Camp notes from Sunday

SOME CAMP NOTES FROM HERE AND THERE:
F Mike Winther, Prince Albert’s first pick in the 2009 WHL bantam draft, had two goals and two assists as his Team White fell 5-4 to Team Black in the Raiders’ intrasquad game on Sunday. . . . The Raiders got down to 36 players with some post-game cuts. That number includes F Mark McNeill and F Ryan Kowalski, who are nursing injuries. . . . D Ryan Button’s goal just 35 seconds into OT ended the intrasquad game.
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C Matt Anholt, 15, is one of the free agents in camp with the Red Deer Rebels. Anholt, from Prince Albert, is the son of longtime WHL head coach Peter Anholt. He was an assistant coach and a head coach with the Rebels in the 1990s. . . . The Rebels have lost F Daulton Siwak, who’ll turn 16 on Oct. 25, with mononucleosis. He likely won’t play again until late September. . . . F Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, who made it to Red Deer on Sunday but is ill, is scheduled to have blood work done Monday. . . . Veteran F Tyler Skauge, an 18-year-old who played 52 games with the Everett Silvertips in 2007-08, didn’t show up for Rebels’ camp.
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D Brady Gaudet, who was taken 10th overall by the Kamloops Blazers in the WHL’s 2009 bantam draft, is on the limp. According to general manager Craig Bonner, Gaudet — it’s pronounced g’day — suffered a “minor knee injury” in a Friday evening scrimmage. Gaudet, from Redvers, Sask., isn’t likely to play in Tuesday’s Blue/White game, but should play in an exhibition game or two on the weekend. The Blazers and Vancouver Giants meet in Ladner, B.C., where the Giants’ practice facility is located, on Friday and back in Kamloops on Saturday.
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The Blazers dropped 34 players on Saturday and Sunday, leaving them with 60 players in camp. Players have been split into three teams and are scrimmaging. . . . Sophomore Brendan Ranford was Sunday’s scoring star, sniping five times in two games and also getting into a scrap, with veteran D Curtis Kulchar. . . . F Dylan Willick, a list player from Prince George, counted three goals in two games, as did veteran forwards Tyler Shattock and Jake Trask. . . . F Mark Hall, who suffered a knee injury in a precamp workout on Aug. 22, 2008, and missed the entire season, scored his first goal of camp in an evening scrimmage.
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D Tyler Yaworski, who didn’t score even one goal last season with the midget AAA Sherwood Park, Alta., Kings, had a goal and an assist to help Team White beat Team Blue, 5-3, in the Saskatoon Blades’ intrasquad game in Aberdeen, Sask. That was his third goal of camp. . . . GM/head coach Lorne Molleken has said he likely will open the season with eight defencemen and, with four spots belonging to capable veterans, Yaworski is fighting for one of the other four berths. The Blades also are awfully high on a pair of 16-year-olds — Duncan Siemens and Dalton Thrower. Siemens was the third overall pick in the 2008 bantam draft, while Thrower was taken with the 30th selection. . . . Thrower will sit for a couple of days, thanks to a bruised kneee. . . . Saskatoon, after Sunday cuts, has 37 players in camp.
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The Regina Pats dropped nine players Sunday, including F Colton Graf, 19, who played 24 games with the Chilliwack Bruins over two seasons (2006-08). . . . The Pats, who will play in a weekend tournament in Edmonton, also have some players on the limp — D Matt Delahey (charleyhorse), F Dominick Favreau (knee), F Jason Gardiner (knee) and F Graham Hood (hand). Only Gardiner is out indefinitely; he is to see a doctor on Monday. . . . The Pats play their annual Blue and White game Tuesday, 7 p.m., at the Lumsden, Sask., Arena. . . . The Pats dropped 39 players on the weekend and now have 52 in camp.
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Jeff Finley, a former WHL and NHL defenceman, is back in the game. Finley spent the last couple of seasons as an assistant coach for the Rockets before resigning over the summer, saying he wanted to spend more time with his family. It turns out that Finley now will try the scouting game. He has signed on with the Detroit Red Wings and will work for them on a part-time basis. He will provide some help, no doubt, for the overworked Marty Stein, a part-time Red Wings scout who works out of Vernon, B.C.
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Former Calgary Flames head coach/assistant coach Jim Playfair, now the head coach of the AHL’s Abbotsford Heat, has been in Red Deer watching his 15-year-old son, Jackson, in the Rebels’ camp.