July 18, 2022
Denver Post
Ice Chips
The Denver Spurs, local entry in the
CCHL, have fired their young Coach Jeremy Colliton, 37 and hired long time NHL
coach Bruce Boudreau, 67.
Boudreau has a wealth of coaching
experience with over 800 NHL games coached coupled with excellent leadership.
While Colliton did a good job in his
short tenure in just missing the playoffs last season, team ownership and
leadership feels Boudreau is the experienced coach for the level of hockey
played in the CCHL to get the Spurs over the hump to the playoffs.
Boudreau will have some new faces
brought into Denver this summer to work with in the likes of free agent signees
T.J Oshie slated for 1st line RW. Portsider James van Riemsdyk along with
blueliners Jeff Petry, Derek Forbort and Jacob Middleton. Middleton was brought
in via trade with Fort Erie. It appears Middleton will be a 3rd blueliner
pairing with Matt Roy. JVR is probably destined for the 3rd line with Petry and
Forbort looking at 1st and 2nd pairings respectively.
To backup starting goalie Tristan
Jarry, the Spurs signed veteran goalies Brian Elliott and Antti Raanta.
So, the new Spurs' coach will have
new Spurs' players to work with in addition to the Spurs existing players from
last season.
Hope springs eternal as ownership is
hoping for a playoff entry this season.
How the lines shape up at this
point:
Jenner - Landeskog - Oshie -
Spurgeon - Petry
Sutter - Olofsson - Saad - Myers -
Forbort
Kuraly - van Riemsdyk - Nichushkin -
M.Roy - Middleton
Howden - Pearson - Vilardi
Jarry - Elliott
The Denver Spurs also announce the
signing of a contract with the AHL Colorado Eagles to be their top farm club up
i-25 in Loveland, Colorado. The Eagles will be playing their home games at the
Budweiser Events Center.
It'll just be about an hour's drive
when a player is called up to the Spurs or one is sent up to Loveland.
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