REGINA PATS - GETTING REINFORCEMENTS AT THE RIGHT TIME

Taken from Greg Harder blog - Slap Shots:

Pats getting reinforcements at the right time

By Greg Harder Sunday, September, 20, 2009

After losing their first two games of the regular season, things are all of a sudden looking up for the Regina Pats.


The WHL club will have a drastically different look on the back end for Wednesday’s rematch with the Saskatoon Blades due to the return of NHL prospects Matt Delahey (New Jersey) (Photo: left) and Colten Teubert (Los Angeles) (Photo: Right).

The Pats learned Saturday that Delahey was coming back, then received more good news Sunday after it was announced that Teubert was among several cuts made by the Kings. The fact that Teubert is on his way back is no surprise, but it wasn’t supposed to happen this soon. A first-round pick (13th overall) in the 2008 NHL entry draft, it was generally believed that L.A. would take a longer look at Teubert — perhaps giving him a chance to play a few games — before returning him to the junior ranks. As it turned out, he played just one exhibition game (a split squad contest against the Phoenix Coyotes) and saw only 11 minutes of icetime. Given his short stay in L.A., the Pats will obviously be hoping Teubert comes back in the right frame of mind and takes the approach that he has something to prove.

Teubert’s return leaves Jordan Eberle as the Pats’ lone remaining absentee. Eberle, by all reports, is having a great camp with Edmonton. He’s playing his third exhibition game tonight for the Oilers, who are taking on the New York Islanders in Saskatoon.

Make no mistake, Eberle will be back in Regina this season - it's just a matter of when. (I, for one, Ron "Scoreboard" Johnston, will not jump to conclussions. He just may make the Oilers line-up. He is having an excellent camp. See Rod Pedersen.blog story below:) If the Pats were really lucky, the Oilers would take advantage of their close proximity to Regina and send him straight home after tonight’s game in Saskatoon.

The Pats certainly wouldn’t have minded picking him up.