Monday . . .

There will be some teams on quick turnarounds over the next couple of days. . . . The Red Deer Rebels, for example, play the Blazers in Kamloops on Tuesday night and then face the Rockets in Kelowna on Wednedsay at 2 p.m. . . . The Prince George Cougars meet the Pats in Regina on Tuesday night and then have to get to Brandon to play the Wheat Kings on Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. . . . The Calgary Hitmen meet the Hurricanes in Lethbridge on Tuesday, 7 p.m., and are at home to the Kootenay Ice on Wednesday at 2 p.m. This is the second time the Hitmen have played in this situation. They beat the Giants 2-0 in Vancouver on the night of Oct. 30 and then dropped a 4-2 decision to the Bruins in Chilliwack on Halloween afternoon. Of course, the Bruins were on the road on Oct. 30, too. They won 7-1 in Kamloops.
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D Brendon Wall of the Prince Albert Raiders sat out three weekend games with a groin injury. He originally suffered the injury in training camp and aggravated it during a game last week. The 19-year-old, who was acquired from the Saskatoon Blades on Oct. 5, hopes to return Wednesday in Swift Current against the Broncos.
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The anatomy of a hockey fight.
John MacNeil of the Prince Albert Daily Herald has a notebook item involving a scrap between Raiders D Tyler Yaworski and D Duncan Siemens of the Blades, who grew up together and were teammates last season with the midget AAA Sherwood Park Kings.
The two ended up in a fight in Saturday’s game.
“The scrap was a good one,” Siemens told MacNeil. “We both took some momentum out of it.
“Yaworski is a tough kid. I kind of called him out and he accepted the challenge. On the bench, actually, I asked him if he wanted to go. I think he thought I was kidding a little bit, because I’ve known him for a while. And then we went out (on the ice) and I said, ‘No, seriously, do you want to go?’ And he was, like, ‘Oh, OK.’ And the puck dropped and off the mitts came.”
Yaworski told MacNeil “it was a little unexpected.
“I honestly didn’t think he was serious, but I’m not going to back down from anyone. I mean, we’re buddies but, on the ice, it’s a little different. That’s kind of my role. I’ve got to battle for my ice time, and I’m OK with fighting once in a while, and sticking up for the boys a bit.”
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A couple of notes from Graham Kendrick of the Portland Winterhawks’ front office:
With 29 saves against Seattle on Sunday, Kurtis Mucha now is just 21 stops away from 6,000 for his career. He leads the Winterhawks in career saves, and is currently seventh among all-time WHL leaders, 979 saves behind career leader Danny Lorenz. . . . Mucha also is tied for seventh in WHL history for games played by a goalie (211), and is ninth in minutes played by a goaltender (11,845).
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Lorne Sanders, a scout for the Chilliwack Bruins, is now part-owner of a hockey team. That story is right here.
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Bob Duff of the Windsor Star, who has been around hockey for a long time and, in fact, once covered the Saskatoon Blades for the StarPhoenix, has a column right here on the situation surrounding the Michael Liambas hit on Ben Fanelli.