Saturday . . .

THE MacBETH REPORT: F Brady Leavold (Swift Current, Kelowna, 2003-08) asked for and has been granted his release by the Tilburg Trappers (Netherlands) so he can return home to attend to family matters. He had one goal in two games for the Trappers. . . . F Igor Bacek (Tri-City, 2005-06) signed a contract for the rest of the season with Landsberg (Germany Oberliga). He had one goal and two assists in 10 games with MHC Martin (Slovakia Extraliga) this season. . . . F Mark Rooneem (Kamloops, Calgary, 1999-2003) signed a contract for the rest of the season with the Newcastle Vipers (UK Elite). He had no points in two games with the Texas Brahmas (Central Hockey League) this season. . . . F Tyler Redenbach (Prince George, Swift Current, Lethbridge, 2001-05) signed a one-year contract extension with SaiPa Lappeenranta (Finland SM-Liiga). His contract now goes through the end of next season. Redenbach has one goal and 15 assists in 21 games with SaiPa this season.
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G Torrie Jung of the Edmonton Oil Kings made his NHL debut Saturday night with the Edmonton Oilers. No, he didn’t get into the game. But he did replace Nikolai Khabibulin, who has a wonky back, and backed up Jeff Deslauriers. There’s a bit more right here.
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SATURDAY:
In Moose Jaw, the Brandon Wheat Kings went five rounds before beating the Warriors 5-4 in a shootout. . . . Brandon’s first and fifth shooters, F Scott Glennie and F Jay Fehr, scored, while Moose Jaw’s first shooter, F Quinton Howden, did the same. . . . Brandon F Matt Calvert forced OT with his 17th goal at 19:33 of the third period. . . . That goal came less than two minutes after Moose Jaw F Brandon Rowinski got his 17th on the PP to give the Warriors a 4-3 lead. . . . Attendance was 2,131. . . . The victory lifted Brandon (16-10-0-2) into third in the Eastern Conference, one point ahead of the idle Medicine Hat Tigers. . . . The Wheat Kings have won three in a row for the second time this season. . . . The Warriors are 15-9-1-1. The loser point lifted them to within a point of the Tigers. . . . Brandon F Toni Rajala scored twice for the second straight game. He has 12 on the season. . . . Brandon G Jacob De Serres stopped 38 shots through OT. . . . The Warriors remain without F Jason Bast, who has undergone surgery to repair a broken facial bone. . . . Among Brandon’s scratches was F Paul Van de Velde (ill).
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In Cranbrook, F Cody Eakin and F Justin Dowling each had two goals and an assist as the Broncos beat the Kootenay Ice, 6-2. . . . It was the first road victory of the season for the Broncos (13-11-0-2), who are 1-8-0-2 away from home. . . . The Ice is 11-13-1-1. . . . Eakin has a WHL-leading 24 goals, while Dowling has 15. . . . Attendance was 2,621. . . . The Broncos were 2-for-10 on the PP; the Ice was 1-for-6. . . . Swift Current, which has beaten the Ice in six straight games, held a 35-19 edge in shots. . . . The teams engaged in one of those multiple-fight situations at 7:15 of the second period. Ch-ch-ching! Both teams can expect to hear from Richard Doerksen, the WHL’s hanging judge. . . . Swift Current D Reece Scarlett suffered a broken nose in the melee and had to be taken to hospital where his nose apparently was rebroken and then set.
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In Red Deer, F Nathan Green’s ninth goal broke a 2-2 tie at 9:02 of the third period and gave the Rebels a 3-2 victory over the Spokane Chiefs. . . . G Darcy Kuemper stopped 34 shots for the Rebels (12-12-0-0), 14 more than Spokane’s Michael Tadjdeh. . . . Spokane F Tyler Johnson had forged a 2-2 tie with a PP score at 5:11 of the third period. That was his second goal of the game and 11th of the season. . . . Red Deer got a big goal from F Landon Ferraro, who got his third of the season at 19:37 of the second. . . . F Lane Scheibl, acquired earlier in the day from the Vancouver Giants, was in Red Deer’s lineup. He was pointless and minus-1. . . . The Chiefs are 13-8-1-0. . . . Attendance was 4,904.
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In Prince George, G Adam Brown stopped 25 shots as the Kelowna Rockets blanked the Cougars, 2-0. . . . Brown has three shutouts this season and five in his career. . . . The Rockets (12-13-1-0) were 2-for-5 on the PP, getting goals from F Kyle St. Denis, his 13th, at 10:06 of the first period, and F Cody Chikie, his ninth, at 1:45 of the third. . . . The Cougars (4-18-1-1) had beaten the Rockets 3-2 on Friday. . . . Attendance was 2,201. . . . Prince George F Brett Connolly, who had been expected to return from a hip injury on Friday, sat out both weekend games with the flu.
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In Vancouver, F Brendan Gallagher and F Craig Cunningham each had four points to help the Giants to a 7-3 victory over the Portland Winterhawks. . . . The Giants broke open a tight game with three goals in the last 5:07 of the third period. . . . Gallagher finished with two goals, giving him 15, and two assists, while Cunningham had a goal, his 13th, and three helpers. . . . F Lance Bouma added a goal and two assists for Vancouver (16-8-1-2), which closed to within one point of the Western Conference-leading Tri-City Americans. . . . The Giants were 3-for-3 on the PP; Portland (16-10-0-0) was 0-for-4. . . . Vancouver G Mark Segal, added earlier in the week from the BCHL’s Nanaimo Clippers, turned aside 27 shots. . . . Portland G Mac Carruth, a recent addition from the NAHL’s Wenatchee Wild, stopped 18 shots in his first WHL start. . . . F Connor Redmond, acquired earlier in the day from the Red Deer Rebels, was in Vancouver’s lineup. He was pointless and minus-1, as was F Lane Scheibl who went the other way in the deal. . . . Attendance was 8,924.
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In Kent, Wash., F Shane Harper scored two goals, set up another and was plus-4 as the Everett Silvertips got past the Seattle Thunderbirds, 4-1. . . . Seattle F Prab Rai opened the scoring with his 13th of the season, a PP score at 19:52 of the first period. . . . Harper scored two second-period goals, giving him 14, and F Tyler Maxwell added his 15th as Everett (14-7-1-0) took a 3-1 lead. . . . The Thunderbirds are 9-14-1-3. . . . Maxwell also had two assists, while F Chris Langkow had a goal and two assists and also was plus-4. . . . Attendance was 4,079.
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In Kennewick, Wash., the Regina Pats scored three times in the first period and added four more in the second en route to a 7-1 thrashing of the Tri-City Americans. . . . It was the first home loss of the season for the Americans, who had been 9-0 in the Toyota Center. . . . The last time the Americans were beaten that badly at home was Feb. 1, 2003, when they dropped a 6-0 decision to the Kamloops Blazers. . . . Regina is 2-0 on its six-game road swing, having opened Friday with a 3-2 shootout victory over the Kootenay Ice in Cranbrook. . . . Regina (13-11-3-0) got 35 saves from G Dawson Guhle, who lost his bid for a shutout at 10:10 of the third period when F Sergei Drozd scored. . . . Tri-City starter Drew Owsley was yanked at 8:13 of the second period, having stopped 11 of 16. . . . F Jordan Weal and F Garrett Mitchell each had two goals for Regina, with D Cody Carlson picking up three assists and F Jordan Eberle scoring once and setting up three others. D Colten Teubert also had a goal and two assists. . . . Carlson was acquired from the Medicine Hat Tigers earlier in the season in hopes that he could quarterback Regina’s PP. His three assists all came on the PP, in a span of 8:44 in the second period. . . . Regina was 4-for-5 on the PP; the Americans (18-6-0-0) were 0-for-9. . . . Attendance was 5,051.
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In Chilliwack, G Justin Leclerc won another shootout as the Kamloops Blazers got past the Bruins, 4-3. . . . Leclerc stopped 40 shots through overtime and was beaten just once in six shootout attempts as he ran his shootout record to 3-0 this season. . . . The Blazers (11-13-2-1) got shootout goals from their first and last shooters, F C.J. Stretch and F Shayne Wiebe, while F Roman Horak, the Bruins’ second scorer, was the only skater to solve Leclerc. . . . Leclerc has been beaten twice in 13 shootout attempts this season. . . . The Bruins are 11-12-1-4. The loser point allowed them to move into a tie for fifth in the Western Conference with the Spokane Chiefs. Spokane, however, has played six fewer games. . . . Kamloops F Tyler Shattock had a goal and an assist. This is worth noting because he got tossed from a 3-1 loss to the host Seattle Thunderbirds of Kent with a boarding major for a first-period hit on D Steve Chaffin. The Blazers were most upset with the penalty, feeling that Shattock’s check was a clean play on which an opposing player unfortunately was injured. The fact that Shattock was in the lineup would indicate the WHL office agreed. . . . Chilliwack G Mark Friesen stopped 22 shots. . . . Kamloops D Tyler Hansen gave the Blazers a 3-2 lead with his first WHL goal at 7:40 of the third period. . . . Horak tied the score at 15:29 of the third. . . . Attendance was 2,968.