Tuesday . . .

With the Chilliwack Bruins having dealt G Mark Friesen, 19, to the Swift Current Broncos on Tuesday, it will be interesting to see how the dominoes fall, or if they fall at all.
Friesen was traded for a third-round selection in the 2010 bantam draft.
That move leaves the Bruins with Lucas Gore, 19, as their starting goaltender, and they have brought in Braden Gamble, 18, from the AJHL’s Drumheller Dragons.
The Broncos, meanwhile, have two other goaltenders on their roster — veteran Morgan Clark, 19, and sophomore Alexandre Sirard, 18.
You would doubt that the Broncos are going to keep two 19-year-old goaltenders, which is the situation the Bruins were in prior to this trade. Clark stopped 26 shots in beating the Warriors 6-4 in Moose Jaw on Tuesday night.
There are other teams out there who are goaltending shopping and would love nothing better than to find one with some experience under their Christmas tree.
This was the third trade this season between Mark Lamb, the GM/head coach of the Broncos, and his Chilliwack counterpart, Marc Habscheid.
Meanwhile, fans of the Vancouver Giants and Kamloops Blazers are asking themselves: Are Lamb and Habscheid brothers?
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F Gasper Kopitar of the Portland Winterhawks will play for his native Slovenia in the IIHF World Under-20 Division I championship in Megève & Saint-Gervais, France, Dec. 14-20. Slovenia is in Group A, along with Germany, Denmark, France, Ukraine and Japan. Group B features Kazakhstan, Belarus, Norway, Italy, Poland and Croatia. The winner of the tournament will be promoted to the top division of the World Under-20 championship for 2011. . . . Kopitar leaves Portland on Wednedsay and will return following the Christmas break. . . . F Sergei Drozd of the Tri-City Americans will play for Belarus in the same tournament.
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The junior A rights to G Justin Leclerc, 20, who is a free agent after clearing WHL waivers, were dealt Tuesday. They went from the Melville Millionaires to the La Ronge Ice Wolves for the SJHL list rights to F Taylor Fauchaus, 17, of Prince Albert.
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There is a big game scheduled for Brandon on Wednesday night with the Blades there to meet the Wheat Kings. . . . Saskatoon D Jyri Niemi (shoulder) is listed as day-to-day. . . . Brandon expects to have sophomore D Mark Stone in the lineup for the first time since he suffered a broken thumb on Sept. 25. He has missed 27 games. . . . The Wheat Kings, the host team for the Memorial Cup, go into the game with a 17-11-0-2 record. They are seven points behind the Blades (20-4-0-3), who sit atop the WHL’s overall standings. The Blades hold three games in hand. . . . Brandon will be without D Dallas Ehrhardt, who will be out up to eight weeks with a knee injury suffered Saturday in a 4-3 loss in Swift Current.
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The Central league’s Laredo Bucks have signed F Curtis Billsten (Red Deer, Everett, Lethbridge, Kootenay, 2002-06). Last season, his first as a pro, Billsten earned 39 points in 62 ECHL games — two with the Idaho Steelheads and 60 with the Victoria Salmon Kings.
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F Cole Penner, the fourth overall pick in the WHL’s 2006 bantam draft, has had his junior A rights traded one more time. This time those rights have gone from the BCHL’s Merritt Centennials to the AJHL’s Camrose Kodiaks, in exchange for future considerations. . . . After Merritt acquired Penner’s rights from the AJHL’s Grande Prairie Storm for D Matt Cumming in September, he never did play for the Cents. He apparently showed up in Merritt, decided it wasn’t for him, and went home. . . . The Prince Albert Raiders drafted Penner but traded his rights to the Chilliwack Bruins last month for a 12th-round pick in t he 2010 bantam draft.
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It would seem that the WHL is about to find lots more competition when it comes to recruiting American-born players. That story is right here.
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The BCHL’s Burnaby Express has hopes of returning to Coquitlam. That story is right here.
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TUESDAY:
In Chilliwack, F Matt Fraser had two goals and two assists and F Elgin Pearce scored his first two WHL goals as the Kootenay Ice dropped the Bruins, 7-2. . . . The Ice (14-13-1-1) is 3-0-0-0 in its swing through the B.C. Division. It plays the Giants in Vancouver on Wednesday. . . . F Matt Fraser also scored twice for the Bruins, giving him 12. . . . The Bruins (12-14-1-4) put the game’s first two goals into their own net, with D Tyler Stahl batting a high puck past G Lucas Gore for the first one and the second one going off D Zach Habscheid. . . . Habscheid was playing for the first time since Oct. 24 when he suffered a thumb injury. . . . Kootenay D Hayden Rintoul went down in a first-period collision with teammate Kevin King. Rintoul needed some attention, but later returned. Ironically, Ice D Ryan Molle left a Friday game in Kamloops after being felled by Rintoul. Molle sat out a Saturday game in Kelowna but returned in Chilliwack and was plus-3 with an assist. . . . Attendance was 2,811. . . . The Bruins have added F Brett Miller, the 14th overall selection in the 2006 bantam draft. Miller was drafted by the Regina Pats, and also has had stints with the Everett Silvertips and Red Deer Rebels. He has managed just two points in 39 games over four seasons. Miller had 31 points in 26 games with the SJHL’s Battlefords North Stars when he joined the Bruins.
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In Moose Jaw, the Swift Current Broncos struck for five third-period goals on 11 shots as they beat the Warriors, 6-4. . . . Moose Jaw took a 2-1 lead into that third period. . . . F Dillon Wagner scored two goals — he has five — and set up another for the Broncos (15-12-2-0). . . . D Joel Rogers, with his first of the season, and F Andrew Sullivan, with his first WHL goal, also scored for the Broncos. . . . F Justin Dowling added his 19th for Swift Current, while F Stepan Novotny got his 16th. . . . Swift Current F Matt Tassone was pointless in his first game since February. His previous season was ended by shoulder problems. . . . F Brandon Rowinski scored twice for Moose Jaw (16-11-1-1), giving him 19. . . . D Travis Hamonic set up three goals for Moose Jaw, which played without four forwards — Jason Bast (facial injuries), Joey Kornelsen (groin), Nathan MacMaster (concussion) and Jesse Paradis (ill) — and had defencemen Clinton Atkinson and Kevin Smith on a forward line. . . . Attendance was 1,965. . . . The Warriors are in Swift Current on Friday.
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In Medicine Hat, the Lethbridge Hurricanes ended a six-game losing streak by beating the Tigers, 3-1. . . . The Tigers had gone seven games without a regulation loss. . . . The Hurricanes (9-15-3-1) scored two first-period goals and took if from there. . . . G Brandon Anderson stopped 28 shots for Lethbridge, losing his shutout bid on F Matt MacKay’s PP goal at 9:44 of the second period. . . . Medicine Hat G Tyler Bunz stopped 16 shots. . . . The Tigers are 16-10-2-3. . . . Attendance was 4,006.