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DU Recruit Ostrow Seriously Injuried

(left) DU recruit Kyle Ostrow leads the Nainamo Clippers in scoring this season with 23 goals and 44 assists in 43 games

Nanaimo, BC - Kyle Ostrow the skilled center and a prize recruit in DU's 2007 Recruiting Class has been injured for the second time in less than three weeks. The BCHL's Nanaimo Clippers offensive spark plug, suffered an undisclosed upper body injury last Friday and will probably be out for the rest of the regular season.

The DU coaching staff must be especially nervous as concussions have already ended the career of DU recruit Dan Comrie a little over a month ago.
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Ostrow, who returned to the Clippers' lineup on Thursday from a concussion with a three-goal, one assist effort in Nanaimo's 4-2 win in Alberni, was injured in the first period of the Clippers' 5-4 overtime loss to the Chiefs at Nanaimo's Frank Crane Arena.
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The Calgary native, who missed four games before returning to the lineup, was flattened from behind by Langley's Kyle Nason.
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Nason received no penalty on the play from referee Tyler Fraser, fuelling a series of skirmishes and chippy play the rest of the game.

Nason hit Ostrow, who was in a vulnerable situation, said Clippers head coach/GM Bill Bestwick.

"He's been the best player on the ice since his return and he clearly was the victim of a desperate player (Nason) who wants to make a name for himself," said Bestwick, of Ostrow. "He's a reckless player who took advantage of a situation. It's the checking player's responsibility when a player has his back to him, to descretion and caution.

"That's a classic example why those penalties are in the game. It's an absolute mystery how there was no penalty on the play."

"Ostrow is a big-minute and big-game player, so with him being out we have some tough shoes to fill," said Clippers assistant coach Mike Beharrell, who was working the bench on Sunday while Bill Bestwick served the first half of a two-game suspension. "(Bedard, Mazzei and Goodman) really stepped up tonight. That may have been the best game I've seen Bedard play."