Sunday's serving . . .

In Regina, F Scott Glennie’s shootout goal gave the Brandon Wheat Kings a 4-3 victory over the Pats. . . . Brandon was losing 3-0 after the second period. . . . Regina rookie F Jordan Weal had a goal and two assists. . . . Brandon F Aaron Lewadniuk forced OT at 10:52 of the third. . . . Glennie was Brandon’s third shooter and scored the circus’s lone goal. . . . It was Regina’s home-opener and drew 4,799 fans to the Brandt Centre. . . . On Friday, the Wheat Kings scored three goals in the third period’s last five minutes and beat the Pats, 5-3. . . . Regina still has five players at NHL camps — D Matt Delahey, RW Jordan Eberle, RW Brett Leffler, G Linden Rowat and D Colten Teubert. . . . Weal has five points in his first two games. . . .
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In Cranbrook, G Juha Metsola stopped 29 shots for the shutout as the Lethbridge Hurricanes beat the Kootenay Ice, 1-0. . . . It was the fourth shutout of the sophomore goaltender’s WHL career. . . . The game’s only goal came from freshman D Brandon Yadlowski, who scored on the PP just 56 seconds into the game. . . . Attendance was announced at 2,489, the smallest crowd to watch a regular-season game in the Rec Plex.
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In Portland, F Colin Reddin scored the game’s last two goals to give the Winter Hawks a 2-1 victory over the Kelowna Rockets. . . . Portland G Jordan White stopped 33 shots, while Kelowna’s Kris Lazaruk made 15 saves. . . . F Evan Bloodoff gave Kelowna a 1-0 lead on the PP at 4:07 of the second, with Reddin tying it, on the PP, just over a minute later. . . . Reddin got the winner at 7:30 of the third on another PP. . . . F Bradley Ross, the fifth overall pick in the 2007 bantam draft, had two assists for Portland. He is the younger brother of D Nick Ross of the Kamloops Blazers.
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F Evan Pighin played for the BCHL’s Victoria Grizzlies on Saturday night — he assisted on Justin Courtnall’s OT winner in a 4-3 victory over the Alberni Valley Bulldogs — and you’ve got to wonder if the WHL will go to war over this one. Pighin, 20, spent last season with the Chilliwack Bruins, who retain his WHL rights. But Pighin, who had 48 points, including 22 goals, in 53 games last season, chose not to report to the Bruins’ training camp, saying that he preferred to play for the Grizzlies. The Bruins, however, have steadfastly refused to grant him his release. Chilliwack GM Darrell May has said that in order to do that, Pighin would have to be placed on waivers and, in May’s estimation, he would be claimed by another team. But now, according to Steve Ewen of the Vancouver Province, B.C. Hockey has “stepped in and said that he could play with the Grizzlies.” BCHL commissioner John Grisdale told Ewen: "B.C. Hockey supported our stance . . . he's a B.C. kid who wanted to play in B.C." . . . May told Ewen: "I never signed a release. It wasn't my boss, either, and the league didn't do it." . . . It’s interesting that Pighin turned down a free-agent tryout offer from the New York Rangers — Bruins co-owner Glen Sather is the Rangers’ GM — but attended a Tampa Bay Lightning prospects’ camp in Victoria. Tampa Bay co-owner Len Barrie owns the Grizzlies. . . . What makes all of this so interesting is that a lot of WHL front-office types vehemently dislike the BCHL, primarily due to the many recruiting wars — exactly like this one involving Pighin, but usually over younger players — between the two leagues. So you can bet there will be pressure on WHL commissioner Ron Robison to take this scrap to the limit.
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The QMJHL returned to Montreal on Saturday as the Juniors — yes, that is the Montreal franchise’s nickname — fell 3-2 to Patrick Roy’s Quebec Remparts. The game drew 3,780 fans, which is almost a full house, to the Verdun Auditorium. Included in the crowd were Montreal Canadiens players Maxim Lapierre and Guillaume Latendresse, both QMJHL products. . . . The Ottawa Senators have returned C Jim O’Brien to the Seattle Thunderbirds. . . . Head coach Dale Hunter of the OHL’s London Knights put up victories No. 300 and 301 over the weekend. . . . Former Swift Current Broncos sniper Kimbi Daniels, 35, won’t be back for a ninth season with the ECHL’s Anchorage Aces. He signed last week with the ECHL’s Phoenix Roadrunners. He had 66 points and 134 penalty minutes with Anchorage last season. . . . F Judd Blackwater, who helped the Spokane Chiefs to the Memorial Cup in May, has signed with the ECHL’s Fresno Falcons.
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And here’s a piece from the Canwest News Service:
Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price escaped hockey this summer by shutting off his cellphone and heading out into the northern wilds of his native British Columbia.
"I went into the bush for two months, and nobody's going to bother you up there," said Price, an avid outdoorsman who spent his time "fishing, hunting, roping, just relaxing and swatting mosquitoes."
The 21-year-old enjoyed great success with a fishing rod, too, he and his father, Jerry, hauling in two sturgeon weighing 220 and 200 pounds.
And Price swears on a frying catfish this is not an angler's fib.
"It's legit. You can call the Ministry of the Environment in B.C.," he challenged a raised eyebrow.
(We did, but registration of the catches was either not available or the bureaucrat we reached thought it was a crank call.)
"It was pretty tough fighting that thing for 20 minutes," Price said. "It jumps out of the water and your eyes go, "Whooo!' "