My Best Guess On Imbeault And Stefanishion

Center Alexandre Imbeault and winger Matt Stefanishion, who helped the Alaska Aces to Game 7 of the Kelly Cup Finals last spring, both were released by the American Hockey League's Manitoba Moose today.

Neither player was assigned to Manitoba's ECHL affiliate, the Victoria Salmon Kings -- for instance, former Aces center Olivier Filion, who was with Victoria last season was shipped there by the Moose today -- so it makes you wonder where they are heading.

This is just a guess, a sort of semi-educated guess -- look, I'm just a hockey writer not a mind-reader -- but I would not be surprised if either guy ended up with the Aces again. That would give them a center of first-line capability (Imbeault) and a scoring winger who could actually play defense on the power play because of his wicked shot from the point (Stefanishion).

Stay tuned.