Mini done for season / DeRouville In
February 28th, 2007Looks like Mike Minard is done for the year. The goalie who helped lead the Giants to the league title last season has had his fair share of struggles this year and it started rumours throughout the fans that it could be down to a long standing injury. The teams line is that the injury was picked up in Edinburgh on Sunday night but many will feel the injury is something that’s been lingering for a while now. At the end of the day, you dont go from being one of the leagues best to letting in 5 and 6 goals a game. Whether Mini will be back next year remains to be seen, but should he get healthy and fighting fit then few will argue against looking to re-signing him. Cheers Mini!!
As for Mini’s replacement, that comes in the form of Phillippe DeRouville who has just finished his season in Italy with his team being knocked out of the playoffs. DeRouville played as a team-mate with Ed Courtenay in 2000-01 at the Ayr Scottish Eagles. He was a 5th round pick of the Pittsburgh Penguins and played three games in the show. All being well he should ice tomorrow night in Manchester.
You’re welcome Phillippe, hopefully you can help us turn things around. Now just to hurry up and get Huppe back on the ice.
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March 1st, 2007 at 12:50 pm
A lot of unfair blame has been placed at Minis door this season, he has made some howlers, but when all is said and done, if you leave a goalie out to dry as often as our D has left mini out to dry then he cant stop everything.
Shows how much he cares about the giants that he had torn a muscle in his arm and still played the game, rather than taking the easy route and tell Ed he couldnt play on, i also think that he was carrying another injury (probably a leg injury) from before Christmas but couldnt get the rest because our back up is not considered good enough to play one game (to give mini a rest)
Good luck mini, hope you recover from your injury quickly and are back on the ice either for the giants or another team.