Friday's over . . .

With a number of players having left for NHL camps or about to leave, the Kamloops Blazers and Kelowna Rockets will each dress only nine forwards, as opposed to the normal 12, for an Saturday night exhibition game in the Little Apple. Each team also will dress two goaltenders and six defencemen. . . . G Adam Brown, who turns 18 on Oct. 12, will make his fourth straight start for the Rockets. Brown backed up Mark Guggenberger last season. Guggenberger, 20, reported to training camp with a sore groin and has yet to play.
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The Everett Silvertips have claimed F Travis Dunstall, 20, on waivers from the Medicine Hat Tigers. Dunstall had been told not to report to the Tigers’ camp as they were attempting to trade him. He has been skating with the AJHL’s Grande Prairie Storm. . . . Dunstall, selected 16th overall by the Kamloops Blazers in the 2004 bantam draft, had 49 points and 103 penalty minutes in 61 games with the Tigers last season. . . . He is due in Everett on Saturday and could possibly play in an exhibition game that night against the Seattle Thunderbirds. His arrival will leave the Silvertips with five 20-year-olds, the others being F Zack Dailey, F Shane Harper, F Alex Poulter and D Colin Scherger.
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The Silvertips also signed D Evan Morden, a 16-year-old from Swan River, Man., who was a seventh-round selection in the 2008 bantam draft. He had 16 points in 42 games for the midget AAA Parkland Rangers in Manitoba last season.
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The Medicine Hat Tigers have decided that they aren’t going to release the names of players who are released. According to the Medicine Hat News, “The Tigers cut 26 players early in the week but requested that their names not be publicized.” . . . Willie Desjardins, the Tigers’ general manager and head coach, told The News: “I’m not going to announce any cuts publicly. I just feel like why do I want everybody in the city to know some poor kid got cut. It’s a tough thing. If it’s a veteran player then it’s different. These other guys, (fans) don’t know about them anyhow.”
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The Lethbridge Hurricanes and Calgary Hitmen will meet Saturday in an exhibition game in Coleman, Alta., that will feature something of a brother act. . . . Veteran F Kyle Beach of the Hurricanes will be facing his brother Cody, a third-round pick in the 2007 bantam draft who is working to make the Hitmen.
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EVERETT SCORES: Seattle goaltenders Jacob DeSerres and Kyle Jahraus combined for 35 saves as the Thunderbirds edged the Prince George Cougars 3-2 to open the annual tournament in Everett. G James Priestner stopped 19 shots for the Cougars. . . . F Radim Valchar had two goals as the Portland Winterhawks beat the Spokane Chiefs, 3-2. The Chiefs got 43 saves from G James Reid, who will head for the Vancouver Canucks’ camp later in the weekend. . . . In the late game, the host Silvertips got 32 saves from G Kent Simpson as they doubled the Tri-City Americans, 4-2. G Drew Owsley stopped 22 shots for the Americans.
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OTHER EXHIBITION GAMES: In Stettler, Alta., F Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, the first pick in the 2008 bantam draft, had two goals to lead the Red Deer Rebels to a 5-4 shootout victory over the Edmonton Oil Kings. Nugent-Hopkins skated between 20-year-old wingers Nathan Green and Jordie Deagle. . . . In Swift Current, the Moose Jaw Warriors built up a 4-0 lead and hung on to beat the Broncos, 4-3. Swift Current mustered just 18 shots on goal, with veteran Jeff Bosch making 15 saves. The Warriors lost veteran F Cody Smuk to injury on a late-game shot block and will be evaluated Saturday before a decision is made as to whether he will play in that night’s rematch in Moose Jaw. . . . F Michael Ferland, a 17-year-old freshman who is from Brandon, scored the winner in a shootout as the Wheat Kings edged the visiting Regina Pats, 4-3. Brandon was playing for the first time in the exhibition season, while Regina is winless in four starts, although two of the losses have come in the circus. . . . In Prince Albert, the Raiders scored three third-period goals and beat the Medicine Hat Tigers, 5-3. F Igor Revenko scored twice for the Raiders. . . . In Coleman, Alta., Austin Madaisky and Jessi Hilton each scored twice as the Calgary Hitmen beat the Kootenay Ice, 5-3. The Ice went into the third period with a 3-1 lead.