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  Annie Fowler was born and raised in Eastern Oregon and graduated from Southern Oregon University in 1988 with degrees in communication and journalism. She has been at the Herald since March of 2000 and began covering the Tri-City Americans in 2002. She still enjoys a good game of football, but these days she gets her fill by watching her son play for Southridge High School. |
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Former Kelowna coach Marc Habscheid has been hired to coach the woeful Chilliwack Bruins. He also will be the team's GM after owner Darryl Porter cleaned house last season.
While Habscheid is a top-notch coach, the Bruins are a team on a downward spiral. You can add all the spit and polish to a klunker, and it's still a klunker.
The Bruins have seen so-so ticket sales during the offseason and will be fighting for fans with an AHL team in nearby Abbotsford, as the Calgary Flames moved their minor league affiliate team to the Fraser Valley in March.
The Bruins are fortunate to land Habscheid, but he alone isn't enough to entice top prospect Drew Shore of Englewood, Colo., to join the team. The Bruins' second-round WHL bantam pick in 2006 has spent the last two seasons in Michigan with the U.S. National Team Development Program and is headed to Denver University -- the same team from which the Americans pried T.J. Fast away. He's likely never to wear a Bruins uniform.
In the midst of all the hoopla Wednesday in Chilliwack, Porter was quoted as saying, "When you dissect what we said our intentions were, we said we were going to make a long-term commitment to Chilliwack and we were going to make a commitment to winning."
Sound familiar, Ams fans? Remember the outcome?
For the sake of the players, I hope Habscheid can turn the Bruins around.
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