Sunday notes . . .

There continue to be rumours that former Kamloops Blazers/Kelowna Rockets head coach Marc Habscheid will end up on the coaching staff of the NHL’s Phoenix Coyotes. Wayne Gretzky, the head coach in Phoenix, apparently isn’t hoping to have Rick Tocchet back on his staff, but the NHL hasn’t yet ruled on Tocchet’s immediate future after his recent gambling-related conviction. Habscheid spent last season as the associate head coach of the Boston Bruins. He and head coach Dave Lewis were fired earlier this summer. Lewis also is believed to be talking with an NHL team about a coaching position.

LW Judd Blackwater, 20, had two goals and two assists Sunday to lead Team Red to a 10-5 victory over Team White in the Spokane Chiefs’ camp-ending intrasquad game. D Jared Cowen, the first overall pick in the 2006 bantam draft, had two assists for Team Red. . . . Earlier in camp, Austrian D Stefan Ulmer, a pick in the 2007 import draft, lost seven teeth after taking a hit of some sort. He had just changed from a full facemask to a visor.

The Medicine Hat Tigers concluded their rookie camp and held over 11 players for main camp which will open Friday. In the meantime, the Tigers took 38 players into the Cypress Hills for a retreat. Assuming they find their way back out of the woods, they’ll return to the Gas City for light scrimmages Wednesday and Thursday and fitness testing before getting into main camp.

In Prince George, Team White beat Team Black 4-1 in the Cougars’ intrasquad game. Matthew Frydrysek, Jacob Verheyden, who had two scraps, Brad Rihela and veteran Curtis Patterson, into an empty net, scored for Team White. Colin Haas, a Texan from the midget Dallas Stars, counted for Team Black. After the game, the Cougars cut to 31 players, including three 1992s who aren’t eligible to play full-time this season. . . . Jim Swanson, the Prince George Citizen’s sports editor, reports that 17-year-old Joel Danyluk, 17, will back up veteran G Real Cyr, 20, as they are the only two goaltenders left in camp. Danyluk is from the midget AAA Yorkton, Sask., Harvest. Prior to Sunday’s intrasquad game, the Cougars released three goaltenders — Wade Loewen, 18, from Winnipeg; Wade Salmon, 15, from Red Deer, and Taylor Nielsen, 17, from Abbotsford. . . . The Cougars already have lost two players to concussions. LW Cameron McWilliam, 17, went home to Vancouver after absorbing a hit on Saturday, while sophomore LW Jordie Deagle also is out with a concussion.

The Vancouver Province’s Steve Ewen reports that Vancouver Giants LW Garet Hunt spent Saturday night competing in an International Natural Bodybuilding Association of Canada event. All Hunt did was win the junior men’s division. Hunt, 20, suffered a badly broken leg in February and now you know how hard he has worked in an attempt to get back into action.

The Regina Leader-Post’s Greg Harder reports that the Regina Pats are on the verge of signing their first four selections from the 2007 bantam draft — C Dominick Favreau (13th overall), LW Graham Hood (23rd), D Justin Slobozian (49th) and C Jordan Weal (79th). The quartet was in Regina’s rookie camp and the four were among the 20 players held over for main camp.

In Red Deer, the Rebels’ intrasquad game was decided in a shootout, with Team White beating Team Black, 5-4. The game also featured three scraps. F Connor Redmond, Red Deer’s first pick in the 2007 bantam draft, had the Gordie Howe hat trick (goal, assist, fight) for Team Black, which also got goals from Adam Kambeitz, Keyler Bruce and Dallas Jackson. Willie Coetzee, Joel Lowry, Justin Moir and Josh Cowen counted for Team White, which got the shootout winner from Coetzee.

Team Black beat Team Gold 7-4 in the Chilliwack Bruins’ intrasquad game Sunday. RW Oscar Moller led the winners with two goals and two assists, while linemate C Mark Santorelli had a goal and two helpers. David Robinson, Brayden Metz, Dylen McKinley and Cole Gelley also scored for the winners. Matt Meropoulis, who had three goals last season, scored twice for the gold guys, with Ryan Howse and Jadon Potter getting the others. . . . The Bruins kept veteran defencemen Kevin Boutilier, Dylan Chapman, Nick Holden and Matthew McCue, along with winger Ken Petkau, out of the game. . . . Chilliwack D Cam Stevens (broken leg) is out at least eight weeks. He was injured in offseason training.

The Everett Silvertips will have more than 40 players in main camp when it takes to the ice today. That includes Russian C Vitali Karamnov, who is in Everett although he will attend the Edmonton Oilers camp on a free-agent tryout deal. Included in that total are 14 players held over from rookie camp.