Americans like Kennedy

The Tri-City Americans have acquired F Todd Kennedy, 19, from the Vancouver Giants for a 13th-round selection in the 2010 WHL bantam draft. Kennedy, 6-foot-3 and 212 pounds, was pointless with 16 penalty minutes in seven games with the Giants. In 76 career games with the Regina Pats and Vancouver, he has eight points and 162 penalty minutes. . . . The Americans traded away the draft pick they had acquired Monday from the Prince George Cougars for F Spencer Asuchak. . . . The Americans now are carrying 25 players, including 15 forwards and eight defencemen. . . . The Americans also announced that F Sergei Drozd, 19, will play for Belarussia in the IIHF U-20 Division 1 Group B championship in Gdansk, Poland. That tournament opens Dec. 14. Drozd will leave Dec. 5 and return on Boxing Day, so could miss up to seven games.