• Where Are the Grads of the 2010-11 Robertson Cup Champion Owen Sound Attack

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  Jan 23
  The 2010-11 Owen Sound Attack won the Robertson Cup for the second time in franchise history but the first since the team relocated to Owen Sound from Guelph for the 1989-90 Ontario Hockey league season. The Guelph Platers were not only Robertson Cup victors in 1985-86 but were also crowned Memorial Cup champions.

  It’s also expected that a Robertson Cup championship team will be stripped of most of it’s players the following season as the team circulates through the junior hockey rebuilding cycle. However, the Attack have seen just nine players graduate to either pro hockey or higher education. Owen Sound is poised, once again, for a post season run, sitting in third in the Midwest Division and fifth in the Western Conference in 2011-12.

  Of the nine players moving up, one is currently in the National Hockey League. Five are playing in the North American pro leagues, two are at the university level in the CIS and two are in Europe.

  Ricards Berzins played just one game with the Owen Sound Attack in 2010-11 and that was it for his Ontario Hockey League career. Ricards is back in his hometown of Riga, Latvia playing for Prizma Latvia.

  Jesse Blacker is waiting to be the Toronto Maple Leafs next big thing on defense while playing for their AHL affiliate, the Toronto Marlies.

  Matt Stanisz went the university route and is playing for Carleton.

  Roman Berdnikov is playing in his hometown of Omsk, Russia as a member of Avangard Omsk of Russia’s KHL.

  Liam Heelis is in university down east, playing for Acadia.

  Rob Mignardi is playing for the AHL’s Manchester Monarchs on a professional try-out basis.

  Andrew Shaw has spent much of his season with the Rockford IceHogs of the AHL but is currently on the roster of the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks.

  Joey Hishon is waiting for his pro career to start. He is on the roster of the American Hockey League’s Lake Erie Monsters but has yet to play a game in 2011-12 due to injury.

  Garrett Wilson has split his season thus far with the Cincinnati Cyclones of the ECHL and the San Antonio Rampage of the AHL. Currently, he is with Cincinnati.

  A non-player that has moved on is head coach Mark Reeds. Reeds is currently the assistant coach of the NHL’s Ottawa Senators.

   
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