Sunday . . . and some good reading!

D Jeff Einhorn of the Chilliwack Bruins remained in a Kelowna hospital Sunday night after being injured in an exhibition game against the Kelowna Rockets on Saturday. Doyle Potenteau of the Kelowna Daily Courier reports that Einhorn, 19, who has played two seasons with the Bruins, was struck in the throat by an errant stick in the second period and experienced breathing problems. “I didn’t see the incident, but when he came off the ice, he was holding his throat,” Chilliwack athletic therapist Matt Auerbach told Potenteau. “Obviously I asked him how he was doing, and he couldn’t answer me. And when he couldn’t answer, I asked him to start coughing. And when he started coughing — that way, his airway was being cleared — his face started turning a little more red and a little more purple. At that time, I took him to the dressing room and I called for a doctor.” . . . Dr. Mike Ertel attended, paramedics arrived and Einhorn was transported to hospital by ambulance. . . . Einhorn, who is from Red Deer, has been joined by his parents at Kelowna General Hospital. . . . “Our trainer and the doctor did just a tremendous job,” Chilliwack GM/head coach Marc Habscheid told Potenteau. “Our trainer identified that he needed some help from the doctor. So the doctor came down, looked at him and dealt with the situation. They put him into an ambulance and took him to the hospital. He was having some difficulty, for sure, but it was a serious enough of an incident . . . we’re lucky our trainer and the doctor did the good jobs they did, and Jeff’s going to be fine because of that.”
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So far, D Zach Tjader, a product of the Kamloops Minor Hockey Association, has shown up on three different training camp rosters and, so far, made it to a pair of camps. Tjader, 16, started out in the camp of the Kamloops Blazers and, when they got down in numbers, joined the Tri-City Americans. In fact, he scored for Team White in a 5-2 loss to Team Blue in their rookie scrimmage on Saturday. . . . One of the guest coaches for that game was former Americans G Carey Price. . . . Tjader’s name also was on the training camp roster of the junior B Kamloops Storm, which plays in the Kootenay International junior league. The Americans open their main camp Monday and Tjader isn’t on the roster. Perhaps he is on his way to join the Storm, which wraps up its camp Monday and plays an exhibition game Tuesday in Princeton against the Posse.
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A regular reader of this blog who lives in Portland has been keeping me up to date on the great debate going on there involving whether or not to demolish Memorial Coliseum, whether or not to build a new baseball park, whether or not to build at soccer facility and on and on. . . . (Hey, the Portland great debate makes what went on in Moose Jaw seem like a breath of fresh air.) . . . But we digress. . . . The last emailing received in these parts included a couple of interesting tidbits. . . . For example, did you know that the city’s Water Bureau offices are located in a building that leaks? David Sarasohn of The Oregonian has that and more right here. . . . Meanwhile, on a blog called Portland Architecture, there is a piece on Memorial Coliseum that included a neat anecdote on how the Beatles’ 1965 Portland show just about didn’t happen. You can read that right here.
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The line of Aaron Lewadniuk, Matt Calvert and Scott Glennie combined for seven points as Team Black beat Team White 4-1 in the Brandon Wheat Kings’ training camp-ending intrasquad game. . . . Attendance was about 900. . . . Lewadniuk had two goals, while Glennie drew three assists and Calvert had a goal and an assist. . . . After the game, the Wheat Kings trimmed their roster to 34, including four goaltenders and 20 forwards. The Wheat Kings also are looking at having nine players attend NHL camps.
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In Spokane, F Mitch Wahl scored twice and set up another as Team Red got past Team White — sorry, wasn’t able to figure out the score from the press release — in the Chiefs’ annual intrasquad scrimmage. . . . Attendance at the free scrimmage was 2,113. . . . Levko Koper added a goal and two helpers for the winners. . . . Connor Chartier, a second-round pick in the 2009 bantam draft had two goals for Team White. . . . F Dominik Uher, the Chiefs’ lone pick in the 2009 CHL import draft, had a goal for Team Red.
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The Edmonton Oil Kings dumped the Medicine Hat Tigers 5-3 Sunday in St. Albert, Alta. The Oil Kings, who played host to the six-team exhibition tournament, went 3-0. . . . In Sunday’s other game, the Swift Current Broncos got past the Regina Pats, 8-7, in a shootout.
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The Prince George Cougars have lost D Dallas Jackson, 20, for up to six weeks with a separated shoulder. He was injured in a fight during camp on Saturday. . . . As well, F Brett Connolly continues to have problems with a hip flexor. The injury bothered him while he was with Canada’s U-18 team at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial tournament earlier in August. As a result, the Cougars are holding Connolly out of action for the time being.
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You may be aware of a book that is soon to hit stores everywhere. It is titled Leafs AbomiNation: The Dismayed Fan's Handbook to Why the Leafs Stink and How They Can Rise Again. . . . Written by Dave Feschuk and Michael Grange, a couple of excerpts appeared in Toronto papers over the weekend and they’re worth a read. Here’s one from the Toronto Star, and here’s another from The Globe and Mail. . . . Enjoy!