Sunday . . .

The Tri-City Americans have acquired D Cody Castro, 17, from the Lethbridge Hurricanes on Sunday, surrendering a 2010 sixth-round bantam draft pick in exchange. . . . Castro, from Peoria, Ariz., is scoreless and minus-1 in three games this season. Last season, he had three points and 65 pernalty minutes in 49 games with the Hurricanes. He was an 11th-round pick by Lethbridge in the 2007 draft. . . . The Americans’ roster now is at 27, including 14 forwards and 10 defencemen.
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The Prince Albert Raiders will be without freshman D Emerson Hrynyk for as long as four weeks with the dreaded abdominal strain. Hrynyk, 17, is from Okanagan Falls, B.C. He is pointless in three games this season.
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The Brandon Sun is reporting that F Matt Calvert is in contract negotiations with the NHL’s Columbus Blue Jackets and may not be returning to the Wheat Kings. Calvert, who turns 20 on Dec. 24, picked up four points in four exhibition games with the Blue Jackets. He was a fifth-round selection in the NHL’s 2008 draft. . . . The Sun also reports that the Los Angeles Kings are “leading towards returning” F Brayden Schenn, 18, to the Wheat Kings. He is one of 15 forwards still on the L.A. roster. Schenn was the fifth overall pick in the 2009 NHL draft.
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A note from the QMJHL where the Halifax Mooseheads drew 4,457 fans to a 4-2 loss to the Victoriaville Tigres on Sunday. Matthew Wiest of metronews.ca/halifax reports that this was the first time attendance was below 5,000 “since single-game attendance started being recorded in 2003-04.” Wiest continued: “(Sunday’s crowed) was a stunning 645 fewer than the previous low, set (less than) 24 hours earlier in Saturday’s 5-2 loss to the Gatineau Olympiques. It’s the 12th time the Mooseheads have set a single-game low in attendance since the start of last season.”
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SUNDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS:
In Calgary, F Joel Broda returned to the Hitmen and scored the winner in a 3-2 victory over the Red Deer Rebels. . . . Broda, who scored a WHL-leading 53 goals last season, had been skating with the Hershey Bears, the AHL affiliate of the NHL’s Washington Capitals. Broda also had 11 goals and 13 assists in 18 playoff games last spring. . . . Attendance was 7,416. . . . Red Deer led this one 2-1 going into the third period, only to have Calgary F Tyler Fiddler tie it at 2:55, with his fifth goal of the season, and Broda win it on the PP, at 14:14. . . . Interestingly, Broda and Fiddler both are from Prince Albert. . . . Red Deer, outshot 25-15 in the game, was outshot 6-1 in the first period and 9-2 in the third. . . . The Hitmen have won all four of their games to date. . . . Red Deer D Alex Petrovic will miss at least a month with a high ankle sprain suffered in practice. . . . Broda, who is unsigned, was a fifth-round selection by Washington in the 2008 NHL draft. “You can never have enough 53-goal scorers,” Calgary forward Ian Schultz told the Calgary Herald’s John Down. . . . The Hitmen went with Michael Snider in goal after starter Martin Jones suffered an ankle injury in Friday’s 5-4 shootout victory over the Tigers in Medicine Hat. Jones could be sidelined for up to 10 days.
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In Portland, the Winterhawks went 4-for-6 on the power play and beat the Prince George Cougars, 5-1. . . . Attendance was 1,552. . . . The Winterhawks got their first goal — from F Riley Boychuk — just 23 seconds into the first period. . . . G Kurtis Mucha stopped 21 shots for Portland. . . . Mucha has won back-to-back starts for the first time since Dec. 31 and Jan. 2 when he posted home-ice victories over the Seattle Thunderbirds and Everett Silvertips. . . . Portland D Troy Rutkowski drew two assists and now has five points in four games. . . . Portland F Luke Walker had a goal, his fifth, and a helper. . . . Walker’s goal, at 16:29 of the first period, was Portland’s third straight on the PP and gave the hosts a 4-0 lead. At that point, Portland held a 19-3 edge in shots.
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In Regina, the Saskatoon Blades scored three third-period goals and beat the Pats, 4-1. . . . The Blades got a goal and two assists from F Josh Nicholls as he was in on all three third-period goals. . . . Attendance was 3,340. . . . The Pats learned after the game that the NHL’s Edmonton Oilers were returning F Jordan Eberle to them. Eberle, a pure sniper, is expected to play Wednesday against the Raiders in Prince Albert. . . . According to Greg Harder of the Regina Leader-Post: “The Pats used three defencemen up front (Myles Bell, Justin Slobozian and Dominic Perrault) to replace RW Garrett Mitchell (hand) and LWs Graham Hood and Michal Poletin (both healthy).”