Ex-Files, preseason edition

So while we wait, at golf courses and football games, for the boys to come back from Nova Scotia… (And if you haven’t, please read the introduction to this here site.)


A little update on where selected former Sound Tigers have landed for this year:

  • Jeff Hamilton and Ray Giroux have taken their Yale educations off to Russia, where they’ll play for AK Bars Kazan. For fun, run the announcement through Babelfish.
  • Eurohockey.net reports Kevin Bolibruck is on a tryout with Ilves Tampere in Finland, and of course Justin Mapletoft is now with Jokerit.
  • Mini-exodus to Germany: Brendan Yarema is with Augsburg, Ryan Kraft plays for Kassel, and Ingolstadt has a third of a 2001-02 defense reunion, with both Chris Armstrong and Ken Sutton there. (Ingolstadt also has former Beast of New Haven co-captain Craig Ferguson.)
  • There’s another mini-reunion in England, where Graham Belak, Evan Cheverie and Jeff Hutchins are all playing for Coventry.
  • All kinds of goalies in Russia: Dusan Salficky is in Voskresensk, Steve Valiquette plays for Yaroslavl, and Dieter Kochan is in Novosibirsk.
  • More Germany, non-Sound Tigers but still local: former Beast standout Herbert Vasiljevs (betcha watching him kill penalties is still worth the price of admission) and Trumbull’s own Ted Drury are playing for Krefeld.
  • Brandon Smith re-upped with Rochester, and goalie Scott Stirling will join him.
  • And former BST director of hockey ops Gordie Clark is now the New York Rangers’ chief amateur scout; he’d been a pro scout for them.

Hey, there are about 100 ex-Tigers now outside the Islanders organization (and I did say “selected”). Want to update us on your favorite? That’s what comments are for.

Michael Fornabaio