, Pier-Luc Pelletier, Tommy Dery and Marc-Andre L'Heurault all packed their bags.

No real surprises here. Pier-Luc Pelletier is probably the most surprising out of the cuts. I thought he would make it to the final round of cuts.

The most surprising cut was goalie Kirk Rafuse. I thought he would be the final cut at the goalie position when Peter Delmas comes back from Colorado Avalanche Training Camp. That leaves the Maineiacs with no QMJHL experience the first few regular season games. Marc-Antoine Coulombe also a netminder, was also cut.

Here's my lineup as of now

Goalies

Peter Delmas
Jonathan Connelly
Phillip Wright (The back up goalie while Delmas is gone.)

Defenseman

Patrick Cusack-Michael Ward
Eric Gelinas-Denis Reul
Garrett Clarke-Sean Stagles
Jordan Stapleton

Danick Paquette-Filip Janosik-Maxime Gratchev
Pier Olivier Morin-Michael Chaput-Alex Beaton
Todd Chinova-Billy Lacasse-Brett Gallant
Matt Bourdeau-Marc Bourgeois-Lucas LaBelle
Étienne Brodeur

To avoid confusion...These players are still in camp.

Tom Michalik
Dany Coulombe
Steeven Jacques
Justin Cloutier
Simon Bissonnette
Dominic Savoie

That's My Take

(Nathan can be reached at fbbhgfan@aol.com)

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