Saturday . . .

G Trevor Gutierrez, 15, is in camp with the Everett Silvertips. Gutierrez, from Anchorage, Alaska, is the younger brother of RW Moises Guiterrez, who played in the WHL with Everett and the Kamloops Blazers. The younger Gutierrez, it seems, was used for target practice early in his career. "He always made me put on the gear and face some shots," Trevor tells Nick Patterson of the Everett Herald. “I had no choice at all, but I fell in love with it." . . . The Silvertips have added Jeremy Creuer and Bill LaForge to their scouting staff. Creuer is the first former Silvertips player to join the team’s front office. He played 20 games with them in 2004-05 but had his career cut short by a concussion. He will scout in southern Saskatchewan. LaForge, the son of the late Bill LaForge, who was a WHL head coach in Kamloops and Regina, will work in the Edmonton area and in northern Alberta.
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Former Kamloops Blazers F Tyson Nash is going to give the NHL one more shot. According to Jim Gintonio of the Arizona Republic, Nash, who hasn’t played in the NHL since he was with the Phoenix Coyotes in 2006, will go to camp with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Nash, 33, played in Japan with the Nipon Paper Cranes last season. Nash was one of the players to win three Memorial Cups in four season with the Blazers in 1992, ’94 and ’95.
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Paul Danzer of The Columbian has a piece on the state of the Portland Winter Hawks, as they prepare to opening training camp. That story is right here.
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Interesting story by Steve Ewen in Sunday’s Province. It seems the Giants had triplets – Gerry, Leo and Myles Fitzgerald – in their rookie camp over the weekend. The brothers, who are from Port Alberni, stand 5-foot-1 and weigh 110 pounds apiece, and will celebrate their 15th birthdays on Monday. Oh, and they’ve also been in a movie with Kathleen Turner. . . . Read Ewen’s on his Dub Hub blog that is linked over there on the left.