More from Monday . . .

JUST NOTES: LW Ryan Howse (leg) is expected back in the Chilliwack Bruins’ lineup Tuesday when they play host to the Portland Winter Hawks. He was injured Saturday in a 5-4 OT loss to the visiting Prince George Cougars. Howse sat out Sunday’s 5-2 victory over the Blazers in Kamloops on Sunday. He went for X-rays on Monday and they were negative. The leg is bruised and he is expected to play Tuesday. . . . The Bruins, however, are likely to be without RW Blair Wentworth (suspected concussion). He was hurt during a scrap with Prince George’s Coby Hobbs on Friday. If Wentworth is diagnosed with a concussion, it will be his second of the season. . . . The Cougars have returned D Scott Brkich, 18, to the AJHL’s Drayton Valley Thunder. He had one assist in four games. . . . The WHL has nominated Martin Jones of the Calgary Hitmen as the ADT CHL goaltender of the week. He was 3-0-0-0 last week, with a 1.00 GAA and a .955 save percentage. . . . The Kelowna Rockets are at home to the Tri-City Americans on Wednesday and G Kris Lazaruk can hardly wait. The last time the teams met, on Nov. 4 in Kennewick, Wash., Lazaruk suffered a shoulder injury. He returned to action Saturday, blanking the Blazers 5-0 in Kamloops, and will start for the Rockets on Wednesday. Lazaruk is hoping the shutout is a sign of better things to come – he has a 3.57 GAA and a .858 save percentage. “My time here . . . maybe I was over-analyzing things too much,” Lazaruk tells Doyle Potentau of the Kelowna Daily Courier. “I had to rethink things . . . go out there and simplify my game; just go out and stop the puck, really. I guess (rethinking) comes with age and maturity. You need good practice habits because good practice habits leads into games. In Kamloops, I couldn’t have asked for a better outing, and to get the shutout was great.”
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The fires that have ravaged areas near Los Angeles really hit home for one WHL player. The Los Angeles Times story is right here.
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These are interesting – really interesting – times in Kingston, what with Doug Gilmour coming in to coach the OHL’s Frontenacs. This is a franchise that has struggled for a while now and, at least one some fronts, ownership and the general manager aren’t overly popular. One take on what is going on is right here.
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And if you’re interested in a radio roundtable on the Frontenacs, give this a listen. It sounds like the situation in Kingston, where Frontenacs management apparently seems to think winning will cure all that ails the franchise, is rather intriguing.