Chance Creger Minotauros Intermission Interview

Chance Creger Mentioned in Minot Daily News

Reason to smile for Tauros

October 1, 2012
By TIM CHAPMAN - Sports Editor (tchapman@minotdailynews.com)Minot Daily News

"Ruck and Oliver emphasized smart play leading to the win and both pointed to defenseman Chance Creger for avoiding a fight in the second period.

"He got mauled physically and didn't retaliate," Ruck said.

Creger took punches from Fresno's Karl Anderson, who was ejected for fighting on top of a unsportsmanlike conduct penalty."

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Chance Creger transition to the Minotauros

Things have been going great here in Minot. I am all settled in my new billet house with Kristy Sinner and Dan Coopman. Along with my new roommate as of today, Travis Maxwell who we have just acquired in a trade from Corpus Christi. The team has really accepted me well into the group. Recent trades have made it easier being one of many "new guys" on the team. I have only played two games with the Minotauros thus far, both of which have been very exciting to say the least. In my first game against Wenatchee, who is considered to be one of the top contenders in the NAHL, I had a very good showing defensively along with a fight in a line brawl late in the second period. I received a two game suspension for the fight and returned to the line up last weekend against Fresno. In another exciting game, I was able to be extremely physical at times which actually lead to me being jumped late in the second period. I considered the the fight to be extremely cheap on the part of Karl Anderson. He declined the offer to square up a shift before and instead taking the option to sucker me from behind. All is well in the end however, the team was rewarded handsomely with a seven minute power play. The final score in that game would be 2-1 in a shootout win.

We will be taking on Aberdeen the next two weekends on Oct 12, 13, 19 and 20!