Cougars Name Captain

Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:12 AM

Tomorrow marks the start of the Cougars season with a home game hosting Seattle, and today, the Cougars announced their selection for Captain.

The young man who was the MVP last year, will be the team leader this year, 20 year old Eric Hunter will wear the "C". He will have plenty of help as Brett Robertson, Nick Drazenovic, Ty Wishart, Jared Walker, Kalvin Sagert, and Greg Gardner will all share assistant captain duties.

“It was extremely difficult for our coaching staff to only select three assistant captains. We have more than enough qualified candidates, and as a result felt our core leadership responsibilities needed to be shared within this group”, states Head Coach Mike Vandekamp.

Robertson, Drazenovic, and Wishart will wear A’s on the team’s black jerseys, while Walker, Sagert, and Gardner will wear A’s on the team’s white jerseys.

The Cougars will wear their black jerseys at home for the first half of the season. They will change to the white jerseys at CN Centre after Christmas.

The Cats have also announced they have picked up a new forward.

They have acquired 17 year old forward Jordie Deagle of the Medicine Hat Tigers in exchange for Tyler Gron and a conditional 3^rd round Bantam selection in 2008.

The 6’0”, 187 lbs. Deagle skated in 5 pre season games with the Tigers this season. The former 1^st round Bantam selection of the Tigers registered 2 goals and 4 assists.

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