Former Everett Silvertips C Damir Alic, 20, and his mates had quite a night Saturday. Alic plays for the Northern Pacific junior league’s Seattle Totems. They took a 20-1 record into a Saturday game against the Rogue Valley Wranglers, who were 0-21. . . . The Totems promptly put 23 big ones on the board in a 23-1 victory. . . . Alic enjoyed an eight-point night, including three goals. . . . The big gun, however, was Kyle Stoumbaugh, a 19-year-old centre from Puyallup, Wash. He had 10 points, including three goals, to run his league-leading point total to 65 in 22 games. . . . Seattle and Rogue Valley now have met four times, with the scores 23-1, 18-3, 5-1 and 13-1. . . . The 23-1 and 18-3 counts came on consecutive nights. . . .
The Red Deer Rebels have dealt D Zak Stebner, 17, to the Prince Albert Raiders for the rights to G David Aime, 18. Stebner had five assists in 24 games with the Rebels. He was a second-round selection in the 2005 bantam draft. Aime began the season with the Raiders but ended up with the BCHL’s Alberni Valley Bulldogs where he will remain, at least for now. . . . Stebner will provide the Raiders with some depth on the back end where Kyle Aschim (concussion) is out indefinitely and Ryan Button (virus) could miss three weeks. . . .
F Todd Kennedy, who has been with the BCHL’s Nanaimo Clippers, has joined the Regina Pats who are on a U.S. Division tour and meet the Winter Hawks in Portland on Tuesday. Kennedy, who is from Lillooet, B.C., has 10 points in 20 games with Nanaimo. Kennedy, 17, was a sixth-round draft pick of the Kamloops Blazers in 2005. . . .
SUNDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS
In Edmonton, the Oil Kings scored first but that was it as they fell 4-1 to the Seattle Thunderbirds. . . . It was Seattle’s last game, and first victory, on a Central Division swing on which it lost its first five games. . . . F Robin Figren, with his 11th, opened the scoring early in the first period. . . . F Greg Scott tied it for Seattle (9-9-3-1) on the PP at 13:51 of the first, and F Bud Holloway scored the eventual winner at 5:47 of the second. . . . The Thunderbirds were 2-for-8 on the PP; the Oil Kings were 0-for-3. . . . Seattle outshot its hosts, 49-26. . . . Edmonton (9-12-1-3) has lost five straight. . . . Edmonton head coach Steve Pleau was so unimpressed with his club’s play that he sent his players for a post-game run. . . .
In Vancouver, the Kelowna Rockets scored the game’s first three goals and the last two as they beat the Giants, 5-3. . . . The Rockets (13-7-2-2), who are 8-0-1-2 in their last 11 games, picked up five of a possible six points on the weekend. . . . D Luke Schenn, F Brady Leavold and F Colin Long had the visitors out front 3-0 by 7:38 of the second period. . . . The Giants got second-period goals from F Evander Kane and D Jonathan Blum, then tied it on F Michal Repik’s goal at 15:54 of the third period. . . . The Rockets won it on F Lucas Bloodoff’s ninth goal of the season on the PP at 17:49. He has nine goals, six on the PP. . . . Kelowna was 1-for-6 on the PP; the Giants were 2-for-2. . . . Vancouver (17-6-1-2) had a five-game home-ice winning streak snapped. . . .
In Swift Current, D Eric Doyle scored three times to help the Broncos to a 4-1 victory over the Saskatoon Blades. . . . Doyle, who scored once in each period, with two of them coming via the PP, now has seven goals on the season. . . . F Levi Nelson had two assists for the Broncos. . . .
In Moose Jaw, the high-flying Lethbridge Hurricanes pulled one out of the hat as they beat the Warriors 3-2 in overtime. . . . The Hurricanes, 13-0-0-1 in their last 14 outings, got two goals from F Mitch Fadden, who has 16 scores this season. . . . He tied the game with 7.7 seconds left in the third period and the recently acquired Colton Sceviour got the winner with 37 seconds left in the five-minute extra session. . . . Moose Jaw (), which has lost seven straight games, came close to winning in OT when F Riley Holzapfel drilled a cross-bar. . . .
In Red Deer, the Kootenay Ice got out to a 2-0 first-period lead with goals less than three minutes apart and went on to a 3-2 victory over the Rebels. . . . F Steele Boomer’s fourth goal, at 8:58 of the second, gave the Ice a 3-1 lead and stood up as the winner. . . . G Thomas Heemskerk stopped 31 shots, 18 in the third period, for the Ice (13-10-2-0), which has won six straight. . . . D Paul Kurceba drew an assist on Kootenay’s first goal and scored the second, his first goal this season. . . . F Brennan Sonne, acquired earlier in the week from the Everett Silvertips, had a goal and an assist for the Rebels (7-16-4-1). . . . Red Deer sat out F J.D. Watt after he was tossed with a checking-from-behind major early in Saturday’s 3-2 victory over the visiting Seattle Thunderbirds. Watt served a six-game suspension earlier in the season so will likely draw another suspension from this incident. . . .
In Prince Albert, the Raiders outscored Calgary 2-1 in a shootout to beat the Hitmen, 4-3. . . . The teams alternated goals in regulation time, with Prince Albert scoring first and Calgary forcing OT on F Ian Duval’s ninth goal of the season at 19:27 of the third period. . . . Calgary ws 2-for-6 on the PP; P.A. was 0-for-1. . . . Calgary’s Brandon Kozun, the circus’s first shooter, scored but that was it for Calgary. Justin Bernhardt and Matt Robertson, the third and fourth shooters for the home team, both scored. . . . Robertson scored his 12th goal of the season in the third period to give the Raiders a 3-2 edge. . . . Bernhardt finished with two assists. . . . Calgary D Michael Stone had his first goal of the season and also drew an assist. . . .
In Chilliwack, the Everett Silvertips jumped out to a 3-0 lead and went on to beat the Bruins, 4-2. . . . F Zach Hamill, F Clayton Bauer and F Kyle Beach, shorthanded, had the visitors (14-10-0-1) out front 3-0 by 14:37 of the second period. . . . Beach, who was helped from the ice in the first period, added another shorthanded goal, his 19th score this season, at 19:14 of the third period. . . . Bruins G Matt Esposito stopped Everett D Taylor Ellington on a second-period penalty shot. . . . G Shayne Barrie stopped 31 shots for Everett, which was outshot 12-1 in the third period. . . . The Bruins, who have lost three straight, are 13-9-3-0. . . . Chilliwack C Mark Santorelli, the WHL’s leading scorer, had a 14-game point streak end. . . . Everett had killed off 23 straight penalties when Chilliwack’s Jeff Einhorn scored his first goal of the season at 19:58 of the third period.
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