Questions, questions . . .

Questions, questions . . . we’ve got questions . . .

1. Has any head coach ever had a rougher initiation to the WHL than Guy Charron, who watched his Kamloops Blazers take a 4-0 lead into the third period before losing 6-5 in a shootout to the visiting Kootenay Ice on Friday?

2. How is it that those same Blazers, who are hardly tough to play against, are leading the WHL in penalty minutes again?

3. When Team WHL played the Russians in Kelowna on Thursday night, why wouldn’t the coaching staff simply roll four lines all game long and play whichever line was up on the power play?

4. Or had the decisions already been made as to whose names will be on the list of invitees when Hockey Canada announces Wednesday just who it is who will attend the selection camp in December?

5. What really happened with Tiger Woods and his wife, and how long are we going to have to read and hear about this mess? Will Tiger show up Tuesday for a scheduled news conference that originally was to have kicked off the Chevron World Challenge, a tournament to which he is playing host? Will all of the world’s media put in an appearance?

6. When Lorne Molleken appears on the Saskatoon Blades’ bench at Credit Union Central, does the music man salute the club’s GM/head coach by playing Sharp Dressed Man by ZZ Top?

7. The Regina Pats won again in the U.S. Division on Friday night and now are three games over .500 and up to fifth in the Eastern Conference. Regina is 4-1 on a six-game swing that ends tonight against the Chiefs in Spokane. Is this the road trip on which the Pats discover their mojo?

8. The Brandon Wheat Kings go into Swift Current tonight having won four in a row. Is this the Wheat Kings team everyone has been waiting to see?

9. Thanks to loser points, 15 of the WHL’s 22 teams are shown with winning percentages of .500 or better, when there really are 12 teams with as many or more victories than losses. So far, 56 loser points have been handed out, which is 8.5 per cent of all points. When is someone in hockey going to realize just how badly these loser points distort everything?

10. Is Landon Ferraro back? The Red Deer sniper, who scored 37 goals last season, was bothered by a wonky knee early on. He got his fourth goal of this season on Friday. It looks like about eight teams will battle for the Eastern Conference’s last five playoff spots and he could be a difference-maker.

11. How badly do the Lethbridge Hurricanes miss goaltender Linden Rowat? The 20-year-old has ligament damage in an ankle and won’t play again until after the Christmas break.

12. The Calgary Hitmen lost their third game in a row Friday night, and who saw that coming?

13. And, finally . . . with a name like Steele Boomer, the Kootenay Ice forward has to be tougher than Chuck Norris, doesn’t he?