Tallying up the roster for the season preview, only six players are coming back from last season (Jon Francisco, Tim Kraus, David Walker, Chad Starling, C.J. Stretch and James McEwan). McEwan is starting the season on injured reserve, so you won’t see much of him for a little while; Stretch only played one game last season, so he isn’t especially familiar to fans yet.
So where are the familiar, non-retired names of seasons past?
From 2009-10:
Mike Egener
(Florida)
Andrew Martens
(Wichita Thunder/CHL)
Greg Hogeboom
(Texas Brahmas/CHL)
Peter Lenes
(Austria)
Sean O’Connor
(Germany)
Jon Rheault
(Abbotsford/AHL)
Luis Tremblay
(Saguenay/LNAH)
Mike Zacharias
(Idaho)
Dwight King (Manchester/AHL)
Michael Pelech (Manchester/AHL)
Geoff Walker (Wilkes-Barre/AHL)
From 2008-09:
Darren McMillan (Quad City/CHL)
P.J. Atherton (Victoria)
Jeff Zatkoff (Manchester/AHL)
Bud Holloway (Manchester/AHL)
Dusty Collins (San Antonio/AHL)
Linden Rowat (University of Alberta/CIS)