On the first day of training camp during the latter part of the Checkers’ ECHL era, a New York Rangers prospect named David Urquhart heard the locker room chatter and was confused. Finally, he approached one of the team’s goalies.
The Checkers’ blue line will be looking very different as the team heads down the home stretch of the season, with several key players either out with injury or in Carolina for the remainder of the year.
As far as the Checkers are concerned, it was a relatively quiet period leading up to the trade deadline in terms of players moving on to or coming in from other organizations. Instead, it was injuries independent of the annual NHL frenzy that caused a shakeup.
