Monday . . .

F David Robinson, 19, has left the Chilliwack Bruins. Robinson, in his third season with the Bruins, said in a press release that he has lost his passion for the game. He is the Bruins’ all-time leader in penalty minutes (265) and ranks second in games played (169). Only F Matt Meropoulis played more games (179) in a Bruins uniform than did Robinson. Robinson played in Sunday’s 4-0 victory over the visiting Vancouver Giants and informed the team on Monday that he was done.
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D Alex Pym, 18, has left the Regina Pats, taking what the team is calling an “indefinite leave of absence” to consider the future of his hockey career. Pym, from Winnipeg, had one assist and 23 penalty minutes in 31 games with the Pats this season. “We are disappointed in Alex’s decision to leave the team at this time, especially in light of our roster situation,” Pats GM Brent Parker said in a statement. “At this time, Alex has indicated that his heart is not in it enough to do things he knows are necessary to play at this level. . . . We will monitor the situation over the next little while and see if Alex has a change of heart, but I think it’s safe to say his time with the Pats is officially over.” . . . Pym was a healthy scratch twice in the Pats’ last nine games, including Sunday’s 4-1 victory over the visiting Prince Albert Raiders. . . . The Pats learned Sunday that D Brandon Davidson (knee) could miss a month. D Colten Teubert leaves the club on Saturday for the Canadian national junior team’s selection camp. As well, D Myles Bell and D Tyler Borstmayer are preparing to leave for the U-17 World Hockey Challenge in Timmins, Ont.
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F Igor Revenko has left the Prince Albert Raiders. Don’t get too excited, though. He will be back. He left Monday to join Belarus’s national junior team at the IIHF Division I B Pool championship that runs in Gdansk, Poland, from Dec. 14-20. Revenko had 39 points in 33 game with the Raiders.
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The Lethbridge Hurricanes have acquired D Cason Machacek, 18, from the Kootenay Ice for a 2011 fourth-round bantam draft pick. Machacek, a second-year WHLer, has 15 points and 125 penalty minutes in 88 regular-season games. Machacek is from Lethbridge and is the younger brother of former Vancouver Giants F Spencer Machacek. He served Game 3 of a three-game suspension Monday night as the host Hurricanes lost 4-3 to the Medicine Hat Tigers. He is eligible to play Saturday against the visiting Regina Pats. . . . The Ice was able to move a defenceman after adding D Jagger Dirk, 16, to its roster last week. He had been with the BCHL’s Salmon Arm Silverbacks.
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Go right here to find out who will represent Canada at this year‚s Spengler Cup tournament. The Canadian team, including a number of WHL grads, will be coached by Craig MacTavish.
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Dan Mulhausen of the Tri-City Americans informs me that the team’s 2009-10 Media Guide is available through the team’s store on the Toyota Center concourse or through the team’s website at its online store. If you are a fan of the Americans, this is a must-have item. And if you’re a WHL fan, well, you should consider it, too. There aren’t a lot of teams that put out guides any more and this is a great one.
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G John Keeney, a 16-year-old from Twin Peaks, Calif., who is on the Kamloops Blazers’ list, has joined the USHL’s Omaha Lancers. He arrived in Omaha on Sunday night. Keeney had been 4-10, 3.33, .900 with the U-18 midget Los Angeles Selects. . . . With the Lancers, Keeney, who has twice been in the Lancers’ futures camp, will be No. 2, behind Jeff Teglia (14-3-0-1, 2.17, .919), an 18-year-old from Bloomingdale, Ill. . . . The Lancers have returned Joe Phillippi (4-1-0-1, 2.57, .882) to the NAHL’s Fairbanks Icedogs. . . . Phillippi, 19, is from Shoreview, Minn. . . . The Lancers are 18-4-0 and leading the West Division. . . . The Lancers used a sixth-round pick in the USHL’s 2009 draft to take G Mac Carruth from the NAHL’s Wenatchee Wild. Carruth left the Wild last month and now is with the Portland Winterhawks.
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Pssst! Wanna be the WHL player of the week? Well, it certainly would seem to increase the odds should you happen to journey through Kamloops. LW Johnny Lazo of the Tri-City Americans is the 12th Boston Pizza player of the week this season. He scored three goals in a 7-0 victory over the Blazers in Kamloops on Friday. He is the fourth player-of-the-week winner to have used the Blazers as something of a springboard to free pizza for life or whatever it is (Boston lasagna?) that comes with this award. . . . F Dustin Sylvester of the Kootenay Ice had two goals, two assists and a shootout goal in a 6-5 victory in Kamloops on Nov. 27. He was last week’s honouree. . . . Tri-City C Brendan Shinnimin had a goal and an assist in an 8-3 victory in Kamloops on Nov. 3 and won the award that week. . . . D Mark Isherwood of the Medicine Hat Tigers scored twice in a 12-5 victory in Kamloops on Oct. 12 and won the award for that week’s games. . . . The Vancouver Giants are the only team to stop in Kamloops this week. They’ll be at Interior Savings Centre on Saturday.
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Kevin Nastiuk (Medicine Hat, 2001-05) is the Central league’s Oakley goaltender of the week. Nastiuk, who plays for the Corpus Christi IceRays, stopped 55 of 58 shots over two games — a 6-1 victory over Arizona and a 2-1 loss to Texas. He is second in the league with a 2.37 GAA and has the best save percentage (.927). He signed with the IceRays on Nov. 16 and started eight straight games.
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Some notes from the Portland Winterhawks:
When the Winterhawks beat Seattle on Friday night, it was their 19th victory of the season, tying the number they had all of last season, and is already more than they had in 2007-08 (11) and 2006-07 (17). In addition, the team already has 125 goals in 31 games, just 51 shy of their total for 2008-09. The team is averaging 4.03 goals per game, up from last season's 2.44. And whereas Portland had just six players in double figures in goals in 2008-09, it already is up to five this season, with two more players sitting at nine goals.
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There is a bit more right here on the impending battle between the NCAA and major junior leagues over players.
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MONDAY:
In Lethbridge, F Tristan King scored Medicine Hat’s first and last goals as the Tigers beat the Hurricanes, 4-3. . . . The game had been scheduled for Saturday but was postponed because of abysmal weather and poor road conditions. It is worth noting that the call on whether to drive to Lethbridge on Saturday was made by Bob Ridley, who doubles as the Tigers’ bus driver and radio voice. Ever since the Swift Current Broncos’ bus crashed killing four players on Dec. 30, 1986, the WHL has really allowed its teams’ bus drivers to call the shots in these situations. . . . King has 11 goals this season. . . . His second goal, at 7:17 of the third period, gave the visitors a 4-2 lead. . . . Freshman F Emerson Etem got his 21st goal for the Tigers (17-10-2-4). . . . Medicine Hat was 2-for-3 on the PP, while Lethbridge was 0-for-3. . . . Etem’s goal, at 12:36 of the second, gave the Tigers a 3-0 lead. . . . Lethbridge slipped to 9-17-3-1. . . . Attendance was 2,964.