Friday . . .

THE MacBETH REPORT: F Marc Brown (Spokane, Prince Albert, 1996-99) has signed a contract for the rest of this season with Alleghe (Italy Serie A). He had five goals and two assists in 13 games with Graz (Austria Erste Bank Liga) and one assist in two games with Langenthal (Swiss NL B) last season.
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A book involving the history of the Regina Pats was launched Thursday in the Queen City. Greg Harder of the Regina Leader-Post has that story right here.
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This press release, issued Friday, pretty much says it all:
“The Swift Current Broncos have parted ways with 17 year old forward Dane Muench.
“The decision is a mutual one between the organization and Muench, citing personal reasons. At this point it is undetermined where or if Muench will continue to play hockey.”
Actually, it doesn’t say a whole lot, does it?
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The Central league’s Texas Brahmas have signed F James Hiebert (Swift Current, 1998-2003), who played the last six seasons with the Laredo Bucks.
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FRIDAY:
In Prince Albert, the Raiders got out to a 4-0 lead as they beat the Regina Pats, 4-1. . . . F Igor Revenko scored his 11th goal of the season for the Raiders, who led 1-0 and 2-0 at the breaks and then got the first two goals of the third period. . . . It was Regina’s third game in Prince Albert already this season. The Pats won’t visit that city again this season. . . . Prince Albert G Garrett Zemlak stopped 41 shots. He lost his shutout bid late in the third period, ending his shutout streak at 135:20. . . . Attendance was 2,055. . . . The Raiders (9-8-0-0) have won four in a row overall and six in a row at home. . . . Raiders F Mark McNeill, the fifth overall pick in the 2008 bantam draft, scored his first WHL goal. . . . The Pats (6-9-2-0) are fifth and last in the East Division. . . . Among Regina’s scratches were F Graham Hood and D Myles Bell, both of whom have the flu.
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In Kelowna, F Kyle Beach returned home and picked up two points to lead the Spokane Chiefs to a 4-3 victory over the Rockets. . . . Beach, who is from Kelowna, had two goals and an assist. . . . C Tyler Johnson had Spokane’s other two goals. . . . The Chiefs are 6-5-1-0. . . . D Tyson Barrie scored both goals for Kelowna (8-7-1-0), which was coming off a 4-1 victory over the visiting Calgary Hitmen on Wednesday. . . . G Michael Tadjdeh stopped 31 shots for the Chiefs. . . . Attendance was 6,123.
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In Kamloops, the Chilliwack Bruins got goals from seven players as they dismantled the Blazers, 7-1. . . . Kamloops (8-8-2-0) was playing its first game under interim head coach Scott Ferguson, the assistant who replaced the fired Barry Smith on Monday. . . . The Blazers have lost six in a row. . . . The Bruins (6-6-1-3) lost starting G Lucas Gore to an apparent left arm injury midway through the second period. GM/head coach Marc Habscheid seemed to think Gore would be fine. . . . Attendance was 4,261.
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In Prince George, G Hudson Stremmel stopped 34 shots in his first WHL appearance but it wasn’t enough as his Cougars fell 3-2 to the Tri-City Americans. . . . F Jordan Messier scored the winner on the PP with 15.5 seconds left in the third period. . . . The Cougars (3-11-0-0) had tied the game at 7:49 of the third on a PP goal by D Dallas Jackson. . . . But it was Jackson who was off for high-sticking when Messier scored his seventh goal of the season. . . . Attendance was 1,946. . . . The Americans (12-3-0-0) have won seven straight games over the Cougars. . . . Stremmel, an 18-year-old from Reno, Nevada, left Colorado College last weekend and joined the Cougars earlier this week. . . . Tri-City G Drew Owsley stopped 25 shots. He has played all of the Americans’ games this season.
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In Cranbrook, F Dustin Sylvester’s PP goal at 17:47 of the third period broke a 1-1 tie as the Kootenay Ice edged the Brandon Wheat Kings, 2-1. . . . The Wheat Kings (9-7-0-2) are 3-2-0-1 on a seven-game swing that wraps up Saturday in Lethbridge. . . . The Ice got its other goal from the Ice (6-11-0-0). Kootenay now has beaten Brandon twice this season. . . . Kootenay G Todd Mathews stopped 29 shots, including shorthanded breakaways by F Jay Fehr and F Matt Calvert. . . . Brandon GM/head coach Kelly McCrimmon told the Brandon Sun’s Rob Henderson that a whistle should have preceded what turned into the winning goal. “On the entry into the zone the puck went up in the air and a Kootenay player high-sticked the puck and it wasn’t called,” McCrimmon said. . . . Attendance was 2,400.
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In Red Deer, F Josh Cowen scored two goals 18 seconds apart just past the midway point of the first period to get the Rebels started to a 4-2 victory over the Medicine Hat Tigers. . . . F Willie Coetzee had a goal, his ninth, and two assists for Red Deer (8-8-0-0), which welcomed back F Landon Ferraro, who had one assist. He had missed 10 games with a knee injury. . . . One week earlier, the Tigers, playing at home, beat the Rebels, 9-2. . . . Cowen, playing on a line with Coetzee and freshman Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, has five goals this season. . . . Coetzee is riding an 11-game point streak and his 29 points this season have him just a point back of WHL scoring leader Brandon Kozun of the Calgary Hitmen. . . . With the Red Wings in Calgary on Saturday, Detroit executives Steve Yzerman and Ken Holland were in Red Deer as the NHL team holds the rights to Ferraro and Coetzee. . . . The Tigers (8-6-2-2) held a 17-2 edge in shots in the third period but could only beat G Darcy Kuemper once. He finished with 44 saves. . . . Attendance was 4,413.
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In Moose Jaw, the Warriors erased a 3-2 deficit with five straight goals and beat the Swift Current Broncos, 7-3. . . . The Warriors (11-5-0-0) got a goal and two assists from each of F Quinton Howden and D Ryan Stanton, and two goals from F Brendan Rowinski, who has 10 scores this season. . . . F Cody Eakin, who has a WHL-high 17 goals, scored twice for the Broncos (9-7-0-2), who are 0-6-0-1 on the road. . . . Swift Current G Morgan Clark sat out this one with the flu. He was on the bench but couldn’t play, so G Alexandre Simard went the distance. . . . The Warriors were without F Cody Smuk, F Riley Reinbolt and D Dylan McIlrath with the flu. . . . After the game, Moose Jaw head coach Dave Hunchak and six Moose Jaw players had their heads shaved at centre ice. It all was part of a cancer fund-raiser that raised more than $9,000. . . . Attendance was 2,361.
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In Lethbridge, the Seattle Thunderbirds won for the first time on the road this season, beating the Hurricanes, 4-3. . . . The Thunderbirds, 4-10-0-2 overall, now are 1-6-0-1 away from home. . . . Seattle got its first goal, from F Jonathan Parker, just 20 seconds into the first period. The Hurricanes (5-10-2-0) lost G Linden Rowat with an injury to his right leg on the play and left the game. . . . Rowat is expected to be off the leg over the weekend and will be re-assessed early next week. . . . Brandon Anderson finished up for Lethbridge. He made 21 saves. . . . Seattle G Kyle Jarhaus, making his first start this season, stopped 35 shots. . . . Seattle, which got a goal and two assists from F Brendan Rouse, took a 4-1 lead into the third period. . . . Lethbridge F Mitch Maxwell scored once and added an assist in the third period as the Hurricanes got to within one. . . . Attendance was 3,244. . . . According to the Thunderbirds, they scratched six players with the flu and had several players experience flu-like symptoms during the game.
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In Saskatoon, the Blades got goals from five players as they beat the Edmonton Oil Kings, 5-2. . . . On Tuesday, the Blades had goals from seven different players in a 7-2 victory over the visiting Medicine Hat Tigers. . . . Blades captain Derek Hulak figured in the game’s first three goals, scoring once and setting up two others, as the home side took a 3-0 lead into the third period. . . . Edmonton (7-9-0-2) got to within one in the third period before Saskatoon put it away with two late goals. . . . F Walker Wintoneak also had a goal and two helpers for Saskatoon. . . . Attendance was 4,414. . . . Saskatoon (11-3-0-2) has won five in a row at home. . . . Cory Wolfe of the Saskatoon StarPhoenix reports that the Blades line of Hulak, Wintoneak and Gaelan Patterson has been together for 10 games and has 54 points over t hat stretch.
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In Vancouver, G Martin Jones stopped 33 shots as the Calgary Hitmen blanked the Giants, 2-0. . . . The shutout was the first of the season for Jones and the ninth of his career. . . . Calgary (13-4-0-0) leads the Eastern Conference by two points over Saskatoon. . . . The Giants (10-4-1-2) are the second seed in the Western Conference, a point behind the Tri-City Americans. However, the Portland Winterhawks (12-5-0-0), who were idle Friday, are tied with the Americans, with 24 points. Tri-City, however, has a better winning percentage (.800) than the Winterhawks (.706). . . . Calgary got goals from F Brandon Kozun, shorthanded, at 11:39 of the first period and F Ian Schultz, an empty-netter at 19:25 of the third. . . . Vancouver G Jamie Tucker made 20 saves. . . . Attendance was 7,634.