D Zach Sim, 19, is on the move. Again. He has been traded by the Medicine Hat Tigers to the Prince Albert Raiders for a fifth-round pick in the 2008 WHL bantam draft. Sim, from Saskatoon, has played for the Everett Silvertips (2004-06), Tri-City Americans (2006-07) and Medicine Hat. This season, he has four points in 19 games. . . . The Raiders are missing three defencemen – Jeff May (shoulder, 4-6 weeks), Kyle Aschim (concussion, indefinitely) and Ryan Button (virus, day-to-day). . . . Sim should be in the Raiders’ lineup Saturday when they meet the visiting Moose Jaw Warriors.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Tigers wheeling, dealing
The Medicine Hat Tigers have acquired LW Travis Dunstall, 18, from the Kamloops Blazers for F Scott Wasden, 19, and a 2008 seventh-round WHL bantam draft pick. Dunstall, from Onoway, Alta., was the 16th overall pick in the 2004 bantam draft. He has nine points, six of them goals, in 23 games this season, his third in the WHL. Wasden, who is from Westbank, B.C., is in his third season with the Tigers. He has seven points, two of them goals, in in 26 games this season. . . .