More from Monday . . .

The Spokane Chiefs received all 16 first-place votes in the Western Western Major Junior Hockey Writers Association’s weekly poll ranking WHL teams.
The Chiefs are 19-3-1-2 with the league's highest winning percentage (.820). They take a six-game winning streak into a five-game Central Division tour that opens Friday in Calgary.
The rankings, showing placing, last week’s placing, team, first-place votes, and total points (22 points for a first-place vote, 21 for second, etc.):
1. (1) Spokane Chiefs (16) 352
2. (4) Tri-City Americans 330
3. (3) Vancouver Giants 316
4. (6) Calgary Hitmen 301
5. (2) Lethbridge Hurricanes 298
6. (9) Brandon Wheat Kings 261
7. (7) Regina Pats 253
8. (5) Swift Current Broncos 240
9. (13) Kootenay Ice 223
10. (8) Kelowna Rockets 206
11. (10) Medicine Hat Tigers 197
12. (11) Everett Silvertips 180
13. (14) Kamloops Blazers 16
14. (15) Moose Jaw Warriors 134
15. (12) Chilliwack Bruins 136
16. (16) Seattle Thunderbirds 123
T17. (18) Edmonton Oil Kings 84
T17. (17) Prince Albert Raiders 84
19. (T20) Saskatoon Blades 69
20. (19) Prince George Cougars 51
21. (T20) Red Deer Rebels 34
22. (22) Portland Winter Hawks 16
(Participating: Everett Herald, Seattle Times, Spokane Spokesman-Review, Tri-City Herald, Kamloops Daily News, Kelowna Daily Courier, Kelowna Capital News, Calgary Sun, Red Deer Advocate, Swift Current Prairie Post, Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Prince Albert Daily Herald, Brandon Sun, Prince George Citizen, Edmonton Sun, Chilliwack Progress.)

Former Medicine Hat Tigers D Dan Idema has won the B.C. Lottery Corporation’s B.C. Poker Championship, an event that wrapped up Sunday at River Rock Casino Resort in Richmond. Idema, who is from Tsawwassen, B.C., outlasted 643 players to walk away with top prize of $402,500. “I caught some major breaks in this tournament and I was fortunate enough to win,” Idema, who ended up with pocket kings as his winning hand, said in a BCLC release. “It’s been a great experience. I never expected to make it this far.” Idema spent three seasons (2001-04) with the Tigers. . . .

The Lethbridge Hurricanes have dealt F Josh Gionfriddo, 18, to the Kootenay Ice for a 2009 seventh-round bantam draft pick. That selection originally had been traded to the Ice for D Paul MacDonald. . . . Gionfriddo, from Colorado Springs, Colo., had one assist in and 18 penalty minutes in 13 games with the Hurricanes. . . . Jeff Bromley of the Kootenay NewsAdvertiser reports: "The move also coincides with the exit of F Travis Gorman, 18, who left the
Ice of his own accord after being acquired from the Tri-City Americans last week. There's been no word on whether the 2009 sixth-round bantam pick that was dealt to the Americans for Gorman will revert back to the club."