Monday . . .

In Monday’s lone playoff game, G Torrie Jung put on another show but, once again, it wasn’t enough as his Edmonton Oil Kings fell 4-1 to the visiting Calgary Hitmen. . . . The Hitmen, who finished atop the overall standings, hold a 3-0 edge in the series and can complete a sweep Wednesday in Edmonton. . . . Jung, who stopped 54 shots in a 2-1 OT loss in Calgary on Sunday, stopped 41 in this one. . . . Jung kept Calgary off the board until D Alex Plante beat him through traffic at 19:59 of the first period. . . . Joel Broda, Brandon Kozun and Chase Schaber also scored for Calgary. . . . Robin Soudek had Edmonton’s goal. . . . Calgary G Martin Jones stopped 20 shots.
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Bob Brown, who won three Memorial Cups in a four-year period with the Kamloops Blazers, has been named as a recipient of the 2008-09 WHL Governors Award.
The award is presented annually, according to the WHL, “to individuals who, through their outstanding service as a builder of the league and achievements in the game, have contributed to the growth and development of the WHL.”
Brown will be honoured prior to Tuesday’s WHL playoff game between the Kelowna Rockets and Blazers in Kamloops.
Brown spent nine seasons as the Blazers’ general manager, winning four WHL championships and three Memorial Cups before being fired by then-Blazers president Colin Day.
Brown later worked for the Tri-City Americans and Vancouver Giants. He now is in his seventh season as a scout for the NHL’s Edmonton Oilers.
“Bob Brown will always be regarded as one of the most successful general managers in WHL history,” WHL commissioner Ron Robison said in a statement. “Bob was responsible for building a dynasty in the 1990s with the Kamloops Blazers and his record of three Memorial Cup championships in four seasons may never be matched again in the WHL.”
The WHL Governors Award, first awarded in 2004-05, is the highest honour bestowed upon an individual by the league's board of governors.
Previous recipients were Bill Hunter, Scotty Munro and Jim Piggott (2007-08); Bob Cornell (2006-07); Jack McLeod (2005-06); and Pat Ginnell, Ernie McLean, Bill Hicke and Del Wilson (2004-05).
Brown also will be inducted into the B.C. Hockey Hall of Fame later this summer in Penticton.
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The Tri-City Americans have added Innes Mackie to their training staff for the duration of this season.
Mackie spent 31 years as the trainer for the Portland Winter Hawks. He was released earlier this season when the Winter Hawks underwent an ownership change.
With the Americans, Mackie will assist athletic trainer Kevin Heise with all aspects of his job, with particular emphasis on the team's equipment. Mackie is scheduled to join the Americans before Game 3 of their first-round playoff series with the Silvertips in Everett on Wednesday.
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There has been a scheduling change involving Game 5 of the series between the Spokane Chiefs and Seattle Thunderbirds.
The game, originally to have been played Friday in Spokane, now will take place on Saturday, 7 p.m., at Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena.
The reason for the change? The Chiefs don’t want to go head-to-head with the Gonzaga Bulldogs’ men’s basketball team which has advanced to the Sweet 16 and will play North Carolina in Memphis on Friday.
Games 3 and 4 of the Spokane-Seattle series, which is tied 1-1, are to be played Tuesday and Wednesday at the ShoWare Center in Kent, Wash.
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JUST NOTES: D Travis Ehrhardt of the Portland Winter Hawks has joined the AHL’s Winnipeg-based Manitoba Moose. . . . The Kelowna Rockets may have F Mikael Backlund back in their lineup Tuesday night for the first time since he suffered a suspected concussion during a game in Kamloops on March 13. The Rockets have never disclosed details of Backlund’s injury. They take a 2-0 series lead into Tuesday’s game against the Blazers in Kamloops. . . . As if the Brandon Wheat Kings’ trek to Cranbrook wasn’t long enough, the team was forced by icy roads and big rigs to be moved from blocking the Trans-Canada Highway east of Swift Current. It all meant what most times would be a 14-hour trek took more than 20 hours. The Wheat Kings have a 2-0 series lead on the Kootenay Ice with Games 3 and 4 in Cranbrook on Tuesday and Thursday.