Saturday, November 21, 2009

Sackrison suffers broken leg and other news out of Alaska


Thanks to Karen Davis (Kurt Davis' mom) for sending this photo. Apparently, this moose greeted the Mavericks when they arrived at their hotel on Thursday.

In other news from Anchorage, junior forward Andrew Sackrison suffered a broken leg during the first period of Friday's game. He went to the hospital and is now in a cast.

I spoke with coach Troy Jutting this afternoon and here are a couple of his comments:

On Jerad Stewart's four-goal, one-assist performance: "Sometimes you get rewarded. He's definitely a kid that shows up and works hard every day and has since day one when he first stepped on campus. ... He had a lot of good opportunities last night. Some of it is puck luck and showing up at the right time, and some of it is being good, too."

On the Mavericks' eight-goal outburst: "I don't know if we played any better or even if we played as good as last weekend or the weekend before that, but we converted our opportunities. It was nice to see the kids rewarded for their effort."

Jutting said that freshman Kevin Murdock would get the start in goal tonight. It will be Murdock's first action since Oct. 31 at Denver.

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