Friday . . .

THE MacBETH REPORT: D Reagan Rome (Moose Jaw/Saskatoon 1998-2000) re-signed with Weisswasser (Germany 2.Bundesliga). He had four goals and 15 assists in 39 games last season. The contract is for one year.
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The Everett Silvertips are in the market for an assistant coach with the news that Mark LeRose, who has been on staff for two seasons, has resigned. According to Everett GM Doug Soetaert, LeRose has signed with the AHL affiliate of an NHL team. LeRose, 39, joined the Silvertips after working with the U of Wisconsin Badgers and the USHL’s Sioux Falls Stampede. . . . Soetaert signed long-time pro and junior coach Craig Hartsburg as the Silvertips’ head coach earlier this summer. . . .
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The Canadian national junior team’s summer camp opens Wednesday and runs through Aug. 10 at Credit Union Central in Saskatoon. . . . F Steffan Della Rovere, who played on last year’s team, has a shoulder injury so won’t be on the ice; his spot will be taken by F Cody Eakin of the Swift Current Broncos. . . .
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The Portland Winter Hawks have signed RW Taylor Leier and LW Nino Niederreiter. . . . Leier, from Saskatoon, was the 24th pick in the 2009 bantam draft. He had 137 points in 62 games with the Saskatoon Outlaws last season. His father, Tim, was a hockey and football player of note back in the day at the U of Saskatchewan. His WHL career consisted of one game with the Medicine Hat Tigers (1979-80)in which he had a goal and an assist . . . Niederreiter was the second overall pick in the 2009 CHL import draft. According to a Winter Hawks’ press release: “A native of Switzerland, Niederreiter amassed 12 points in six games with the Davos U18 team in the Swiss Elite Novizen league last season, before moving up to the Davos U20 team in the Elite Jr. A league, where he totaled 20 goals and 14 assists for 34 points in 30 games. In 2007-08, he had six points in five games for the U20 squad after registering 39 goals and 26 assists for 65 points in 32 games with the U18 team. Niederreiter played for the Swiss team at this year’s Under-18 World Championship, where he amassed three goals and three assists for six points in six games.”