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Longie traded by Bismarck Bobcats

By Matthew Semisch

12/30/2014

The Bismarck Bobcats, a junior team in the North American Hockey League, opened their 2014-15 season with two former high school standouts from Bottineau-Rugby.

Now, though, only one of the pair skates in black and gold.
Cody Longie joined the Bobcats at the start of this season. Last week, however, he was traded to the Steinbach Pistons of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League.

In an e-mail sent to the Courant, a Bobcats spokesman said Longie was traded to Steinbach for future considerations.
His most previous port of call prior to Bismarck was Fargo, where he appeared in 42 games in 2013-14 for the Fargo Force of the United States Hockey League.

Longie’s arrival in Bismarck was brought about after he was released by Fargo, was drafted this summer by the NAHL’s Kenai River (Alaska) Brown Bears and was traded to the Bobcats.

He was reunited in Bismarck with former B-R teammate Harrison Aide. Aide, who was named the top high school boys’ hockey player in North Dakota last season, also played two games for the Bobcats late last season.

Aide had originally committed to play this season for the MJHL’s Virden Oil Capitals. A change of heart, however, led the former B-R forward to return to Bismarck.

He has enjoyed a relatively successful first half of the 2014-15 season and is currently the Bobcats’ fifth-highest scorer.

Through 30 games, Aide has picked up six goals and 10 assists for 16 points.

Longie struggled by comparison in his time in North Dakota’s capital city. The defenseman posted one goal and eight assists in 26 games with Bismarck, but the Bobcats chose to release him.

He is now set to join Steinbach, which currently sits in fourth place in the MJHL.

Longie was expected to begin practicing with Steinbach on Monday. He will make his playing debut for the Pistons when they visit the Winkler Flyers on Wednesday.