Projo Bruins Blog

By MARK DIVVER
Assistant Sports Editor

PROVIDENCE -- Zach Hamill practiced Wednesday for the first time since suffering a lower-body injury on Nov. 10. It's still too soon to tell whether Hamill will be ready to play this weekend, coach Rob Murray said.

Drew Fata, who also has a lower-body injury, did not skate.


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Dan Lacouture, who spent the 2004-05 season in Providence and 05-06 in Boston, is back with the P-Bruins.

Lacouture, 32, split last season between Carolina, Albany and Astana Barys of the KHL.
"He finished last year in Russia and he had a deal to go back there . . . . but they yanked the offer'' after Lacouture ran into problems with his visa, Murray said.

"He brings a certain amount of physicality. He'll fight. He's fast. Probably his number one thing over the years is he can really skate. It looked like he hasn't lost a step, watching him this morning in practice. He's a big body. He's experienced. There's a lot of different potential aspects that he can bring. So we'll see how it pans out,'' Murray said.

Lacouture, a 6'2'' 210-pound winger, was a teammate of Murray in Hamilton in 1999-2000. Lacouture had a career-high 23 goals in 70 games that season.

He has 20-25-45 totals and 348 penalty minutes in 337 NHL games with Edmonton, Pittsburgh, the Rangers, Boston, New Jersey and Carolina.


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Matt Dalton stopped all five Trenton shooters and notched his first win as a pro in Reading's 4-3 shootout victory over Trenton on Saturday. Dalton is 1-1 with a 3.89 goals-against average and a .889 save percentage.

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Ryan said:

Dalton look great through out the game in Trenton and when it came to shoot out he was calm and came out the net to close off the view of the net. from where i was sitting(behind other goal) you could not see a speck of net. if Dalton keeps his cool in net he will be a great netminder he is larg and fast and can move from post to post well.

Link | November 19, 2009 8:31 AM
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