Bruno Campese has been signed as general manager and head coach of the Prince Albert Raiders through 2009-10. There is a club option on 2010-11. Campese, who joined the Raiders as head coach on June 21, added the GM’s duties to his job description when Donn Clark was fired in January. He joined the Raiders from the BCHL’s Penticton Vees for whom he was director of hockey operations and head coach. . . .
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The WHL is honouring Ruth (Grams) Pollock and Dr. Ian Hill as the 2007-08 recipients of the WHL Distinguished Service Award. These awards are presented annual to, according to a league statement, “an individual associated with the WHL who has made an extraordinary contribution over an extended period of time at the WHL Club or League level.” . . . Pollock began billeting players in Prince Albert in 1988-89 when grandson Troy Hjertaas made the Raiders. She has continued providing a home for players, sometimes three at a time, since then. . . . Dr. Hill has worked with the Regina Pats for 40 years and has attended somewhere over 2,000 WHL games. He is retiring at the end of this season. . . . Previous winners: Dr. Alfred Blue, the Seattle Thunderbirds club doctor of over 30 years; Doris Rubel, who served as the Kamloops Blazers’ billet co-ordinator for 38 years; Swift Current Broncos education advisor Colleen MacBean; and, Bob Ridley, the Medicine Hat Tigers’ long-time radio voice.
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F Kyle Beach of the Everett Silvertips will wear a full face shield for a while after he was found to have a fractured orbital, the result of being struck by a puck. He practiced Thursday and should play tonight against the visiting Seattle Thunderbirds. . . . The Silvertips also could have D Chris de la Lande (leg) back in the lineukp. He missed six games.
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