It's Official...

Back in September I also titled a blog post "It's Official", only then I was announcing that Jordan Eberle was coming home. Now, I am extremely excited to say he's staying home! The WHL trade deadline was at 4 pm today and the Pats did not receive any unreal offers for either Jordan or Colten, and as a result they will finish their junior careers with the Pats!! Thank God!

The only trade that the Pats were involved with was sending Matt Delahey to the Bruins in exchange for another overage defencemen. It is hard to see Delly go as the Pats are the only team that he has ever known in the dub. It is a shame that he couldn't finish out his career here aswell, but hopefully he will do well with the Bruins. He is a great defencemen and extremely reliable, 9 times out of 10 you can sit easy when the puck is in his hands.

This is just my little speculation, but, as some of you may or may not have noticed (depending on how observent you are) Jordan Eberle did not have his usual "A" on his jersey last night. However, teammate Garret Mitchell, who has also worn an "A" before, but hasn't very much lately, had it on. Most people's responce to this would be "Well, Jordan has been gone a long time." But to those people I say, why did Colten still have an "A" on then? hmm. I believe that it could be a possibility that Jordan will get promoted to a "C" and Mitchy will have a permanent "A" now that Delahey, who also wore an "A", is no longer on the team. It may not happen, they all may remain just "A's" with no "C" but it's an interesting thought.

I sincerely hope that the Pats can pull out a play off spot, because if they don't GM Brent Parker will be taking even more criticism then he already is. As soon as it was announced that Jordan and Colten would remain with the team someone commented saying "Way to go Parker. Moron." another said that Parker is an "Executive fool". Both comments I found quite hilarious, but not exactly necessary. Guarenteed if the Pats make the playoffs the writers of these comments will be the first ones to jump right back on the Pats bandwagon, they may even be driving it.

I said in a previous post that I believed when Parker made the Ashton deal he threw away any thought of rebuiliding the team. The Pats beat one of the best teams in the conference last night so if they come together and Ashton-Eberle-Weal develope chemistry, which judging by the lines 9 point performance last night it looks like they have, then maybe (hopefully) the Pats can truly be a contender.

The Pats will truly be tested when they take on the unreal, juiced up, team on steroids in the Brandon Wheatkings on Wednesday at the Brandt Centre. Brandon also got Travis Hamonic on a trade today, which only adds more unrealness to the already unreal team. On the bright side, it does take a main part away from the Warriors, a team in which the Pats are in a playoff race with, and hopefully the Pats can capitalize on his absense from the team. I realize he wasn't there when we played them on Friday, but I am going to chalk that game up to an "off night". Good Luck on Wednesday Boys!