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Rats return to ice with new faces
by David Lee on 02/26/09 at 03:11 PM ET
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On Wednesday night, the Albany River Rats returned to the ice for the first time since their team bus crashed last week, sending five to the hospital. They had four callups from the ECHL and Brandon Sutter was assigned to Albany by Carolina. Sutter had been a healthy scratch for three games and is in Albany as an underage player. By rule, the AHL does not permit teenagers raised in North America to play. Sutter isn’t old enough, but is permitted to join the team because it’s being called a “conditioning stint”.
Sutter scored the game’s first goal, and the Rats went on to defeat the Bridgeport Sound TIgers 3-2 in a shootout. The Rats still find themselves well out of a playoff spot, but are hoping for a big push down the homestretch.
In an unusual move, the River Rats radio broadcasting crew used one of the injured Rats—Brett Carson—as a fill-in for their color commentator, who was also injured in the bus crash.
More on this from Luke Decock of the N&O.
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David Lee is a restaurant manager with an unused degree in political science. He can be found at Carolina Hurricanes games, Scrabble tournaments and indie-rock shows. Sometimes, all in the same day.
David has contributed to CBC.ca for their Stanley Cup playoff coverage in 2006 and to the New York Times Slapshot blog for theirs in 2008. Red and Black Hockey was founded in July of 2005.
