Monday . . .

THE MacBETH REPORT: F Adam Breitkreuz (Calgary) signed with Duisburg (Germany 2.Bundesliga). He had five goals and five assists in 23 games for Briercrest College (Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference) in 2007-08. Breitkreuz holds dual German-Canadian citizenship. . . . D Ryan Bonne (Saskatoon) signed a one-year contract with Pontebba (Italy Serie A1). He had two goals and 11 assists in 42 games for Alba Volan Szekesfehervar (Hungary, plays in Austria Erste Bank Liga) last season.
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The Ottawa Senators signed F Alexei Kovalev to a two-year contract worth US$10 million. Just wonder . . . but exactly who was Ottawa bidding against that the price got that high? . . .
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Gavin Hamilton, the Kelowna Rockets’ vice-president of business development, would appear to have his eyes on moving into the coaching business. Even though his coaching record in the club’s annual alumni game now is 2-6. Steamer’s Stallions, with D Shea Weber scoring the winner in a shootout, beat Gav’s Gunners 12-11 on Sunday. The Stallions were coached Neil Schmidt, the head pro at Tower Ranch. After the game, Hamilton pointed the finger (in fact, he pointed all of his fingers) at the zebras. “We came close, but the referees weren’t on the ball tonight,” Hamilton told the Kelowna Daily Courier’s Doyle Potenteau. “I know I’ll probably get fined by the league for that, but they seemed to spend a lot of their time at the far side of the rink.” . . . And who were the referees? That would be Rockets head coach Ryan Huska and assistant Kim Gellert.
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The Prince Albert Raiders have dealt LW James Dobrowolski, 19, and a 2010 fourth-round bantam draft pick to the Prince George Cougars for C Justin Maylan, 18, and a 2010 sixth-round bantam pick. Dobrowolski had 27 points, including 11 goals, in 72 games last season, while Maylan had 33 points, 16 of them goals, in 70 games. Maylan, from Calgary, had been acquired from the Moose Jaw Warriors, who selected him 17th overall in the 2006 bantam draft. Dobrowolski, from Vernon, B.C., was taken 48th overall by the Raiders in 2005.
The Cougars acquired Maylan, F Brad Riege and a 2008 first-round bantam draft pick (D Jesse Forsberg, taken 11th overall) from Moose Jaw for D Ty Wishart and F Evan Fuller.
"We've been looking for a left winger for quite some time, and we drafted one last week (in the CHL import draft, Jaroslav Vlach)," Cougars GM told Jim Swanson, the sports editor of the Prince George Citizen. "We have added two 6-foot-3 guys and we're hoping one of them can play up on the top line. Dobrowolski can play in our top six for sure and he'll get a little better opportunity here. He's a good kid, we add some size -- we're not huge up front, but we're getting bigger."
Thompson also indicated that he really wanted that first-round pick from Moose Jaw in the Wishart deal and that, perhaps, Maylan wasn’t a good fit in P.G.
"The prize was the first-rounder, that player will turn out to be very good here, and I don't think it was a match made in heaven between our team and Justin," Thompson told Swanson. "There were some run-ins and not everything went as smooth as it could've or should've, and we've been looking for that left-winger we could bring in with size."
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D Tyler Myers of the Kelowna Rockets tells the Buffalo News that he is intent on making the Sabres’ roster for the 2009-10 season. That story is right here.
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It’s been more than a couple of weeks since this story appeared in the Toronto Star. But it’s definitely worth a read. There have long been muffled accusations about cheating when it comes to the drafting and recruiting of players by major junior teams. The OHL, it seems, is going to try to investigate some of this stuff.