Tuesday . . .

F Rhett Rachinski, a 17-year-old from Edmonton, scored in OT to give the Edmonton Oil Kings a 2-1 victory over the Raiders in Prince Albert in a sudden-death WHL tiebreaker on Tuesday night. . . . The victory gives the Oil Kings the Eastern Conference’s eight and final playoff spots. They will open the playoffs on Thursday against the host Calgary Hitmen, who finished atop the WHL’s overall standings. . . . Rachinski, who had five goals in 69 games this season, beat Prince Albert G Garrett Zemlak through the five-hole with a backhand shot from the slot at 8:54 of OT. . . . Edmonton F Brent Raedeke scored the game’s first goal, on the PP, at 9:24 of the first period. . . . Prince Albert F Bryce Lamb pulled his side even at 10:46 of the second period. . . . Zemlak finished with 40 saves, including nine in OT. . . . Edmonton’s Torrie Jung stopped 35 shots, two of them in extra time.
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In the final game of the regular season, the visiting Spokane Chiefs beat the Tri-City Americans, 2-1. . . . The outcome didn’t have any bearing on the final standings. . . . C Mitch Wahl broke a 1-1 tie with 2:18 left in the third period. . . . The game was to have been played Saturday but was postponed when 11 Chiefs players came down with food poisoning.
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JUST NOTES: LW Drayson Bowman of the Spokane Chiefs is the Boston Pizza CHL player of the week. He had eight points in two games last week. . . . Former WHL D Jesse Dudas, a 20-year-old who last played with the Regina Pats, has surfaced with the ECHL’s Charlotte Checkers. . . . Regina G Linden Rowat, 19, has been assigned to the ECHL’s Ontario, Calif., Reign by the NHL’s Los Angeles Kings. They selected him in the fifth round of the 2007 NHL draft. . . . F Lance Bouma (hand) of the Vancouver Giants will see a doctor Thursday and hopes to get clearance to return to the lineup for the first time since Jan. 28. He has missed 23 games. The Giants open the first round Friday against the visiting Prince George Cougars. . . . Vancouver has added D Nolan Toigo, 19, to its playoff roster. Toigo, who played parts of two seasons with the Giants, has been with the BCHL’s Surrey Eagles, whose season is over. Toigo adds depth as he also is capable of playing up front and banging bodies. He is a nephew of Giants majority owner Ron Toigo. . . . RW Dale Hunt of the Everett Silvertips, who has missed 10 games with a concussion, has been cleared to play. . . . F Steven Da Silva, a product of the Kootenay Ice, is the first freshman in Canada West history to be named the conference’s MVP. Da Silva was the conference’s leading scorer, with 41 points for the Saskatoon-based U of Saskatchewan Huskies.
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Ken King, the president and CEO of the NHL's Calgary Flames, was in Abbotsford on Tuesday, checking out the progress of the arena being built there. The Flames announced last week that they plan on applying to the AHL for permission to move their farm team, the Quad City Flames, to Abbotsford from Moline, Ill. Ian Walker of the Vancouver Sun has the latest right here.