Tuesday . . .

THE MacBETH REPORT: D Dwayne Newman (Brandon/Victoria) signed a one-year contract extension with the Peterborough Phantoms (England Premier). He had one goal and 26 assists in 54 games with the Phantoms this season. Newman will be entering his 14th season in England and his third with Peterborough.
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JUST NOTES: The Kamloops Blazers announced the signing of three draft picks Tuesday. D Brady Gaudet of Redvers, Sask., was Kamloops’ first-round selection, 10th overall, in the 2009 bantam draft. F Logan McVeigh of Kenaston, Sask., was the team’s second-round pick, 32nd overall. D Max Mowat of Winfield, B.C., played with the major midget Okanagan Rockets and, at 16, is eligible to play for the Blazers in 2009-10.
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THE COACHING GAME: Darryl Sutter, the Calgary Flames’ general manager, met with the media Tuesday, four days after firing head coach Mike Keenan. Sutter, who seemed to point to himself as the leading candidate to replace Keenan, confirmed that he also dumped the Flames’ assistant coaches. That would include former Regina Pats head coach Rich Preston. Sutter said that Jim Playfair, the former Portland Winter Hawks defenceman who moved from assistant to head coach to assistant with the Flames, will be given the opportunity to coach the Abbotsford Heat, Calgary’s AHL affiliate. The Heat is on the move after playing out of Moline, Ill., as the Quad City Flames. The fact that Playfair will be given the chance to coach the Heat would seem to indicate that former Kootenay Ice head coach Ryan McGill, who was Quad City’s head coach, won’t be returning. . . .
The Edmonton Oilers introduced Pat Quinn, who owns a piece of the Vancouver Giants, as their head coach on Tuesday. Former Kamloops Blazers head coach Tom Renney was named associate coach, while former Moose Jaw Warriors F Kelly Buchberger remains as assistant coach. . . . Bill Moores lost his spot on the Oilers’ bench in the shuffle in Edmonton. Moores, a former GM/head coach of the Regina Pats, is one of hockey’s all-time good guys. . . . The Oilers have said that they may hire another assistant coach which means, yes, the rumours have started involving the possibility of Giants head coach Don Hay moving there. Hay was an assistant coach under Renney with the Kamloops Blazers in the 1990s. . . .
The Spokane Chiefs have signed former WHL and NHL defenceman Jon Klemm as an assistant coach under sophomore head coach Hardy Sauter. The vacancy was created when the Chiefs announced May 6 that Leigh Mendelson’s contract wouldn’t be renewed. Klemm spent three seasons with the Chiefs and was the captain of the team that won the 1991 Memorial Cup. He also won two Stanley Cups, with the Colorado Avalanche (1996, 2001). He spent this season playing in Germany. . . . Greg Harder of the Regina Leader-Post reports that there are three leading candidates for the Regina Pats' assistant coach's position alongside head coach Curtis Hunt, who signed with the club earlier this week. According to Harder, those getting immediate attention include Gerad Adams, a former Pats defenceman who also was team captain and now is head coach of the Carndiff Devils of the Elite League in Britain, Dean Brockman, the GM/head coach of the SJHL-champion Humboldt Broncos, and former Brandon Wheat Kings assistant coach Mark Johnston. Former Pats D Jamie Heward is the leading candidate to fill the role of part-time assistant; however, it’s believed that Heward would like to play one more season in the NHL.