Wednesday is over

Over at Dub Hub, Steve Ewen of the Vancouver Province is reporting that Giants D Neil Manning (broken wrist) won’t need surgery. He — Manning, not Ewen — has seen a specialist and the wrist seems to be healing just fine. Manning, 16, is expected to be out another three weeks. He was injured Oct. 5 in a game against the Chilliwack Bruins. . . .

WEDNESDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS
In Brandon, the Wheat Kings’ rookie line of Brayden Schenn, Matt Calvert and Scott Glennie accounted for seven points in a 6-1 victory over the Red Deer Rebels. Calvert scored twice, Schenn had his first WHL goal and two assists, and Glennie added a goal and an assist. . . . Schenn is the younger brother of Kelowna Rockets D Luke Schenn. . . . C Matt Lowry had a goal for Brandon, running his points streak to seven games. He has 13 points during that stretch. . . . D Mark Louis, dealt by Brandon to Red Deer at the 20-year-old deadline last week, scored for the Rebels. . . . G Morgan Clark made 41 stops for Red Deer, while Brandon’s Joe Caligiuri made only 14 saves. . . . Brandon improved to 7-2-0-0, while Red Deer, which was playing its fifth road game in six nights, is 4-7-2-0. . . .

In Prince Albert, G Real Cyr, 20, making his last appearance in front of friends and family, turned aside 31 shots to lead the Cougars to a 3-1 victory over the Raiders. Cyr is from Victoire, a community northwest of Prince Albert. He also played for midget AAA Raiders before moving on to the WHL. . . . The Cougars (4-7-0-0) are 3-1 on their six-game swing through the East Division. . . . C Alex Poulter, who was acquired in an offseason deal with the Red Deer Rebels, scored twice for Prince George, the second into an empty net. He has six goals this season. . . . D Tomas Voracek gave the Raiders a 1-0 lead at 6:38 of the first period, only to have Poulter tie it on a power play with three seconds left in the period. . . . C Jan Kupec, in his second game back from injury, added his first goal for the Cougars. . . . “I was trying not to think about it before the game, or during, but after it’s over now I can soak up all the support I was getting from relatives and fans back home,” Cyr told Prince George Citizen sports editor Jim Swanson. “They all bought their own tickets, so I’m not broke. I might have to buy some people a coffee or a beer in the summer.” . . . Added P.G. head coach Drew Schoneck: “If you were a thief, you’d have quite a time in Victoire because I think the whole town was here for this game.” . . . Kupec came back into the game despite being crunched by P.A. D Mike Gauthier and needing medical attention early in the first period. Schoneck, perhaps auditioning for a spot with Leno or Letterman, told Swanson: “Jan had the puck coming down the right-wing wall and made a tactical error in cutting to the middle. One of their bigger defencemen made him pay — it was a yard sale, and he had a cut lip that required stitches. (Trainer Chris Linder) took him to the room and put Humpty Dumpty together again. (Kupec) came back and played well, scored the game-winner for us, and that shows a lot of character. He
could‚ve shut it down and taken the rest of the game off — or the rest of
the month, for that matter. He showed big guts in coming back. Instead of
folding the tent, he put the poles back up and kept camping.” . . .

In Regina, the Pats broke a 2-2 tie with two early third-period power-play goals and beat the Lethbridge Hurricanes, 4-3. . . . F Jordan Eberle, with his 10th goal of the season, and F Matt Strueby, with his first, scored power-play goals at 1:10 and 1:40 of the third. . . . D Mitch Versteeg had taken a major penalty for charging at 18:35 of the second period. . . . C Tim Kraus had a first-period PP goal for Regina (8-4-0-0), which was 4-for-4 with the man advantage. Lethbridge, which has lost four straight to fall to 4-7-1-0, was 1-for-7. . . . Regina’s power play went into last weekend ranked No. 1 in the WHL and then went 1-for-17 in three games. After going 4-for-4, it is back in the No. slot. . . . D Nick Ross drew three assists for Regina. . . . LW Mike Wuchterl had a penalty-shot goal for Lethbridge. . . .

In Chilliwack, the Bruins beat Seattle 6-2, handing the Thunderbirds their first regulation-time loss of the season. . . . Seattle (4-1-1-1) is the last team to lose in regulation time. . . . Oscar Moller scored three times for Chillwack (8-3-0-0), his second, a power-play score at 14:55 of the first period, sending G Riku Helenius to the bench in favour of Jacob DeSerres. Helenius saw 17 shots in just over half a period. Chilliwack held a 19-4 edge in first-period shots, 36-9 after two and 50-15 on the game. . . . C Jeremy Boyer had one of Seattle’s goals. He has scored in each of his side’s last three games. . . . Seattle D Thomas Hickey assisted on Boyer’s goal and is on a seven-game points streak. . . . Chilliwack G Matt Esposito stopped Seattle’s Isak Quakenbush on a third-period penalty shot. . . . Chilliwack was 3-for-8 on the PP; Seattle was 1-for-11. . . . Chilliwack moved back into a tie with idle Vancouver (7-1-1-1) atop the B.C. Division.