Equipment trainer Tony DaCosta basically spent the night at Scotiabank Place cleaning equipment and taking inventory of what assistants Brent Proulx and Matt Benz needed to bring up from Minnesota. The equipment arrived in Ottawa at 9 a.m., but it's a mess.
Nine players' equipment was completely fine, 12 lost just about everything in yesterday's truck fire. Here's some pictures from my Twitter accounthere and here of the truck.
The team lost some medical supplies, but the video equipment was saved. Anton Khudobin has been called up and could conceivably start, Chuck Fletcher said, if Niklas Backstrom or Josh Harding don't feel comfortable. I'd tend to doubt this, but we'll see.
A lot of the coaches stuff was burned also, so Todd Richards is wearing extra skates from Marek Zidlicky today and Bob Mason is wearing Guillaume Latendresse's extra skates.
Here's an inventory, and some are a bit comical:
Zidlicky-Good
Johnsson-Good
Zanon-Lost a ton, but not his knee brace
Stoner-Skates and pants only saved
Koivu-Everything lost but skates
Kobasew-Good
Havlat--Everything lost, but they found a set of skates he used to wear in Chicago and put on a new blade
Brunette-Good
Ebbett-Everything gone
Miettinen-Everything gone
Clutterbuck-Everything gone
Brodziak-Good
Boogaard-Good
Belanger-Good
Hnidy--Everything gone, and two left skates burned
Scott-Everything gone
Earl-Everything gone
Backstrom-Everything gone
Harding-Everything gone
Sheppard--Everything gone, except, get this, his contacts and a mouthguard
Schultz-Everything gone, had skates picked up at his house that he wears in pond hockey and he went to Play It Again sports to buy shoulder pads he likes
Latendresse-Good
Also, the flu is circulating again, and I can attest because I had to stay in Montreal yesterday sick as a dog. Robbie Earl is out tonight. Eric Belanger is questionable. Andrew Ebbett will have to return, and if Belanger can't play, John Scott would have to play forward.
More later.