Cougars Make Some Trades

Sunday, January 10, 2010 04:10 PM

Prince George, B.C.- The Prince George Cougars have shuffled the deck, acquiring 19-year old goaltender Kyle Jahraus from the Seattle Thunderbirds, in exchange for 18-year old forward Robbie Ciolfi.

Jahraus has played five games for the Thunderbirds during the 2009-10 season.

Jahraus, a 5'11", 160 pound product of Saskatoon, SK, has a record of 2-1-0-0 this season, with a 5.28 goals against average and an .850 save percentage. Jahraus also played two games for the Tri-City Americans in the 2006-07 season.

Ciolfi played a total of 55 games for the Cougars over the last two seasons, with four goals and eight assists for 12 points.

That wasn’t the only move, Cougars have dealt 19-year old import forward

Marek Viedensky to the Saskatoon Blades, in exchange for 15-year old goalie Tyler Santos, a third round pick in the 2010 WHL Bantam Draft and a conditional third round pick in the 2011 WHL Bantam Draft.

Santos was the Blades tenth selection in the 2009 WHL Bantam Draft, taken in the 10th round, 218th overall. Santos is currently playing for the Sherwood Park Kings of the Alberta Major Midget Hockey League.

Viedensky leaves the Cougars after playing in 88 career games, with 28 goals and 32 assists over that time. But wait, there’s more…..

The Cougars have acquired 18-year old import defenceman Petr Senkerik from the Kootenay Ice. The Ice get the Cougars fifth round pick in the 2011 WHL Bantam Draft in return.

Senkerik, a 5'11", 178 pounder from Zlin, Czech Republic, is in his first season in the Western Hockey League. In 36 games for Kootenay this season, Senkerik has four goals and seven assists, while posting 13 penalty minutes.

And if all that isn’t enough, the Cougars have re-acquired 20-year old forward Tyler Halliday and a third round pick in the 2011 WHL Bantam Draft from the Kelowna Rockets. In exchange, the Cougars dealt 20-year old defenceman Dallas Jackson to the Rockets.

Halliday returns to the Cougars after being acquired by the Rockets in November. Halliday played a total of 85 games for the Cougars, including 19 at the start of the 2009-10 season. Halliday has seven goals and 10 assists in 40 games this season.

Jackson, who the Cougars acquired prior to the 2008-09 season, heads to Kelowna after playing a total of 86 games for the Cougars. Jackson was the Cougars leading scorer this year, with 11 goals and 29 points.

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Posted on Sunday, January 10, 2010 04:10 PM in Sports by 250 Sports

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Comments

Posted by: Pylot Project on January 10 2010 4:34 PM

bummer... no change in the Team Management office.

Posted by: Resident on January 10 2010 5:40 PM

Trading Jackson sure won't help put numbers in the win column.
Sure doesn't appear that the trades made will make next year a significant improvement over the dismal 2009/2010 season.
Gotta feel for the kids. Must be horrible playing for a perennial losing team. More like a sentence rather than an opportunity.
How low does the attendance have to go before the owner makes a change at the position of general manager?

Posted by: MrPG on January 10 2010 11:06 PM

Well, it looks like the team is facing facts that they will miss the playoffs this year. The team had to move their best players... looks like we're in for another re-build.

Posted by: rocketttes on January 11 2010 7:24 AM

Trading off the stronger players doesn't seem to have worked for the Cougars in the past, so why continue doing the same? The hole just keeps getting bigger and Saskatoon gets stronger, hmmmmmmmmmmmm. Is this a ploy by the Cougars management to justify their eventual move out of P.G.?

Posted by: MrPG on January 11 2010 8:28 AM

Keeping the 'stronger' players certainly hasn't put enough wins on the board, so IMO doing something is better than doing nothing.

There have been years where they've stood pat and done nothing and that didn't do anything for the team either.

Posted by: Mr.T on January 11 2010 12:35 PM

I must say I am disappointed. We have had seasons tickets since day 1. This year has been the worst to endure. Terrible schedule. So many back to back games. It is hard to get excited to go to the second night after a poor showing the first night. Now we get management trading away our "stronger" players which weakens the team even more for this year. So again we get this rebuilding thing happening for sometime in the future. In the meantime those of us with season's tickets have lost even more "entertainment value" for this year. I'll be purchasing tickets at the door after this year.

Posted by: giterdun on January 11 2010 2:19 PM

Should trade Dallas to the Giants for Don Hay,or anybody, PLEASE. Brodsky's I.Q. appears to be the same as his shoe size.