Barracuda News & Discussion VII

[Hobocop]

Nope. Released from PTO (unsigned by Thunder).

Turns out you're partially right- Wichita brought him back after all. Dunno why the Cuda can't just say they released him from the PTO.

 

[LadyStanley]

Cuda did on website news

 

[Hobocop]

Not too many more guys I'd trim off the roster before opening weekend. Probably would cut:
F: Burke, Grainger, Lodnia
D: Bucheler, Hache
G: Carriere

That'd put us at 15F, 9D and 3G:
F: Bailey, Bystedt, Cardwell, Carroll, Coe, Graf, Halttunen, Houle, Poturalski, Robins, Russell, Sabourin, Vanroboys, Vincent, White
D: Cagnoni, Frisch, Furlong, Guryev, Keane, Laroque, Pulli, Schuldt, Thompson
G: Askarov, Dell, Romanov

Totally good starting the season like that. Wouldn't be torn up if we cut/dealt Carroll, Russell, or Keane, but am fine with giving them a couple looks before that happens. Keane, specifically, I wondered if he might be a point man on the PP to start the season, but we just received Cagnoni and Thompson, I'm not sure there's any need.

 

[Hobocop]

I'm a little surprised we sent both Carriere and Dell down to start, that leaves us with two goalies.

Joe Carroll just hasn't clicked with this team, we got him in a trade last season and he shows flashes of various skills but he's just never showed a complete game with us. They really must be down on Laroque. He was pretty bad in the Friday preseason game and better Sunday.

Edit: The Cuda news release on the site says Ivan Lodnia is released. So scratch him off too. 15F/9D/2G now on the roster, feels like that's probably who we'll start with:

https://www.sjbarracuda.com/assets/doc/Cuda-Camp-Roster-10.08.24-b0ba1c4ad3.pdf