Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Tuesday . . .

RW Scott Glennie of the Brandon Wheat Kings won’t be on the Canadian national junior team’s final roster when it is unveiled Wednesday morning. Glennie left in the third period of a Monday scrimmage and didn’t play Tuesday against a university team in Regina. “He’s going to be out for a little while,” Willie Desjardins, Canada’s head coach, told reporters. “He has a concussion. We took him to the hospital (Monday) night. We’re going to get to try to get him evaluated to make a decision on where he’s at.”
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As expected, the Portland Winterhawks have recalled F Taylor Peters, 17, from the BCHL’s Penticton Vees. He played in three games with Portland before being reassigned. He has six points in 17 games with the Vees.
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The NAHL will have a new team — the Fresno Monsters — in its lineup when the 2010-11 season gets here. The expansion application was approved by the NAHL board of governors this week. The Monsters will play out of the 7,600-seat Selland Arena, which has undergone more than US$8 million in renovations over the last two years. The Monsters, under GM/head coach Eric Ballard, are a first-year team in the Western State Hockey League. They are 28-2-0-1 and averaging 2,833 fans per game. . . . Rick Brodsky, the owner of the WHL’s Prince George Cougars, owns the NAHL’s Wichita Falls Wildcats.
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The Calgary Hitmen enjoyed quite a weekend. . . . They held their second annual Shake Up The ’Dome on Saturday. When it was all over, the Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank got 9,810 pounds of food, 12,000 boxes of Kraft Dinner and $1,110. . . . On Sunday, it was the 15th annual Petro-Canada Teddy Bear Toss. Fans tossed 16,755 stuffed toys all of which will go to more than 50 local charities. . . . And there will be more on Friday as the Hitmen play host to the Regina Pats. That night, the Teddy Bear toss game-worn jerseys will be sold on the concourse, with proceeds going to the Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank.
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TUESDAY:
In Red Deer, F Josh Cowen’s PP goal at 7:48 of the third period stood up as the winner as the Rebels beat the Regina Pats, 3-2. . . . Cowen, who has 10 goals, gave the Rebels a 3-1 lead. . . . Red Deer (17-14-0-2) was 2-for-4 on the PP as it improved to 4-0-0-2 in its last six. . . .. The Pats (16-18-3-0) have lost four in a row. . . . F Ryan Nugent-Hopkins set up two Red Deer goals. . . . F Craig Orfino and F Carter Ashton scored their first goals for Regina since coming over in a trade with the Lethbridge Hurricanes last week. . . . Red Deer G Darcy Kuemper stopped 27 shots, eight more than Regina’s Damien Ketlo. . . . .Attendance was 4,018. . . . F Mason Burr, Red Deer’s second-round pick in the 2009 bantam draft, played for the Rebels. He’s a regular with the midget AAA UFA Bisons. . . . The Rebels continue to be without F Landon Ferraro (knee). They also had some players feeling the after-effects of a suspected bout of food-poisoning following a recent road trip.
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In Cranbrook, D Brayden McNabb had a goal and two assists as the host Kootenay Ice dumped the Medicine Hat Tigers, 6-4. . . . The Ice (17-15-1-2) was 4-for-6 on the PP; the Tigers (21-11-2-4) were 0-for-5. . . . The Ice went in having lost two in a row, while the Tigers had won five straight. . . . McNabb scored his ninth goal on a 5-on-3 advantage. . . . The Ice led 4-0 in the second period before the Tigers struck for three goals in 4:15. . . . Medicine Hat freshman F Emerson Etem got No. 26. . . . F Steele Boomer upped the Ice’s lead to 5-3 at 19:04 of the second. . . . Medicine Hat F Joey Frazer had two goals and an assist. . . . The Ice had a 41-24 edge in shots. . . . Attendance was 2,616.
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In Prince Albert, G Garrett Zemlak stopped 26 shots to lead the Raiders to a 3-0 victory over the Kelowna Rockets. . . . It was the fourth shutout of the season for Zemlak and the fifth of his career. . . . D Ryan Button’s goal at 19:53 of the first period stood up as the winner. It was his first goal of the season. He had been credited one during a 5-1 victory over the visiting Moose Jaw Warriors last week, but a late scoring change gave the goal to F Brandon Herrod. . . . The Raiders (19-15-1-2) had lost three of five. . . . The Rockets (18-17-2-0) wrap up their East Division swing in Saskatoon on Wednesday. They are 3-2-0-0 on the trip. . . . F Craig McCallum drew two assists for the Raiders. He has 18 points, including 15 helpers, in his last nine games. . . . Herrod scored his 22nd goal, shorthanded, and added an assist. . . . Kelowna G Adam Brown stopped 39 shots. . . . Attendance was 1,792.
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In Kent, Wash., G James Reid stopped 37 shots to lead the Spokane Chiefs to a 3-1 victory over the host Seattle Thunderbirds. . . . The Chiefs built up a 3-0 lead on goals by Levko Koper, Brady Brassart and Kyle Beach, with his 24th, before Luke Lockhart scored for Seattle at 10:02 of the third period. . . . Beach also had an assist, while C Mitch Wahl had two. . . . Seattle G Calvin Pickard stopped 35 shots. . . . The Chiefs (21-9-2-0) are 5-1-1-0 in their last eight games. . . . The Thunderbirds are 12-19-1-3. . . Attendance was 4,108.

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