Saturday . . .

For some light Sunday reading, check out this -- www.thestar.com/Business/article/271086 -- from Saturday’s Toronto Star. . . . Someone in Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment leaked some financial documents to the Star and the result is some interesting reading. . . . I mean, selling ice from the Zamboni. Sheesh, Leafs fans really will buy anything Leafy. . . .

SATURDAY¹S HIGHLIGHTS
In Edmonton, the Swift Current Broncos skated to a 3-1 victory over the Oil Kings, handing the expansion side its sixth straight loss. . . . Edmonton G Alex Archibald stopped 36 shots. . . . The Broncos outshot the Oil Kings 39-24, including 24-11 over the first two periods. . . . Still, the game was scoreless heading into the third period. . . . The Oil Kings scored first when LW Karey Pieper got a PP goal at 4:14. . . . Broncos LW Eric Felde tied it with his ninth goal at 7:07 and C Zack Smith won it with his sixth at 13:36 on a power play. . . . RW Keegan Dansereau got his ninth into an empty net at 18:18 to put it on ice. . . . The Oil Kings (4-6-1-2), who play eight of their next nine on the road, have lost six in a row. . . . The Broncos now are 10-4-0-2. . . .

In Kelowna, rookie C Justin Maylan had two goals, but only one will count, as the Moose Jaw Warriors beat the Rockets 4-3 in a shootout. Maylan scored once in regulation time and added the winner in the circus. . . . While Maylan’s second goal won the game, it won’t count in his totals. Just another quirk in hockey these days. . . . The Rockets (5-7-1-1) have five losses in their last six games after a three-game winning streak. . . . The Warriors (8-3-3-1) have at least a point in 10 straight games. . . . What kind of night was it for Kelowna? The Rockets held period leads of 2-1 and 3-2, then led 2-0 and 3-2 in the shootout and still lost as Maylan scored the winner in Round 8. . . . Warriors C Jason Bast had two assists and now has 13 points, including nine assists, in a seven-game point streak. . . . Moose Jaw F Ryley Grantham had a goal, an assist, three minors and a scrap. . . . Kelowna D Luke Schenn sat out the first of a two-game suspension for a Friday night hit on Kamloops LW Shayne Wiebe, who is out with a concussion.

In Medicine Hat, the Tigers played in front of their 200th consecutive sellout of 4,006 fans and didn‘t disappoint in beating the Kootenay Ice, 4-1. . . . C Brennan Bosch, who was in the penalty box Friday when the Ice got the OT winner in a 2-1 victory in Cranbrook, had a goal and an assist for the Tigers. . . . G Tomas Vosvrda stopped 29 shots for the Tigers (11-3-2-0). . . . Medicine Hat LW Yashar Farmanara had a five-game goal streak snapped Friday. . . . Kootenay (6-9-2-0) went into Saturday’s gave having won three of four. . . . The Ice has been told that C Ryan Russell, 20, will be staying with the AHL’s Hamilton Bulldogs, an affiliate of the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens. The Ice had felt there was a chance Russell would be returned. . . . Ice C Ben Maxwell (thigh) is out indefinitely. . . .

In Portland, the Brandon Wheat Kings ended a five-game losing streak with a 4-2 victory over the Winter Hawks. . . . Brandon C Tyler Dittmer got his 12th goal into an empty net and has scored in seven of his last eight games. . . . The Winter Hawks fell to 2-12-0-0. . . . Portland’s Tyler Swystun got his seventh goal. He has seven of Portland’s 26 goals this season. . . . RW Matt Lowry, acquired from Medicine Hat prior to the season, scored his ninth goal for Brandon. He had 10 in 63 games with the Tigers last season. . . .

In Prince George, C Mark Santorelli had four assists and RW Oscar Moller scored three times as the Chilliwack Bruins dumped the Cougars, 7-2. . . . The Cougars (6-9-0-0) had beaten the Bruins 5-3 one night earlier for their fourth win in five games. . . . Moller has 12 goals in his last five games, including five in the two games in Prince George. . . . The Bruins are 10-4-1-0. . . . Chilliwack, which was 4-for-8 on the PP, led 2-0, only to have the Cougars tie it early in the second period. The Bruins then scored the game’s last five goals. . . . After Saturday’s games, Santorelli leads the scoring race with 27 points. He has a league-high 23 assists. . . . Moller has 15 goals, one fewer than Regina’s Jordan Eberle, who has 26 points. . . . Moller is third in the points derby, with 24. . . .

In Red Deer, the Rebels lost their sixth straight game -- they also have lost six in a row at home -- as they were beaten 4-3 by the Lethbridge Hurricanes. . . . The visitors, who have won four in a row, scored three first-period goals as the Rebels were shorthanded for 11 minutes of the period. . . . Red Deer tied the game in the third period but RW Luke Wiens won it by potting his own rebound with 6:34 to play. It was his first goal of the season. . . . Lethbridge is 8-7-1-0, while the Rebels fell to 4-10-3-0. . . . Red Deer head coach Brian Sutter told the Red Deer Advocate: “There were a lot of marginal calls and a lot of missed calls all over the ice.” . . . The referees who were stroked from Sutter’s Christmas card list? Adam Byblow and Ryan Bonnet. . . . Lethbridge was 1-for-8 on the PP; Red Deer was 0-for-4. . . .

In Regina, C Ryan McDonald scored three times as the Prince Albert Raiders dumped the Pats, 7-3. . . . McDonald, who scored once in the first period and twice in the second as the Raiders took a 4-1 lead, has 10 goals this season. . . . The Raiders (5-10-2-0) went in having lost eight of 10, including a 5-1 loss to the visiting Pats on Friday. . . . The Pats are 5-1-0-0 against the Raiders this season. Yes, they already have met six times. . . . Regina (12-5-0-0) had a five-game winning streak halted. . . . Regina C Tim Kraus had an assist to run a point streak to six games. . . . Regina C Jordan Eberle had two goals and an assist. . . . Prince Albert G Dustin Butler stopped 39 shots. . . .

In Spokane, the Chiefs put up their second shutout in three games as they beat the Seattle Thunderbirds, 2-0. . . . Spokane (10-2-1-1) has won seven in a row, its longest such streak since 1997-98. That also is tied for the third-longest winning streak in franchise history. . . . G Dustin Tokarski stopped 22 shots for his first shutout this season and the third of his career. . . . RW Curtis Kelner and D Jared Cowen had the goals. . . . The Thunderbirds, who had won their last two, slipped to 6-2-2-1. . . . The Chiefs are off to the best 14-game start in franchise history. . . .

In Kennewick, Wash., G Leland Irving stopped 42 shots to lead the Everett Silvertips to a 2-1 victory over the host Tri-City Americans, who had won their last 20 home regular-season games. . . . The Americans (12-4-0-0) had a five-game winning streak end. . . . Everett (8-6-0-0), which started the season 1-5-0-0, has won eight of its last 11. . . . D Chris de la Lande, a 17-year-old freshman from Winnipeg, had the winner at 16:37 of the second period when his shot beat G Chet Pickard after going off Tri-City D Jarrett Toll‘s stick. It was de la Lande’s first WHL goal. . . . There’s got to be some irony in a Winnipegger scoring the winning goal against the Americans, a team whose roster includes 11 players from the Manitoba capital. . . . Tri-City C Jason Reese had an assist and has seven points in his last three games. . . . Everett C Dan Gendur picked up an assist to run his point streak to eight games. He has 14 points over that stretch. . . . The Americans are at home to Vancouver on Friday in an early-season clash of titans. . . .

In Kamloops, RW Michal Repik had two goals, G Tyson Sexsmith made 25 saves and the Vancouver Giants beat the Blazers, 3-0. . . . Repik, who led all WHL playoff scorers last season, had two goals and an assist in the first period and now has 20 points in 16 games. . . . Sexsmith put up his WHL-leading third shutout this season and the 14th of his career. He is tied for 14th on the all-time list and, yes, the record (21) is within reach. That record is held by Bryan Bridges (Seattle-Kootenay, 2001-06), who played 213 games. Sexsmith, 18, has played in 80 games, which is 35 fewer than anyone above him on that list. . . The Blazers, who have scored the game’s first goal three times in 14 games, are 6-7-1-0. . . . The Giants (11-2-1-2) got another goal, his 11th, from captain Spencer Machacek. . . . One of the things I really, really love about the WHL is numbers like this: Last season, the Blazers were 6-2-0-0 against the Giants, who were 2-4-2-0 against the Blazers. . . . You figure it out. . . . Vancouver C Mike Reich needed stitches and was in a dentist’s chair by game’s end after being hit in the face by a clearing pass in the first period. . . . Kamloops LW Travis Dunstall took a handful of stitches below his lower lip after taking a puck in the mug late in the third period. . . . The Giants overnighted in Kamloops and will drive to Prince George on Sunday for a rare non-holiday Monday engagement with the Cougars.