Greg Scott and Thomas Hickey were returned to the Seattle Thunderbirds both entering their 4th year with the team.
Greg Scott signed a contract with the Toronto Maple Leaves last summer and spent the last few weeks in training camp with the Maple Leaves before they released him back to Seattle. Last season Scott was second on the team in scoring with 38 goals and 37 assists for 75 points.
Thomas Hickey also just returned, having spent time with the Los Angeles Kings, and played in 2 pre-season games with them. Hickey has career totals of 21 goals and 102 assists for 123 points.
Seeing that they just announced these players returning in the last couple of hours/days, I would assume they did not participate in the first 6 games of the Thunderbirds season, which might help explain the 1 and 5 start. Now that these veterans return for their 4th year I would guess the game play should step up (and hopefully a few more wins).
From what I can gather, the Minor League system for Hockey works differently from that of Minor League baseball, which some of us might be more familiar with. Instead of a minor league team only carrying prospects from one team (ie. The Tacoma Rainier's only having prospects from the Mariners), the Minor League hockey teams can have players that were drafted from different NHL teams.
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