Lightning recall unpronounceable players

by James Mirtle on Dec 2, 2008 2:22 PM CST Comment 5 comments

The Tampa Bay Lightning have recalled center Paul Szczechura (sha-HER-uh) and left wing Radek Smolenak (SMOH-leh-nak) from Norfolk of the American Hockey League, it was announced by Executive Vice President & General Manager Brian Lawton.

Szczechura, 23, leads Norfolk in scoring this season with 11 goals and 24 points in 23 games. A 5-foot-11, 190-pound native of Brantford, Ontario, Szczechura was signed as a free agent by the Lightning on April 24, 2008. He played four collegiate seasons at Western Michigan from 2003-04 through 2006-07, recording 44 goals, 86 assists and 107 penalty minutes in 153 games. He was voted the CCHA’s smartest player in 2005-06 in the annual captain’s poll.

Szczechura played his first full AHL season in 2007-08 splitting the season between Iowa and Norfolk. In 24 games with the Admirals he tallied 14 goals and 26 points after managing only two goals and five points in 29 games with Iowa.

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Needs more Joel Prpic.

Pension Plan Puppets*
* Blog contains less than 2% puppet content by weight.

by Chemmy on Dec 2, 2008 3:09 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

And Tony Hrkac!

by marky narc on Dec 2, 2008 7:56 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

What about Dave McLlwain?

by Fred Poulin on Dec 3, 2008 12:50 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Reijo Ruotsalainen-haters.

by RobQ on Dec 3, 2008 5:19 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Slavic language lesson of the day

Szcz is one character in Cyrillic, and pretty much pronounced all together at once. It’s one of those ones you have to hear to get the subtleties of, but just treat it as a “sh” for the purposes of pronunciation.

by Doogie2K on Dec 8, 2008 6:33 PM CST reply actions 0 recs