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The Medicine Hat Tigers finally got around to telling the world that associate head coach Shaun Clouston has signed a long-term contract. The Tigers, who are more secretive than the CIA, didn’t release any terms.

Cory Clouston, Shaun’s younger brother (by two years), will be introduced Thursday as the head coach of the AHL’s Binghamton Senators. The Kootenay Ice announced Cory’s resignation Tuesday morning; you read it first right here on Sunday night. The Ice also is looking for an assistant coach because Brad Lauer resigned to accept an offer as GM/head coach of the BCHL’s Alberni Valley Bulldogs. No, Lauer won’t be reversing his field and becoming the Ice’s next head coach.

D Dylan Yeo, the captain of the Calgary Hitmen last season, has signed with the AHL’s Manitoba Moose. Dylan used up his WHL eligibility last season. . . . C Derek LeBlanc, who also played as a 20-year-old with the Hitmen last season, has signed a free-agent tryout deal with the Edmonton Oilers. . . . Two Prince Albert Raiders defencemen have signed pro tryouts. Mike Gauthier, 20, will go to camp with the Toronto Maple Leafs, while Jeff May, 20, will be in camp with the Minnesota Wild.

The BCHL’s Penticton Vees have signed Fred Harbinson, a 35-year-old native of Calgary, as their vice-president of hockey operations and head coach. Harbinson replaces Bruno Campese, who left after three seasons to become head coach in Prince Albert. Harbison spent the last five seasons as an assistant coach at St. Cloud, Minn., State.

Portland Winter Hawks C Tristan King and Kelowna Rockets D Tyler Myers are on the U.S. under-18 team roster for the Ivan Hlinka Memorial tournament that is to be played next month in Czech Republic and Slovakia. King is from Elk River, Minn. Myers, whose family lives near Calgary, was born in Texas. . . . Hockey Canada will open a selection camp Aug. 4 for the team it will send to that tournament.

Former WHL D Richie Regehr has left the Calgary Flames organization and signed with Frankfurt of Germany’s DEL, that country’s highest league.

RW Evan Pighin, 19, has decided to return to the BCHL’s Salmon Arm SilverBacks rather than join the Prince George Cougars, who acquired his rights from the Red Deer Rebels last month. Pighin had 41 points in 60 games with Salmon Arm in 2005-06. He spent last season with the Rebels and asked for a trade following the season. The Rebels sent Pighin and C Alex Poulter, 18, to the Cougars for a conditional 2008 bantam draft pick. The Red Deer Advocate reported the Rebels are to get a fourth-round pick if both players are in the league Oct. 10, a fifth-rounder if one still is around and a sixth-rounder if neither of them is in the league.

Tim Kehler has resigned as GM and head coach of the BCHL’s Trail Smoke Eaters, reportedly to accept an assistant coaching position with a WHL team, believed to be the Swift Current Broncos. The coach in Trail since October 2004, Kehler went 88-61-21 with the Smokies. He had signed a two-year deal in April.

F David Toews, who will be a senior at Shattuck-St. Mary’s, Minn., next season, has told the U of North Dakota that he will play for the Fighting Sioux starting in 2008-09. He is the younger brother of former UND star Jonathan Toews. David’s WHL rights are held by the Brandon Wheat Kings.

Brad Robson, a regional scout for the NHL’s Dallas Stars, is expected to be named assistant general manager of the Lethbridge Hurricanes. Robson, whose son Blake is a former WHL player, would fill the void created when Brad McEwen stepped aside as assistant GM and director of player personnel. McEwen is expected to surface in Medicine Hat’s front office. . . . Pat Siedlecki, the radio voice of the BCHL’s Nanaimo Clippers for five seasons, is moving to Lethbridge where he will call the Hurricanes’ games on CJOC-FM 94.1 The Lounge.

The Portland Winter Hawks have signed four of their 2007 bantam draft picks — LW Kyzen Loo, G Keith Hamilton and F Taylor Peters are recent signees, while first-round pick Brad Ross signed earlier. Loo, a second-round pick, is from Richmond, B.C., while Hamilton, another second-round pick, is from Kelowna. Peters, a fourth-round pick, is from South Delta, B.C. Ross is from Lethbridge.