FOG, McBRIDE GREET ALASKA IN BOISE
SEATTLE - The Alaska Aces have been assigned forward Brock McBride (pictured, in white jersey) by their AHL affiliate in Peoria. As a result of heavy fog, the team has been forced to spend the night in Seattle and fly to Boise in the morning.
McBride had been set to meet the team in Boise late Thursday afternoon, but delays caused by heavy fog made that impossible. A rookie out of St. Lawrence University, the 23-year-old McBride played in eight regular season and five playoff games for Hartford (AHL) last year and scored his first professional goal Nov. 18 as a member of the Syracuse Crunch, who subsequently traded him to Peoria. He had yet to appear in a game for Rivermen and has five points (1g-4a) in 22 career AHL games. McBride led St. Lawrence in scoring as a junior, finished second on the club as a senior, and completed his collegiate career with 110 points on 40 goals and 70 assists in 140 games.
The team immediately retreated to an airport-area hotel and now is scheduled to arrive in Idaho at 11:25 MT, less than eight hours before the first of its two clashes against the Steelheads gets underway. Live coverage of both games (Saturday's rematch also starts at 7:10 MT) begins on KFQD 750 AM 4:45 p.m. with the Peanut Farm Pre-Game Show. The teams split a pair in Boise two weeks ago, with Idaho claiming the opener 6-4 before Alaska rallied to win the next night, Dec. 4, by a score of 6-1.
