Here’s a note scalped from Jeff Bromley’s blog Ice Chips (the link is over there on the left). This involves the just-completed series between the Kootenay Ice and Medicine Hat Tigers:
“The Radio Wars going on between the two cities has gotten comical. After Drive morning show host Steve Russell phone Medicine Hat area golf courses looking for tee-times for the Tigers on Wednesday morning a Hat radio station personality phoned the Drive this morning saying that he was Ice forward Dustin Sylvester and that he had missed the bus to Medicine Hat. The Drive went on the air asking if someone could give Sylvester a ride to Medicine Hat. At 8 a.m., Ice players received text messages on their cell phones asking if Sylvester was really not with the team. Sylvester was obviously with the team and went on to score a goal and an assist, garnering first star honours.”
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LW Myles Stoesz, who had WHL stints with the Spokane Chiefs, Chilliwack Bruins and Regina Pats, added 68 penalty minutes to his stats Friday night as his Gwinnett Gladiators dropped a 4-1 decision to the host Florida Everblades. . . . Stoesz went into the third period with nine minutes, from two minors and a fighting major. And then the stuff hit the fan. At 4:48 if the third period, he got hit with instigating and roughing minors and one fighting major. There also was a misconduct for continuing an alercation. Add to that four – count’ em, four – game misconducts. . . . In the end, it totals 68 minutes. . . . Stoesz came out of that game with 63-game totals of four goals, two assists and 308 penalty minutes. . . . He also was minus-19. . . .
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An interesting situation is developing in the Western Conference as the Vancouver Giants prepare to meet the Spokane Chiefs in a best-of-seven second-round series. Vancouver G Tyson Sexsmith billets with Tracy Rutherford, who just happens to be the mother of Spokane F David Rutherford, whose career actually began with the Giants. “I’ve been told he’ll be the guy standing in front of me on the power play. If I give him a shot, I’ll probably hear about it (from Tracy),” a laughing Sexsmith told Steve Ewen of the Vancouver Province. “It’ll be weird to play them, but we definitely knew it was a possibility. When I came back from Christmas break, he had written, ‘See you in the playoffs,’ on the wipe board on his door. Now, it’s all coming together. With this series, we’ll see if he gets his room back.” . . . Ewen reports that Vancouver D Jon Blum and two Spokane forwards, Mitch Wahl and Ryan Letts, are boyhood pals from California. . . . The Giants and Chiefs haven’t met since Nov. 3. The Giants won 2-1 in a shootout that night in Spokane. On Oct. 21, the Chiefs won 2-0 in Vancouver. . . .
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F Mark Santorelli of the Chilliwack Bruins is expected to sign an NHL deal with the Nashville Predators early next week. Santorelli, who won the WHL scoring championship on the regular season’s last day, was selected by the Predators with the 199th pick of the 2007 draft. . . .
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SATURDAY NIGHT IN THE WHL:
In Swift Current, the Broncos scored three goals in the game’s first 7:17 and went on to beat the Regina Pats, 5-2. . . . The Broncos won the series, 4-2. . . . Swift Current scored three times on its first six shots, sending Regina starter Linden Rowat to the bench. Levi Nelson (2:12), Dale Weise (4:20) and Geordie Wudrick (7:17, PP) did the early damage. . . . The Broncos outshot Regina 18-5 in the first period and 33-30 on the night. . . . Attendance was a jam-packed 2,865. . . . Regina cut the Broncos’ lead to 3-2 on two PP goals from F Ryan DePape, the second one at 3:43 of the third. . . . The Broncos put it away on empty-netters by F Dale Weise and F Keegan Dansereau. . . . The skeptics and nattering nabobs of negativity will be sniping at Regina GM Brent Parker for the moves he made leading up to the trade deadline in acquiring the likes of D Ryan Bender, D Victor Bartley and RW J.D. Watt. But, hey, Parker thought he saw an opportunity and went for it. And isn’t that what this is all about? . . .
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