NLL: Calgary to Dress Youngest Player This Year
from press release
CALGARY, AB – The Calgary Roughnecks return
home this Saturday (Jan. 23) to face off against the Washington
Stealth. Game time is 7:30 p.m. MST.
Twenty-year-old forward Carlton Schuss will suit up for the match,
making him the youngest player to dress for a Roughnecks game this
season. The native of Richmond, BC tallied 75 points last year,
including 37 goals and 38 assists in 20 games with the Delta
Islanders of the BCJALL last year. He also racked up 107 penalty
minutes in that time.
Roughnecks President and General Manager Brad Banister is excited
to see Schuss rip it up on the turf. He hopes Schuss and the rest
of the Riggers will draw a bigger crowd to Saturday night’s
game.
“My goal is to get 10,000 fans to the game on
Saturday,” said Banister. “We are the second lowest
team for attendance in the league right now. That is disappointing,
especially for a team that worked so hard to win the
Champion’s Cup for its fans last year. I challenge Calgarians
to step up and come out to the Saddledome.”
The Roughnecks currently average 8,100 people per game, while
teams such as the Buffalo Bandits and Colorado Mammoth average well
over 15,000. In Calgary, the Flames average 19,000 and the Hitmen
9,000. Drawing a crowd of 10,000 would land the Riggers in the
middle.
The Roughnecks were 2-0 against the Stealth (formerly the San Jose
Stealth) in regular season action last year. The Riggers also faced
the Stealth in the 2009 Western Division playoffs, defeating them
with a whopping 17-5 victory.
