Wednesday roundup: Komets fall to Kalamazoo

The Fort Wayne Komets dropped a 3-2 OT decision to Kalamazoo on Wednesday night. Matt Caria scored in OT for the K-Wings. Shawn Sydlowski and newcomer Christian Ouellet scored for the Komets. Komets starter Andrey Makarov was injured and replaced by Ben Meisner in the game. Each allowed one regulation goal.

• Journal-Gazette game story
• News-Sentinel game story
• Boxscore

News roundup 1/9

The state hockey news roundup for the day

Fort Wayne Komets

• N-S: The Komets acquired two players in a trade with Elmira, forwards Matt Carter and Christian Ouellet.
• J-G: Komets surging with a new outlook, new players.
• N-S: Blake Sebring's notebook, ex-Komet Brett Smith wants one more chance to play

Notre Dame Fighting Irish

• Coach Jeff Jackson didn't care much for playing outdoors at Fenway Park last weekend.  The BC blog takes him to task a bit. 

Indiana Ice

• The Edmonton Oilers' Future Watch profiles Ice forward (and Oilers draftee) Aidan Muir. 
• New USHL team the Madison Capitols have launched their website.

ECHL: Komets/IceMen schedules

Since we posted the Indiana Ice schedule, other schedules for in-state hockey teams, starting with the two ECHL teams.

The season runs from Oct. 19-April 12 for both teams.

Evansville IceMen
Fort Wayne Komets

ECHL protected lists

Earlier this week, the ECHL released the protected lists for all of its teams.

The link for the protected lists

Essentially, it means teams have exclusive negotiating rights with the following players in the ECHL until July.

Evansville: Kevin Moore, James Reid, Matt Krug, Dustin Hopfner, Jake Obermeyer, Donnie Harris, Aaron Gens, Jesse Perrin, Nathan Martine, Matt Gens, Daniel Tetrault, Philippe Plante, Peter Sakaris, Colin Reddin, Jason Dale, Dylan Clarke, Mark Cody, Patrick Kennedy, Chris Forfar, Myles McCauley, Darick Ste-Marie, Matt Schepke, Josh Beaulieu, Kevin R. Baker, Todd Robinson, Nathan Moon.

Fort Wayne: Charlie Effinger, Daniel Maggio, Scott Kishel, Nick Wheeler, Mathieu Gagnon, Jeremy Gates, Tyler Butler, Jamie Milam, Eric Giosa, Matt Firman, Jean-Michel Rizk, John Dunbar, Chris Auger, Mike Hoban, Brandon Marino, Matt Syroczynski, Thomas Beauregard, Kaleigh Schrock, Brett Smith, Colin Chaulk.

The Journal-Gazette's Justin Cohn has a decent explanation of the protected lists.