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D Scott Maetche, 19, who left the Tri-City Americans earlier in the week after suffering his second concussion of the season, may not be finished, after all.
The Americans acquired Maetche from the Calgary Hitmen, only to have him end up with a concussion in his first game with them. The team announced Tuesday that he was retiring.
Maetche now has told the Red Deer Advocate that he isn’t sure.
“The next day and the day after I was losing sight in my right eye and I wasn’t doing so well waking up,” Maetche, who is from Lacombe, Alta., told the Advocate. “I’d have just a brutal headache and I felt nauseous for a couple of days. It was a pretty bad one. I still have headaches; I haven’t had a day without a headache since. That’s where it’s at right now. I’m kind of just waiting and hoping that I’ll wake up and my head will feel OK.”
His 2007-08 season included one game with the WHL’s Chilliwack Bruins and 27 with the AJHL’s Grande Prairie Storm. His season was shortened by mononucleosis and a separated shoulder.
He joined the Hitmen this season and then suffered a concussion in the second game of the season, something that limited him to nine games with Calgary. And now he has a second concussion, but he told the Advocate he’s not sure about the future.
“With this one (concussion) being as bad as it is, I decided to take some time off from the game,” said Maetche, who also may enroll at Red Deer College in January. “Who knows, maybe I’ll have a change of heart in the next couple of months or so and will go back. But for now I just kind of needed a break. I had to get away from the game.”
These days, you can find him in Edmonton, watching the National Finals Rodeo.
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For a look at how brothers Dean and Jeff Chynoweth, their mother, Linda, and their families are approaching the Hockey Hall of Fame weekend, check out a story written by Rob Vanstone of the Regina Leader-Post. That story is right here.
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JUST NOTES: The Swift Current Broncos have released F Oliver Jokel, who is expected to return home to Kosice, Slovakia, and play for a junior team there. A selection in the CHL’s 2008 import draft, Jokel, 17, was pointless in 14 games with the Broncos. . . . F Josh Cowen of the Red Deer Rebels drew a one-game suspension for a kneeing major and game misconduct incurred Wednesday in a 2-0 loss to the Chiefs in Spokane. He sat out the Rebels' Friday game against the Thunderbirds in Seattle.
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FRIDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS:
In Brandon, F Matt Calvert had two goals to help the Wheat Kings past the Swift Current Broncos, 5-3. . . . For the Wheat Kings (11-6-1-0), it was their first home game since returning from a 3-2 tour of the B.C. Division. . . . The Broncos (14-6-0-0) had a five-game winning streak snapped. . . . F Cody Eakin gave the Broncos a 2-1 lead at 1:03 of the third period. . . . Brandon D Darren Bestland tied it at 3:39 with the first of four Wheat Kings goals in a span of 8:54. . . . Calvert scored on the PP at 6:20 of the third and added another goal, his fifth of the season, at 11:07. . . . Brandon F Brayden Schenn got his ninth at 12:33, with Eakin completing his hat trick at 19:48. . . . Eakin has four goals in two games since returning from a concussion.
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In Chilliwack, the Bruins scored four times in the first period en route to a 6-2 victory over the Edmonton Oil Kings. . . . The Bruins (6-11-1-1) snapped a nine-game losing streak, just two shy of the franchise record. . . . The Oil Kings (9-12-1-1) are 2-3 on a six-game road swing. . . . Edmonton had a 37-19 edge in shots but the Bruins beat G Torrie Jung four times on nine shots in the first period. . . . F Ryan Howse had his second three-goal game of the season for the Bruins. He has 10 goals this season. . . . Chilliwack F Jadon Potter drew three assists. . . . The Bruins led 4-1 after the first period, the first time they have been in front after 20 minutes all of this season. . . . RW Tomas Vincour had two goals for Edmonton, giving him nine on the season. . . . G Mark Friesen stopped 35 shots for Chilliwack. He stopped Vincour on a second-period penalty shot.
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In Cranbrook, F Brendan Rowinski scored a pair of second-period goals to help the Calgary Hitmen to a 5-2 victory over the Kootenay Ice. . . . The Hitmen (16-4-1-0) remain first in the WHL’s overall standings. . . . Calgary beat the visiting Ice 6-2 on Monday night. The Hitmen have won three straight and nine of 11. . . . The Ice (10-9-2-3) has lost three in a row. . . . Calgary G Martin Jones made 17 saves for his 10th victory. . . . Calgary led 2-1 after one period and Rowinski opened the second period with his fourth and fifth goals of the season. . . . Attendance was 3,335, the largest crowd of the season in Cranbrook. . . . The Ice, which has played 24 games in 48 days, has been given the weekend off and then head coach Mark Holick will hold a mini-training camp. The Ice next plays Nov. 14 when the Lethbridge Hurricanes visit Cranbrook.
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In Moose Jaw, the Warriors scored the game’s last four goals and beat the Prince Albert Raiders, 5-4. . . . The Warriors (6-11-0-1) had lost six in a row and had scored only 34 goals in those six games. . . . The Raiders (11-12-0-0) have lost three in a row and four of five. . . . With the Warriors trailing 4-2, Moose Jaw F Joel Broda scored three straight goals to end the game. He got the Warriors to within one, at 4-3, at 4:00, tied the game at 18:50 and got the winner at 19:45. Broda has 13 goals this season. . . . Moose Jaw F Jason Bast had a goal and two assists. . . . F Justin Bernhardt scored three times for the Raiders. . . . Raiders F Dustin Cameron added a goal and two helpers. . . . Prince Albert F Ryan McDonald had his point streak halted at nine games. He had 12 points, including four goals, over that stretch. . . . . Warriors F Ryley Grantham took a checking-from-behind major and game misconduct in the first period. . . . Prince Albert G Steve Stanford stopped 36 shots, including a penalty shot by Quinton Howden at 4:55 of the third period with the Raiders leading 4-3.
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In Prince George, G Tyson Sexsmith stopped 24 shots to lead the Vancouver Giants to a 5-0 victory over the Cougars. . . . The shutout was the 22nd of Sexsmith’s career, giving him the WHL career record. He had been tied with Bryan Bridges (Seattle Thunderbirds/Kootenay Ice, 2001-06) and Leland Irving (Everett Silvertips, 2003-08). . . . Sexsmith got his 22nd blank job in his 137th game. Bridges played 213 games, Irving played 195. . . . The Cougars (8-11-0-1) have lost eight of nine. . . . The Giants (13-0-0-3) have won six straight and are the only WHL team not to have lost in regulation time. . . . The QMJHL’s Moncton Wildcats, who play in Halifax tonight, are 16-0-2-0. . . . Vancouver held a 51-24 edge in shots. . . . Giants C Evander Kane had a goal and an assist. He has 30 points, two fewer than LW Jamie Benn of the Kelowna Rockets, who leads the league. The Rockets didn’t play Friday night. . . . Kane has at least point in each of the Giants’ 16 games this season.
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In Regina, F Mitch Czibere, in his first game since early in the season, broke a 2-2 tie at 9:15 of the third period as the Pats beat the Medicine Hat Tigers, 4-2. . . . The Tigers (8-7-2-2) trailed 2-1 after two periods but F Tyler Ennis tied it with a shorthanded goal 1:22 into the third. . . . Czibere, who missed 17 games with a knee injury, got his first of the season for the Pats (12-6-1-3) at 9:15. . . . Regina C Jordan Weal put it away with an empty-netter, his ninth goal of the season, at 19:43. . . . Pats G Linden Rowat stopped 24 shots to improve to 6-0-1-1. . . . Regina D Victor Bartley, the team captain, left in the second period with a groin injury but was back for the third period.
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In Saskatoon, G Braden Holtby stopped 25 shots to lead the Blades to a 1-0 overtime victory over the Everett Silvertips. . . . The shutout was the second of Holtby’s career. . . . The Blades (13-6-1-0) are 4-5-1-0. They had lost three of their lastd four home games. . . . The Silvertips (9-8-1-0) had won three of four. They are 1-1 on their East Division tour. . . . Everett G Shayne Barrie stopped 35 shots. He was beaten only by Saskatoon C Milan Kytnar, who scored 38 seconds into OT with the teams playing 3-on-3 due to coincidental minors having been called late in the third. . . . Another pane of glass shattered during the game, the ninth at Credit Union Centre since Sept. 1. . . . The Blades had never beaten the Silvertips, having lost four and tied once since Everett came into the league.
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In Seattle, the Thunderbirds broke a 2-2 second-period tie and went on to beat the Red Deer Rebels, 5-2. . . . The Thunderbirds (6-10-1-1) are 4-1 at home. . . . The Rebels (6-11-0-5) have lost three in a row and four of five. . . . . Red Deer, which is 0-2 on a western trip, has scored five goals in its last four losses. . . . Seattle F Luke Lockhart, who missed some time with a concussion, scored his first WHL goal at 8:03 of the third to give Seattle a 4-2 lead. . . . Seattle F Jonathan Parker, with his third WHL goal, had the 2-2 tiebreaker. . . . Red Deer got goals from forwards Cass Mappin and Landon Ferraro. They have 10 goals each. . . . Mappin and Ferraro scored 40 seconds apart in the first period to give Red Deer a 2-1 lead. Seattle head coach Rob Sumner promptly called his timeout but left G Calvin Pickard in the game. Pickard finished with 18 saves as he wasn’t beaten again. . . . Seattle will play its next seven games on the road before returning home to face Portland on Nov. 22.
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In Spokane, G Kurtis Mucha stopped 39 shots as the Portland Winter Hawks dumped the Chiefs, 2-1. . . . The Winter Hawks (4-13-0-0) are 2-1 under new ownership. . . . The Chiefs (11-4-0-3) had won two in a row and three of four. They went into the game 8-1 at home and had allowed nine goals. . . . F Tayler Jordan and D Brock Cornish, two players who had quit the Winter Hawks under the previous regime but were welcomed back with the regime change, had Portland’s goals 13 seconds apart midway in the second period. Both scored their first goals of the season. . . . G Dustin Tokarski stopped 24 shots for the Chiefs, who got a PP goal from F Steve Kuhn early in the third.
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In Kennewick, Wash., F Mitch Fadden, who was acquired from the Lethbridge Hurricanes on Wednesday, scored the winner in a shootout as the Tri-City Americans beat the Kamloops Blazers, 5-4. . . . The Americans (13-5-0-1) moved into first place in the U.S. Division, two points ahead of the Spokane Chiefs. . . . The Blazers had won two in a row and six of seven. . . . The last time the two teams met, on Oct. 21 in Kamloops, the Americans also won 5-4 in a shootout. . . . Fadden had one assist in regulation time. . . . Fadden was the only one of six circus shooters to score. . . . The Americans led this one 3-0 in the first period and 4-2 after two. Kamloops tied it on a PP goal by RW Tyler Shattock at 9:30 of the third period. . . . Tri-City G Chet Pickard made 19 saves, plus three in the shootout, as he won his 83rd regular-season game, trying Carey Price’s franchise record. . . . The Americans had 14 shots in the first period but only six in the second and one in the third. . . . Kamloops C Jake Trask, who is in his first season, scored his seventh goal. He has a goal in each of his last six games. . . . It turns out Fadden is hardly the first Americans player to wear No. 13. At least four others have worn that number on their jerseys while with the Americans.