Transactions and other Utah Grizzlies news

There have been a few more changes to the Grizzlies' roster this week.


In:

• James Sixsmith rejoins the Grizzlies from his latest stint in the AHL. He played Monday night, but was not feeling well and did not travel with the team in Victoria.
• Steve McJannet was acquired from the Florida Everblades in exchange for future considerations. McJannet made himself at home with his first fight in a Utah jersey on Monday night.

Out:

• Chris Allen, who only played 3 games on Utah ice, has been traded to Bakersfield. He's the third defenseman this year to be traded to Bakersfield from Utah.
• Forward Ryan-James Hand has been placed on waivers. Looks like he was picked up yesterday by the Reading Royals.
• Patrick Asselin, who was picked up off waivers by Utah from Idaho, has been traded to Kalamazoo in exchange for future considerations.

Other Utah Grizzlies news

The Grizzlies made a visit to Shriners Hospital on January 27. Shriners Hospital was the chosen charity for the Guns & Hoses 2010 game which was played on January 30. The Grizzlies were scheduled to wear themed jerseys later that night and auction them for charity after the game, but the jerseys were delayed. The auction is scheduled to take place following the February 20 game.

A portion of ticket sales from Monday's game was donated to the Shoot for a Cure charity which promotes awareness about spinal injuries. We think this is pretty damn cool and wished we could have heard more about this than Gary Coleman dropping the puck

Former Utah Grizzlies goaltender Parker Van Buskirk has been loaned to the Hershey Bears of the AHL. He's been signed to a PTO and looks like he'll be playing backup.

The Grizzlies are in Victoria tonight. Puck drops at 8 pm.

Utah Grizzlies deal Shea Guthrie to Everblades, acquire Prokop from Bakersfield, sign Hand

Grizzlies traded Shea Guthrie to Florida Everblades today. Shea, who has 13 points (7 goals, 6 assists) in 22 games with the Utah Grizzlies, was traded for the rights to Simon Ferguson. Sounds like Ferguson has spent all of his time with the Everblades in the AHL where he's played 13 games with Syracuse and tallied 3 assists.

While we were a little upset about Caria, this trade made us sad. Mainly because we were just starting to see some consistancy from Shea this month, and he has been one of our favorite n00bs to watch this year. But hockey is hockey is hockey, so we're trusting Colley on this again. Looks like Ferguson has been in the AHL over the past 3 years so we'll see how he works with our team.

To finish up the trade from Bakersfield, the Grizzlies picked up Patrik Prokop. Sounds like he had a decent junior career. So far this year he's played 7 games with the Condors and racked up 11 PIM.

And to finish up the changes, Utah picked up Ryan Hand as their new enforcer. We're interested to see how he affects the team, particularly against Idaho and Alaska. This boy tallies up the penatly minutes, which tells us he knows how to get the job done.

Luck to Shea in Florida!

Go Grizzlies!

Utah Grizzlies News and Updates.

There have been a couple of really decent articles about the Grizzlies in the local news and around the web, so we decided to list them for you.

The SL Tribune did an article about the Grizzlies' success and the call-ups the team has undergone recently: Grizzlies cope with success.

Speaking of call-ups . . .
Old news, but the Deseret News did a nice article on Kinasewich and his call-up to the AHL.

Also regarding Kinasewich, Channelsurfing.net is going to run the feed of the AHL game Rochester vs Hamilton tonight. So if you miss watching Snatch in action, you can watch him online.

Also, if you're a Serty fan, you can watch KHL games in the morning on Channelsurfing.net.

And to catch up with some old faces, it sounds like Caria has recently decided to leave the Everblades in favor of going to university. Florida has suspended Caria to retain his rights, but Caria had been thinking about leaving the ECHL to go to school even while in Utah.

That's all for now . . .

Go Grizzlies!

Utah Grizzlies News: Caria traded to Florida?!

Okay, we're not happy about this, but . . .

We're going to be as objective and diplomatic as possible.

And not mention the Kotsopoulos trade of 2009.

Word has it Caria's being traded to the Florida Everblades of the ECHL for Jadran Beljo, who has yet to see ice time for Florida.

Wait, what?

We're hoping we have bad information on this one.

No such luck.

We received an email from Woody Wommack, who covers the Florida Everblades for the Naples Daily News.

I wanted to give you a heads up on a trade that just went down between Florida and Utah. The Grizzlies send Matt Caria to the Everblades for the rights to Jardan Beljo. All the details are on my blog, if you could link to my post that would be awesome.

You got it, Woody. Blades' Blog.

It looks like we'll be needing to add some American Conference blogs to our list ASAP.

It sounds like this is the real deal.

So far our coaching staff has given us no reason to doubt them.

They seem to genuinely want to help the boys develop their talent and move up in the hockey system.

In Colley and Curcio we trust.

We're going to miss Caria.

It sounds like he'll be taking the ice tomorrow for Florida, along with former Grizzlies' forward Rob Hennigar.

Luck, Matt!

Go Grizzlies!

Everblades swing deal to acquire Matt Caria from Utah