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So . . . what’s up with Spokane Chiefs F Kyle Beach?
Beach suffered a leg injury — it apparently is above the right knee — during a 5-4 victory over the host Tri-City Americans on Saturday night and sat out Sunday’s 3-2 victory over the visiting Everett Silvertips.
So . . . will he be ready to open the playoffs Saturday in Portland against the Winterhawks.
“He’s hurt and he’s real sore and we’ll be re-evaluating on Wednesday,” Spokane head coach Hardy Sauter told Doyle Potenteau of the Kelowna Daily Courier. “We should know more after the doctor sees him then.”
Beach was hurt on a play that resulted in a clipping major and a game misconduct to Tri-City D Tyler Schmidt.
“It was one of those (plays) where (Beach) went to go to his left and he was gonna get by Schmidt,” Sauter told Potenteau, “and they went leg to leg. The good news is that there’s no ligament damage. The bad news is that it’s probably as bad as it could have been without that.”
As for whether Beach will play Saturday, Sauter said he is “really, really hoping he can manage to play Saturday, but, again, I won’t have any idea until Wednesday.”

I’ll be sure to post an update in the next few days if I hear anything. I think we can all agree that without Beach, the chance of Spokane making it past Portland in the first round are seriously diminished.

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