Sunday . . .

THE MacBETH REPORT: D Angel Krstev (Lethbridge, 1999-2000) has signed a contract for the rest of the season with Färjestad Karlstad (Sweden Elitserien). He started the season with Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod (Russia KHL), getting one goal and six assists in 21 games for Torpedo, before moving to Brno (Czech Republic Extraliga), where he had four assists in eight games.
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Two former WHL goaltenders met head-on in the MJHL on Saturday night. Justin Leclerc (Lethbridge, Kamloops, 2005-09) stopped 24 shots to help the host Winnipeg Saints beat Joe Caligiuri (Brandon, Prince George, 2006-09) and the Dauphin Kings, 4-0. Caligiuri turned aside 28 shots. Dauphin, the host team for the 2010 Royal Bank Cup, went into Sunday at 42-9-1-0, easily the best record in the Sher-Wood Division. . . . The Saints, at 30-16-3-4, were two points clear of the Selkirk Steelers in the Addison Division.
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Warren Henderson of the Kelowna Capital News takes a look at the number of defencemen who have gone on from the Rockets to play in the NHL. That story is right there.
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SUNDAY:
In Calgary, G Martin Jones stopped 35 shots to spark the Hitmen to a 3-0 victory over the Tri-City Americans. . . . It was the fourth shutout this season for Jones, who has 12 in his career. . . . F Ian Schultz, with his 18th, and F Joel Broda, with his 27th, had PP goals for Calgary, which was 2-for-2 with the man advantage. The Calgary PP is No. 2 in the league, behind only the Tri-City unit, which went 0-for-5. . . . F Jimmy Bubnick added his 20th into an empty net. . . . F Tyler Shattock had two assists. . . . Tri-City G Alexander Pechurskiy, who had blanked the Oil Kings 7-0 in Edmonton on Friday, stopped 29 shots. . . . The Hitmen are 33-16-1-1 and have won four of five. . . . The Americans, who are first overall, are 37-13-0-2. They went 2-3-0-1 on the Central Division swing but have lost three of four. . . . Attendance was 11,472.
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In Edmonton, D Adrian Van de Mosselaer’s third goal of the season, at 3:07 of OT, gave the Oil Kings a 5-4 victory over the Prince Albert Raiders. . . . The Oil Kings (11-32-4-7) ended a 16-game losing streak. They had been shut out in each of their last two games. . . . The Raiders are 27-23-2-2. . . . Van de Mosselaer went off for high-sticking 56 seconds into OT. . . . The Oil Kings built a 3-1 lead late in the second period, thanks to a pair of goals from F Michael St. Croix. He has 10 this season. . . . Edmonton later stretched that lead to 4-2, only to have the Raiders force OT on goals by F Justin Maylan, his 11th, and F Brandon Herrod, his 32nd. Herrod’s goal came at 18:37 of the third period. . . . Maylan finished with two goals and an assist, as did St. Crois. . . . Edmonton G Cam Lanigan stopped 46 shots, while Prince Albert’s Garrett Zemlak, in his first start since returning from a concussion, turned aside 17 shots. . . . Attendance was 6,063.
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In Kent, Wash., D Dallas Jackson’s shorthanded goal with 54 seconds left in OT gave the Kelowna Rockets a 2-1 victory over the host Seattle Thunderbirds. . . . Seattle G Calvin Pickard stopped 36 shots through the third period. He was beaten on Kelowna’s only shot of OT. . . . F Shane McColgan scored his 21st goal of the season for Kelowna at 4:04 of the first period. . . . Seattle F Luke Lockhart tied it with his fourth at 13:34 of the first. . . . Jackson, a trade-deadline acquisition from the Prince George Cougars, scored his 14th of the season. . . . Each team was 0-for-6 on the PP. . . . Kelowna G Mark Guggenberger stopped 26 shots, including four in OT. . . . Attendance was 4,528. . . . The Rockets (25-25-2-2) moved into a tie with the idle Kamloops Blazers for sixth in the Western Conference. Kelowna has won six in a row. . . . The Thunderbirds (14-29-5-4) have lost nine straight.
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In Langley, B.C., the Portland Winterhawks overcame an early 2-0 first-period deficit with four straight goals and went on to beat the host Vancouver Giants, 4-3. . . . F Craig Cunningham, with his 31st, and F Milan Kytnar, with his fifth, on the PP, gave Vancouver a 2-0 edge before the game was six minutes old. . . . F Spencer Bennett’s 15th goal, at 6:49 of the third period, on the PP, tied it. . . . Portland took the lead on goals 48 seconds apart by F Ryan Johansen, his 19th, and F Ty Rattie, his 13th. . . . F Brendan Gallagher got his 31st for Vancouver at 8:39 of the third but the Giants weren’t able to equalize. . . . Portland was 1-for-8 on the PP; Vancouver was 1-for-5. . . . The Winterhawks (32-20-1-1) won a total of 30 games over the previous two seasons. . . . Vancouver (31-20-1-2) had won its two previous games. . . . Attendance was 4,382. . . . Portland F Chris Francis had two assists, giving him eight points on in the three-game weekend — the Winterhawks went 2-1-0-0. Francis put up 22 points in 13 January games. He also has 66 points, one shy of last seaosn’s career high. . . Portland F Luke Walker had one assist to run his point streak to 11 games. He earned 17 points in 11 January games.