Tuesday . . .

THE MacBETH REPORT: F Adrian Foster (Saskatoon, Brandon, 1999-2002) was released from his tryout contract by Dinamo Riga (Latvia, KHL). He had two goals and one assist in nine games for Dinamo this season. . . . F Brady Leavold (Swift Current, Kelowna, 2003-08) has signed a contract for the rest of this season with the Tilburg Trappers (Netherlands). He had nine goals and four assists in 31 games with Victoria (ECHL) and no points in four games with Norfolk (AHL) last season.
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The Brandon Sun is reporting that Jim Wilton, a former defenceman with the Wheat Kings, has been killed in a plane crash after taking off from Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport in Michigan. . . . Wilton, 60, was killed Oct. 27. . . . According to The Sun, Wilton died after “his single-engine plane suffered mechanical failure, crashing and catching on fire immediately after taking off. . . . Wilton had just had mechanical repairs done in Kalamazoo.” . . . Wilton was the son of former long-time Brandon mayor Bill Wilton. . . . Jim played for the Wheat Kings in its first season (1967-68) in the WCHL. . . . “It’s very sad because he was an indestructible, larger-than-life, life-of-the-party kind of guy,” Bruce Bonk, who grew up playing hockey with Wilton, told The Sun’s Rob Henderson. “He was a leader in the dressing room in every sense of the word and a great natural athlete.” . . . Wilton also played football at Brandon University. . . . The Sun reported that “at the time of his death, Wilton was operating a resort at Lake Muskoka in Ontario.”
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TUESDAY:
In Kamloops, D Drydn Dow scored his first two WHL goals to help the Tri-City Americans to an 8-3 victory over the Blazers. . . . The Americans (14-3-0-0), with the WHL’s best winning percentage (.824), have won three in a row, all on the road. They went 4-1 on this five-game swing. . . . The Blazers have lost seven straight. . . . Dow, a list player from Calgary, also had an assist. . . . Attendance was 3,897. . . . Tri-City was 4-for-9 on the PP and also scored a shorthanded goal. . . . The Americans are home to the Vancouver Giants on Friday, then go into the Central Division for three games. Tri-City then returns home for a six-game homestand.
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In Saskatoon, F Walker Wintoneak broke a 1-1 tie at 10:37 of the third period to give the Blades a 2-1 victory over the Moose Jaw Warriors. . . . The Warriors scored first, when F Brendan Rowinski netted his 11th goal of the season at 12:29 of the first period. . . . Saskatoon F Burke Gallimore tied it on a penalty shot at 12:29 of the second. . . . Saskatoon G Adam Morrison stopped 33 shots, six more than Moose Jaw’s Jeff Bosch. . . . Attendance was 4,954. . . . Saskatoon (14-3-0-2), which has won six straight, now holds a four-point lead over the idle Calgary Hitmen (13-5-0-0) atop the Eastern Conference. . . . The Warriors (11-7-0-0) slipped eight points back of the Blades, who won 4-3 in Moose Jaw on Saturday. . . . Moose Jaw was without D Ryan Stanton (groin), while F Dylan Hood and F Joey Kornelsen sat out with the flu. Warriors head coach Dave Hunchak told the Moose Jaw Times-Herald that eight to 10 players are fighting the flu.
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In Medicine Hat, F Byron Froese scored at 2:20 of the third period to break a 1-1 tie and send the Everett Silvertips on their way to a 3-1 victory over the Tigers. . . . F Scott MacDonald, who joined the Silvertips this week from the BCHL’s Westside Warriors, had a goal and an assist. . . . Everett (10-4-0-0) has won four straight games. . . . The Tigers are 9-7-2-2. . . . The Silvertips are 4-0 on their longest road trip — seven games — of the season.