Sunday . . .

Alan Maki of The Globe and Mail takes a look at the Medicine Hat Tigers in a story from the Saturday edition of the newspaper. That story, part of a series on junior hockey, is right here.
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JUST NOTES: D Victor Bartley of the Regina Pats has signed an amateur tryout deal with the AHL’s Providence Bruins. . . . Regina RW Jordan Eberle is expected to join the Springfield Falcons, the AHL affiliate of the NHL’s Edmonton Oilers. Eberle was a first-round selection by the Oilers in the 2008 draft. . . . Regina D Colten Teubert, a first-round pick by the Los Angeles Kings, may be joining the AHL’s Manchester Monarchs, while D Matt Delahey, a fourth-round pick by the New Jersey Devils, is likely to join the AHL’s Lowell Devils.
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If the playoffs started today:
(x – indicates team has clinched seed)
EASTERN CONFERENCE
x-Calgary (1) vs. Prince Albert/Edmonton (8)
x-Saskatoon (2) vs. x-Lethbridge (7)
x-Brandon (3) vs. x-Kootenay (6)
x-Swift Current (4) vs. x-Medicine Hat (5)
Sunday: Red Deer 2 at Edmonton 1; Calgary 6 at Lethbridge 2.
NOTES: It all comes down to Tuesday night. Edmonton plays at Prince Albert. Game time is 7:30. The winner finishes eighth and gets Calgary in the first round. That series opens Thursday in Calgary.
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WESTERN CONFERENCE
(x – indicates team has clinched seed)
x-Vancouver (1) vs. x-Prince George (8)
x-Tri-City (2) vs. x-Everett (7)
Kelowna (3) vs. x-Kamloops (6)
Spokane (4) vs. x-Seattle (5)
Sunday: Chilliwack 4 at Portland 3; Everett 0 at Seattle 10; Kelowna at Spokane (ppd.); Prince George 1 at Tri-City 3.
Monday: Kelowna at Spokane.
Tuesday: Spokane at Tri-City
NOTES: Third and fourth are still in doubt. If Kelowna wins Monday in Spokane, the Rockets finish third. Two Spokane victories and the Chiefs will finish third.
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WEEKEND STUFF: F Casey Pierro-Zabotel of the Vancouver Giants has won the WHL scoring title. Pierro-Zabotel, 20, finished with 115 points as he became the first Vancouver player in franchise history to win the scoring crown. He also led the WHL in assists, with 79. . . . Pierro-Zabotel finished with a seven-point edge on Brandon Kozun of the Calgary Hitmen. Kozun had one goal, his 40th, in a 6-2 victory over the Hurricanes in Lethbridge on Sunday. . . . Calgary’s Brett Sonne had a goal and two assists in that victory to reach the 100-point mark, only the third player to get there this season. . . . Joel Broda, who was dealt from the Moose Jaw Warriors to Calgary in January, finished with a WHL-leading 53 goals. He was the only player to reach 50 goals.
F Jeremy Boyer had three goals to lead the host Seattle Thunderbirds to a 10-0 victory over the Everett Silvertips. . . . It was the worst loss in franchise history for Everett and the first time the Silvertips have given up 10 or more goals in a game. . . . Boyer finished with 21 goals. . . . Seattle D Stefan Warg got the eventual game-winner, his first of the season, at 8:14 of the first period. . . . Seattle G Kyle Jahraus, in his first game with Seattle, stopped 27 shots for the shutout. His previous WHL experience comprised two relief appearances with the Tri-City Americans in 2006-07. . . . Seattle F Devon LeBlanc had a goal and four assists and was plus-6. . . . Seattle was again without injured forwards Prab Rai and Lindsay Nielsen. Both are expected to play Friday when the playoffs open. . . . When Nick Patterson of the Everett Herald asked Silvertips head coach John Becanic what happened, the response was: “I haven’t watched the video yet.” . . . Hopefully, Becanic was joking. That one won’t be worth keeping.
F Mitch Fadden scored his 35th goal as the host Tri-City Americans beat the Prince George Cougars, 3-1. The Americans set a franchise record with their 30th home-ice victory of the season. . . . Prince George G Michael Salmon made his WHL debut with a 39-save effort. . . . The Toyota Center in Kennewick, Wash., was sold out (5,944) as the Americans held their Awards Night after the game. . . . Tri-City lost D Brett Plouffe late in the first period when he suffered an injury to his right leg as he tried to check one of the Cougars. Plouffe was on crutches after the game.
The Lethbridge Hurricanes, whose bus broke down as they returned home after a Saturday night loss to the Kootenay Ice in Cranbrook, lost 6-2 to the visiting Calgary Hitmen. The Hurricanes didn’t get home from Cranbrook until 7 a.m. . . . The Lethbridge Herald reports that G Juha Metsola, who was stretchered off the ice Saturday after a goal-mouth collision, is day-to-day and no one is saying whether he will be ready for Game 1 with the host Saskatoon Blades on Friday. “Any time you get carried off on a stretcher it's not good,” Hurricanes head coach Michael Dyck told Dale Woodard of the Herald. “But he rode the bus back with us and I think he'll be OK. It's just if he's going to be OK and ready to roll
for Games 1 and 2.”