Tuesday's highlights . . .

G Joey Perricone, who played five seasons with the Moose Jaw Warriors and completed his eligibility this season, has signed with the ECHL’s Las Vegas Wranglers. He will back up Kevin Lalande, a 21-year-old product of the OHL’s Belleville Bulls. . . . The Wranglers presently are embroiled in a playoff series with the Stockton Thunder. . . . The Los Angeles Kings have signed Chilliwack Bruins F Oscar Moller to a three-year, entry-level deal. Moller, who finished his season with the AHL’s Manchester Monarchs, was a second-round selection by the Kings in the NHL’s 2007 entry draft. . . .
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There were two playoff games Tuesday night. . . .
In Lethbridge, G Juha Metsola stopped 25 shots and F Carter Bancks scored the game’s first two goals as the Hurricanes whipped the Calgary Hitmen, 6-0, in front of 4,504 fans. . . . Lethbridge has a 3-0 grip on this series and gets its first chance to wrap it up at home Wednesday. . . . After a scoreless first period, Bancks scored 28 seconds into the second period. He added his second goal, and fourth of the playoffs, at 14:04. . . . When F Adam Chorneyko made it 3-0 just 1:49 later, well, this one was over. . . . F Mitch Fadden, F Craig Orfino and D Jeff May, on the PP, also scored. . . . Metsola has 11 victories and three shutouts in the playoffs. . . . Lethbridge was 1-for-6 on the PP; the Hitmen were 0-for-5. . . . Calgary used both its goaltenders, with Dan Spence starting and stopping 13 of 16 shots. Martin Jones came on in relief and stopped 11 of 14. . . . Lethbridge had won Games 1 and 2, 5-2 and 4-3 in OT, in Calgary. . . . The Hurricanes are 6-1 at home, where their penalty killers are 35-for-38, in these playoffs. . . . Game 5, if needed, would be in Calgary on Friday night. . . . F Brock Nixon and F Ryan White, perhaps Calgary’s two biggest guns, totaled one assist and are minus-11 in the first three games. In Calgary’s 12 playoff games prior to this series, the pair had 34 points, includling 15 goals. . . . If you’re a fan of the Hitmen you should know that only the 1995-96 Spokane Chiefs came back to win a best-of-seven series after losing the first three games. . . . You should also know that the Hitmen went through three three-game losing streaks this season, but they never lost four straight. . . .
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In Spokane, C Kruise Reddick’s shorthanded goal at 2:07 of overtime gave the Tri-City Americans a 3-2 victory over the Chiefs. . . . The series is tied 2-2 with Game 5 on Saturday in Kennewick, Wash., and Game 6 on Monday in Spokane. . . . Tri-City’s Blair Macaulay went off for tripping at 1:13 of the first overtime period — Spokane D Jared Spurgeon went off for hooking at 19:48 of the thid period — and Reddick scored his second playoff goal less than a minute later. F Drew Hoff, who scored the winner in Tri-City’s 1-0 double OT victory in Game 2, drew the lone assist on Reddick’s goal. Hoff forced Spokane G Dustin Tokarski into a turnover behind the net and got the puck to Reddick, who notched the winner. . . . C Mitch Wahl gave Spokane a 1-0 lead at 4:29 of the first period. . . . The Americans roared back with two goals 19 seconds apart in the last minute of the period. LW Colton Yellow Horn scored his ninth goal, on the PP, at 19:20 and D Jarrett Toll added another goal at 19:39. D T.J. Fast drew assists on both goals. . . . LW Drayson Bowman tied it for Spokane at 18:49 of the second period on the PP. . . . Tri-City was 1-for-5 on the PP; Spokane was 1-for-6. . . . Attendance was 6,521. . . . Tokarski stopped 30 shots, 12 more than Tri-City’s Chet Pickard. . . . Tri-City outshot the Chiefs 12-5 in the third period. . . . The Americans, the WHL’s highest-scoring team in the regular season, went into the game having scored but one goal in the first three games, two of which went into double OT. . . . Spokane had been 0-for-21 on the PP through three games. . . . Yellow Horn, the WHL’s leading goal scorer and third-leading pointman in the regular season, was pointless through the first three games.