More from Monday . . .

JUST NOTES: F Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is the B.C. Major Midget Hockey League’s player of the month. A first-year player, had a league-high 19 points, including 12 points, for the Vancouver North West Giants in October. The Red Deer Rebels selected Nugent-Hopkins with the first overall selection in the 2008 bantam draft. . . . The Brandon Wheat Kings arrived home from a B.C. Division swing on Sunday night — they went 3-2-0-0 in B.C. — and now will be at home for three weeks. They open a seven-game homestand Friday against the Swift Current Broncos. . . . The Wheat Kings lost F Jesse Hall (knee, indefinite) during the trip. . . . According to the Brandon Sun, the Edmonton Oil Kings have told F Braeden Adamyk, 18, that he no longer is in their plans. Adamyk has yet to play this season after suffering a broken jaw in the exhibition season. According to The Sun, Adamyk’s father, Grant, “said his son was medically cleared to play before the Oil Kings left for their U.S. road trip, which began Saturday against the Everett Silvertips, but was told by the team that he wasn’t in their plans anymore.” The MJHL’s Neepawa Natives hold Braeden’s MJHL rights. He is from Neepawa. . . .
F Kellen Tochkin, 18, of the Everett Silvertips is the Sports Management Worldwide (SMWW) / International Scouting Services (ISS) 2009 WHL draft prospect performer of the week. Tochkin, from Abbotsford, B.C., had a goal and two assists in three games last week. Each week, International Scouting Services (ISS), Sports Management Worldwide (SMWW), Hockey Now, and The Pipeline Show recognize the top NHL draft-eligible player from each of the WHL, OHL, QMJHL and USHL. . . . The Vancouver Giants have assigned D Simon Witt, 16, to the junior B Grandview Steelers, who play in the Pacific International junoir league. The Giants got D Curtis Kulchar, 18, back off a knee injury, which left them with eight defencemen. Witt was a fifth-round pick in the 2007 bantam draft. He is expected to rejoin the Giants when D Jon Blum heads off for the U.S. national junior team next month. . . . Freshman G Adam Brown is expected to put his unbeaten record (7-0-0-0) on the line tonight for Kelowna as the Rockets play host to the Tri-City Americans. Brown, 17, posted two victories over the weekend. . . . Brown has a 1.62 GAA and a .912 save percentage. . . .
As was posted here earlier Monday, G Kelly Guard, who backstopped the Rockets to the 2004 Memorial Cup title, has left Brunico of Italy’s Serie A and the team indicated that Guard intended to retire. Doyle Potenteau of the Kelowna Daily Courier has discovered that Guard, 25, has a groin tear and plans on returning to Canada to rehab the injury. Kelowna goaltending coach Kim Dillabaugh spoke with Guard and told Potenteau that Guard said “he wasn’t enjoying his time there, and that it wasn’t the calibre of hockey he initially thought it would be. I guess he basically wasn’t having fun, and once he got injured, that helped him make his decision (to leave Val Pusteria).” He was 1-7-0 with a 3.30 GAA and a .894 save percentage in Italy.
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MONDAY’S GAME:
In Calgary, F Kyle Bortis and F Carson McMillan had two goals each to lead the Hitmen to a 6-2 victory over the Kootenay Ice. The Hitmen (15-4-1-0) have won seven in a row at home, where they are 12-1. . . . Calgary also is first in the overall standings. . . . The Ice slipped to 10-8-2-3. . . . Bortis has 10 goals and McMillan eight. . . . Calgary F Brandon Kozun, with his 14th, and Bortis gave the Hitmen a 2-0 first-period lead. . . . Ice C Tylan Stephens, who is from Calgary, cut it to 2-1 with a PP goal 58 seconds into the second period. . . . McMillan got his first of the game 23 seconds later and Calgary added two more before the end of the period. . . . Calgary G Martin Jones stopped 27 shots. . . . Calgary was without D Keith Seabrook, who served the second of a four-game suspension. He drew the suspension for an interference major on a play last week in which Saskatoon Blades F Travis Toomey suffered a broken collarbone.