Some notes . . .

THE MacBETH REPORT: F Chad Bassen (Regina, Vancouver, Medicine Hat, Everett, 2000-04) has signed a contract (one year plus option) starting next season with the Hamburg Freezers (Germany DEL). He has 11 goals and 16 assists in 48 games this season with Straubing Tigers (Germany DEL) . . .
D Stefan Ulmer, who joined the Spokane Chiefs for the 2007-08 season and is playing with them now, has signed a three-year contract with Lugano (Swiss NL A) starting next season. Ulmer has five goals and 26 assists in 55 games with Spokane this season.
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The Portland Winterhawks are starting up their own Hall of Fame. The inaugural class will be inducted March 6 at the Rose Garden. That inaugural class features the late Brian Shaw, a long-time WHLer who moved the franchise from Edmonton to Portland; Ken Hodge, the winningest head coach in WHL history; Innes Mackie, who spent more than 30 years as the team’s trainer; and, Dennis Holland, the franchise’s career leader in goals scored. . . . It is only fitting that Shaw, Hodge and Mackie go in together as they are the men who pushed to move the franchise to Portland for the 1976-77 season.
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Congratulations to former Lethbridge Hurricanes general manager Bob Bartlett. He will be inducted as a builder into the Alberta Hockey Hall of Fame on June 12 in Red Deer. Bartlett, who once scouted for the Lethbridge Broncos, now is a director for the Hockey Alberta foundation.
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CORRECTION: Troy Bourke, who played for the Prince George Cougars the other night, spent this season with the midget AAA St. Albert Raiders, not the South Side Athletic Club, as I mentioned here late last week. . . . Thanks to Larry for pointing that out.
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The WHL is looking into the hit by F Todd Kennedy of the Tri-City Americans on D Eric Doyle of the Portland Winterhawks in a Tuesday night game. Kennedy was given a charging major and game misconduct for what perhaps was the worst headshot of this season in the WHL. Kennedy has been suspended by the WHL while the incident is under investigation.