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The Skipjacks, who will have two new faces on the ice tonight, likely will add another player today -- one you might have seen on television during the Winter Olympics.The Washington Capitals are expected to sign defenseman Brad Schlegel, who played for the Canadian silver-medal team in Albertville, France.Schlegel, 23, was the eighth draft choice of the Capitals in 1988. A 5-foot-10, 180-pound defenseman from Kitchener, Ontario, he played for Team Canada the past four years. He had two goals and three assists in the Olympics.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- The goalies dress in a room that is even smaller than the cramped visitors' dressing room in the bowels of the Rochester War Memorial.That gave Olaf Kolzig, who had the night off, plenty of opportunity to commiserate with Jim Hrivnak, the losing goalie in the Baltimore Skipjacks' 6-4 loss to the Rochester Americans last night."I told him that was the most unbelievable period of hockey I've ever seen," said Kolzig.Hrivnak was more concerned with the Southern Division leaders' fourth consecutive loss, to the last-place team no less, than with his ill fortune.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- The goalies dress in a room that is even smaller than the cramped visitors' dressing room in the bowels of the Rochester War Memorial.That gave Olaf Kolzig, who had the night off, plenty of opportunity to commiserate with Jim Hrivnak, the losing goalie in the Skipjacks' 6-4 setback to the Rochester Americans last night."I told him that was the most unbelievable period of hockey I've ever seen," said Kolzig.Hrivnak was more concerned with the Southern Division leaders' fourth consecutive loss, to the last-place team no less, than with his ill fortune.

Ever since he came to the Skipjacks in an offseason trade with Winnipeg, center Simon Wheeldon has preached the power of the power play.Never was its strength more evident than in last night's 5-2 win over the Halifax Citadels at the Arena.The Jacks (7-4-1) scored on three of their first five power plays in the opening period, with the line of John Purves, Craig Duncanson and Wheeldon landing all of the goals."When the specialty units are clicking like that, you win games," said Wheeldon, who has seven goals, five with the extra attacker.