Wednesday . . . early

All WHL teams make hospital visits or drop in an chat with people who, for one reason or another, are shut-ins, unable to get out to hockey games like the rest of us. Right here is the story of one such visit.
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Two WHL teams were involved in some deal-making Wednesday, with three players and a bantam draft pick changing hands. Not that it matters a whole lot, but the Moose Jaw Warriors report that they made two separate trades with the Medicine Hat Tigers, who report that it was one trade. . . . Anyway, here is what went on. . . . According to the Warriors, they dealt F Matt MacKay, 19, to the Tigers for F Mike Forsyth, 17. And, in a separate deal, they sent G Deven Dubyk, 18, to the Tigers for a 2010 sixth-round bantam draft pick. . . . According to the Tigers, the whole thing was one transaction. . . . MacKay is the son of former Warriors F Mark MacKay. Matt left a Calgary junior A in the middle of last season to join the Warriors and had nine points in 31 games with Moose Jaw. Forsyth was an eighth-round pick in the 2007 bantam draft. Forsyth, who played one game with the Tigers last season, is with the AJHL’s Camrose Kodiaks. . . . Dubyk is with the SJHL’s Notre Dame Hounds. He played in 35 games with Moose Jaw last season, putting up a 4.57 GAA and a .866 save percentage. The Brandon Wheat Kings selected him in the 11th round of the 2006 bantam draft. . . . The Tigers, with an inordinate number of 16- and 19-year-old players, along with five 20-year-olds, including G Ryan Holfeld, would appear to be on the verge of a few more moves.