More from Wednesday . . .

I referred to Nathan Green, who was dealt from Brandon to Red Deer on Tuesday, as a defenceman. He is, of course, a 20-year-old forward who had 59 points, including 24 goals, for the Wheat Kings last season. . . . The Rebels now have five 20-year-olds on their roster — Green, D Cullen Morin, F Jordie Deagle, F Cody Esposito and F Cody Gross. . . .
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The NHL’s Columbus Blue Jackets have signed D Brett Regner to a three-year contract. Regner, 20, had 67 points in 70 games with the Vancouver Giants last season. Columbus selected him in the fifth round of the 2008 NHL draft. . . .
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The Kelowna Rockets aren’t counting on LW Teemu Pulkkinen, their top pick in the CHL’s import draft on Tuesday, for the 2009-10 season. Pulkkinen, 17, is under contract with Jokerit of Helsinki and it’s expected that he will play there in the country’s top league.
“At 50, I don’t expect to get much,” Bruce Hamilton, the Rockets’ president and general manager, told Doyle Potenteau of the Kelowna Daily Courier. “I like Finnish players because they always seem to play with a bit of bite to their game, so we picked a skilled guy who is signed. Our goal is to get him for (2010-11). It’d be great to get him over here for training camp, but then . . . if he likes it, he has to get out of that contract. Still, he’ll be a good NHL draft pick (in 2010). Our initial reports are that he could be a fairly early draft pick next year, so rather than pick a guy who we’re going to bring over for a month and a half, then send him home — I can have a North American guy play that position — with European players, you’d like to have them on your first two lines.” . . . Pulkkinen was the 50th selection in the import draft. . . . The Rockets will have RW Stepan Novotny back for a second season. Novotny, who is from Czech Republic, wasn’t selected in the 2009 NHL draft. He will turn 19 on Sept. 24.