Fog, McBride Greet Alaska In Boise
December 18, 2009 - ECHL (ECHL)
Alaska Aces News Release
SEATTLE - The Alaska Aces have been assigned forward Brock McBride 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 Aces (11-12-2), meanwhile, looked forward to arriving in plenty of time for a showdown with the West Division-leading Steelheads, who ran their record to 20-5-2 with a 5-1 thumping of Utah Wednesday. But Thursday's travel proved to be difficult throughout, with an hour delay out of Anchorage followed by a connection from Seattle to Boise that was foiled when heavy fog in Boise forced the team plane to return to Seattle.
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.
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