Lets start off with the good stuff:
3 points from the weekend! A Penalties loss in Newcastle (probably some kind of karma at work there) for 1 point…….
then we beat the Squeelers on penalties! It feels soooooo good to beat them, 2 weekends on the trot even! Absolutely blinding game. End to end hockey, outstanding netminding from both teams, and some solid physical play. A little bit of handbags in the 1st, but nowt to write home about.
But we beat the Squeelers!
YES!
Now the bad shit…..
Grant Jacobsen has ‘done a bunk’ and buggered off back to the CHL. We ain’t the first club to suffer this kind of shoddy treatment from CHL based ‘pro’ (and in this case, that is a term I use loosely). Happens every season. They come here, at no small exp-ense to British clubs, get a months worth of training and money, then do a sudden ‘I got a better offer….BYE!’ type phone call, leaving us short manned and out of pocket.
And sadly, with the NA leagues operating outside of the IIHFs control, we can’t even pursue any kind of contractual claim against either him or his new club.
Bastard. Never even gave the club an oportunity to improve its terms to him.
Personally, I hope he injures himself. Will serve the git right. (Yes, I’m pissed off. More about the wasted expenditure for the club than anything else).
Grrrr.