Wednesday . . .

T.J. Mulock, who played in the WHL with the Vancouver Giants, Regina Pats and Kamloops Blazers, is going to play in the 2010 Olympic Winter Games . . . for Germany. That story is right here.
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The Prince George Cougars have signed F Carter Rigby, who was an eighth-round selection in the 2009 bantam draft. Rigby has 87 points, including 54 goals, in 48 games with the midget AAA Penticton Vees. He also has 121 penalty minutes. He will make his WHL debut on Friday when the Cougars meet the Rockets in Kelowna.
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Columnist Iain MacIntyre of the Vancouver Sun takes a look at defencemen Nolan Baumgartner and Brad Lukowich. They played together with the Kamloops Blazers and are together again with the Vancouver Canucks. . . . By the way, MacIntyre has a history in Kamloops, too. He worked at The Daily News. . . . His column is right here.
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And now for something completely different. Kirk Penton of the Winnipeg has the story of the Clear Lake Jets, a team that features the likes of Dale Hawerchuk and Cliff Ronning and Doug Smail. The Jets have pulled out of the Manitoba senior A playdowns after things got a bit rough. That story is right here.
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Former NHLPA executive director Paul Kelly now heads up College Hockey Inc., and he continues to throw mud at major junior hockey. His latest rant is right here and if you read closely he also seems to be slagging Canadian colleges and universities.
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WEDNESDAY:
In Saskatoon, F Marek Viedensky, a trade-deadline acquisition, scored 29 seconds into overtime to give the Blades a 4-3 victory over the Moose Jaw Warriors. . . . Viedensky, who was acquired from the Prince George Cougars, won it with his seventh goal of the season, an unassisted effort. . . . The Blades led this one 3-0 at 6:27 of the first period, only to have the Warriors come back and tie it. . . . The visitors forced OT on D Ryan Stanton’s seventh goal at 14:51 of the third period. . . . The Blades (33-11-2-3) had lost three in a row. They now are 17-5-2-0 at home, but they had lost their previous three home games. . . . The Warriors (25-17-4-3) have lost four in a row. . . . The Blades are 4-0 against the Warriors this season. . . . Saskatoon was 0-for-2 on the PP and now is in a 0-for-45 drought. The Blades last scored a PP goal on Jan. 3 during a 6-4 victory over the host Tri-City Americans. . . Saskatoon G Adam Morrison stopped 26 shots. . . . Moose Jaw starter Jeff Bosch was beaten three times on five shots. Reliever Brandon Glover stopped 34 of 35 shots. . . . Attendance was 3,560.
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In Chilliwack, the Spokane Chiefs scored the game’s first four goals as they beat the Bruins, 4-1. . . . The visitors got first-period PP goals from F Tyler Johnson, his 21st, and D Jared Cowen, his sixth. . . . Spokane F Kyle Beach scored his 30th goal, which is a career-high. He had 29 as a freshman with the Everett Silvertips in 2006-07. . . . The Chiefs (28-18-3-1) had lost their last two games, including an 8-1 beating by the Blazers in Kamloops on Tuesday. . . . The Bruins (23-24-1-5) had won three of four. . . . Spokane G James Reid lost his shutout when F Alexander Wiklund scored 33 seconds into the third period. Reid, who is 5-0 against the Bruins in his career, stopped 22 shots. . . . Spokane was 2-for-8 on the PP; the Bruins were 0-for-5. . . . Attendance was 3,336.
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In Kelowna, the Rockets scored four third-period PP goals and beat the Seattle Thunderbirds of Kent, 4-2. . . . The Thunderbirds took a 2-0 lead into the third period on goals by F Burke Gallimore, his 15th, and F Prab Rai, his 27th. . . . But the Rockets scored four PP goals in less than 10 minutes. Two of them came from F Mitchell (Dirty Harry) Callahan, who has 16 goals this season. . . . He tied the score at 4:21 and D Tyson Barrie got the eventual winner, his 10th goal this season, at 11:43. . . . Barrie also had two assists, while F Geordie Wudrick, in his second game back from a shoulder injury, had a goal and three helpers. . . . The Rockets were 4-for-7 on the PP; the Thunderbirds were 1-for-4. . . . Kelowna (22-25-2-2) now has won three straight. . . . The Thunderbirds (14-27-4-4) have lost six in a row. . . . The Rockets hold down the Western Conference’s last playoff spot and now are 12 points ahead of the Thunderbirds. . . . Attendance was 6,075.
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In Lethbridge, the Brandon Wheat Kings scored the game’s first two goals and went on to a 4-1 victory over the Hurricanes. . . . F Scott Glennie, with his 20th, and D Brodie Melnychuk, with Glennie getting an assist, gave Brandon a 2-0 lead with goals less than four minutes apart late in the first period. . . . Lethbridge F Austin Fyten got that one back at 17:18 of the first, but Brandon added two second-period goals to put it away. . . . F Jay Fehr had three assists for Brandon. . . . The Wheat Kings (34-16-0-3) have won four in a row. . . . The Hurricanes (16-28-3-2) have dropped five of six. . . . Brandon G Jacob De Serres stopped 26 shots. . . . Lethbridge opened with Brandon Anderson, who stopped 15 shots through two periods. Linden Rowat played the third, making eight saves. . . . Lethbridge was 0-for-7 on the PP; Brandon was 0-for-3. . . . The Wheat Kings lost two defencemen during the game as Alexander Urbom (hip flexor) left in the first period and Mark Schneider (knee) didn’t play in the third. . . . Brandon F Shayne Wiebe was back in the lineup after serving a three-game WHL suspension. . . . Attendance was 3,719.
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In Prince George, the Medicine Hat Tigers jumped out to a 4-0 lead and hung on to beat the Cougars, 5-4. . . . F Matt MacKay’s 19th goal, at 4:29 of the third period, gave the Tigers a 5-3 lead. . . . F Bretton Cameron got his 30th goal for the Tigers at 19:52 of the first period. That gave the visitors a 4-0 lead. . . . Attendance was 1,690. . . . Cougars F Nick Buonassisi had a goal and two assists. . . . Medicine Hat G Devan Dubyk stopped 36 shots, while Prince George’s Hudson Stremmel turned aside 34. . . . The Tigers (31-15-3-5), who beat the Cougars 9-3 on Tuesday, have won five in a row. . . . The Cougars (9-39-1-1) have lost 11 in a row.
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In Red Deer, F Landon Ferraro scored in the shootout to give the Rebels a 4-3 victory over the Tri-City Americans. . . . With Red Deer shooting first, Ferraro was the first shooter. And he was the only one of the six skaters to score in the shootout. . . . The Americans scored the game’s first three goals, only to have the Rebels get the next three. Red Deer F Willie Coetzee tied it with his 21st goal on the PP at 17:156 of the third period. . . . Ferraro had two assists in regulation time, while Kudrna also had an assist. . . . F Justin Feser, who scored the game’s first two goals, and F Brendan Shinnimin both scored their 25th goals of the season for the Americans. . . . If was an exciting night for Feser, who is from Red Deer. . . . F Andrej Kudrna got Nos. 22 and 23 for the Rebels (26-19-0-4). . . . The Americans are 36-12-0-2 and atop the overall standings. . . . The game began 25 minutes later after a pane of glass was broken during the warmup. . . . Attendance was 4,237.