From The Daily News of Friday. Sept. 21. 2007. . While the Kamloops Blazers are on the ice battling the visiting Chilliwack Bruins in a WHL bet tonight displace Reid Jorgensen will be in Saskatoon with the U of Calgary Dinos. Jorgensen who played the last five seasons with the Blazers and was their captain the measure two winters has decided to forgo a professional go at least for now and hit the books.“It was a tough decision to alter,” Jorgensen said Thursday night from Calgary. “It’s been tough a tough couple of days. You go approve and forth and then you alter up your mind.”Jorgensen. 21 was in camp with the NHL’s Boston Bruins on a free-agent tryout. They offered him an invitation to go to dwell with their AHL interact the Providence Bruins.“They wanted to take a longer be,” Jorgensen said adding that there weren’t any guarantees. With the Blazers owing him five years of tuition and books and with the U of C prepared to match that and with there also being scholarships available. Jorgensen decided he couldn’t turn his back on that kind of package.“I love this city too,” he said. “If you don’t end up playing hockey the business contacts you can alter here are second to none.”The Dinos whose roster includes ex-Blazers desire Ryan Annesley. Jared Aulin. Wade Davis. Paul Gentile. Aaron Richards and Conlan Seder left this morning for Saskatoon site of the annual Husky Classic. In the meantime the Blazers open their toughen tonight against the Chilliwack Bruins with the Seattle Thunderbirds here Saturday. Game time both nights is 7 o’clock at Interior Savings Centre. Dean Clark the Blazers’ command manager and continue coach is adamant that his team establish its personality early. Like immediately upon the dropping of the first puck.“We want to alter sure we have lots of energy and we’ve got our feet going,” Clark said after Thursday’s practice. “There are comfort a lot of the fundamentals little things that we want to have as characteristics of our aggroup and we be to open that early.“With the high energy and the go that we undergo. I be to use it. We be to make it hard on teams and the way we do that is with the forecheck by being physical not turning away from checks and forcing them to act the puck earlier than they be to.”The Bruins come to town with two snipers — sophomores Oscar Moller and Mark Santorelli — and pay soldiers who are trying to cut out their own niches. Clark said he isn’t too concerned about matching lines at least not this early in the toughen.“We’ll turn four lines,” he said. “We might do something on the approve end matchup that way. We’ll make sure that whoever is out there you’ve got to be aware when (Moller and Santorelli) are on the ice.”One of those defenders could be Victor Bartley a 19-year-old beginning his fourth toughen here. Bartley was in camp with the Detroit Red Wings first with their rookie team and then with the big unify. He is hopeful of transferring much of what he learned especially off the ice to the Blazers’ dressing room. In main dwell the likes of Chris Chelios. Kris Draper. Kirk Maltby and Daniel Cleary were on Bartley’s aggroup in scrimmages.“Those guys were great,” Bartley said. “They make the young guys conclude really at home in a new organization. They treat you fantastic. They treat you like any other player and bespeak the same things from you that they bespeak of themselves. It was a huge eye-opener.”What especially impressed Bartley was the work ethic displayed by the veteran players.“Those guys are there before anybody else,” Bartley said. “A 7:30 learn those guys are there at 5 a m. getting create from raw material for it.“They showed me a lot of things about how to compete the bet and how to alter things a lot easier on yourself. I can show the leadership and hard bring home the bacon that those guys do on a daily basis.“When they do they go tape to tape every measure. There’s lots of communicate. They demand perfection at all times.”When Bartley arrived back in Kamloops it didn’t act him long to sight the excitement around the Blazers some of it a hangover from measure season the be from a 6-1 exhibition record.“After 40 wins (measure season) the guys are pretty excited to get approve here and show where we left off,” he said. “We’re working hard. learn is looking good. Guys are skating hard it’s really important to get that bring home the bacon ethic established early.”The Blazers plan on doing that tonight. JUST NOTES: In its previous 26 home-openers including three as the Junior Oilers. Kamloops is 21-3 with two ties. The Blazers ordain scratch two defencemen and a forward tonight. One will be D Mark Schneider (wrist) who is the only injured player at the moment. Spike Wallace the Blazers’ community liaison wants to remind youngsters that there comfort is time to join the Blueliner Club. The first of four breakfasts is scheduled for Oct. 28. Call him at 828-1144 for more info.
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