Saturday . . .

You may have heard that the Medicine Hat Tigers and the Hurricanes danced in Lethbridge on Friday night. If you haven’t seen it, the video -- including the battling goaltenders -- is right here. . . . Cha-ching! . . . There weren’t believed to have been any fans leave the building, either.
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Cha-ching! The tab for the Medicine Hat at Lethbridge fandango ran to $1,250. The Hurricanes got dinged $500 because this was their second line brawl and $250 because the goaltenders fought. The Tigers were fined $250 for their first line brawl and $250 for the battling goaltenders.
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THE PLAYOFF CHASE
Teams in the running for playoff spots, showing games remaining (d — division leaders seeded 1-2; z — clinched conference championship; y — clinched division championship; x — clinched playoff spot):
EASTERN CONFERENCE
(top eight advance)
yz-Calgary (1) 51-17-1-2-105
y-Brandon (0) 50-18-1-3-104
x-Saskatoon (0) 46-19-3-4-99
x-Kootenay (0) 43-24-3-2-91
x-Medicine Hat (0) 41-23-3-5-90
x-Red Deer (1) 39-27-0-5-83
x-Swift Current (1) 36-30-1-4-77
x-Moose Jaw (1) 33-27-4-7-77
Saturday: Saskatoon 3 at Prince Albert 8; Regina 1 at Brandon 3; Moose Jaw 3 at Swift Current 4 (SO); Edmonton 1 at Kootenay 2; Lethbridge 1 at Medicine Hat 4.
Sunday: Red Deer at Calgary; Swift Current at Moose Jaw.
PLAYOFFS: Calgary will play either Swift Current or Moose Jaw; Brandon will play either Swift Current or Moose Jaw; Kootenay and Medicine Hat open Friday in Cranbrook; Saskatoon and Red Deer open Friday in Saskatoon.
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WESTERN CONFERENCE
(top eight advance)
x-Tri-City (0) 47-22-1-2-97
y-Vancouver (1) 41-23-2-3-87
x-Everett (1) 46-20-3-2-97
x-Spokane (1) 44-22-3-2-93
x-Portland (0) 44-25-2-1-91
x-Kelowna (0) 35-31-2-4-76
x-Kamloops (0) 32-33-2-5-71
x-Chilliwack (0) 32-33-2-5-71
Saturday: Prince George 5 at Kelowna 6 (SO); Kamloops 5 at Vancouver 6 (SO); Chilliwack 0 at Everett 5; Portland 3 at Seattle 1; Spokane 5 at Tri-City 4.
Sunday: Vancouver at Seattle; Everett at Spokane.
PLAYOFFS: Tri-City or Everett will play Chilliwack. . . . Vancouver will play Kamloops, opening Friday and Saturday in Vancouver. Kamloops finishes seventh by winning the tiebreaker over Chilliwack. . . . Spokane and Portland will meet in a first round series. Spokane holds home-ice advantage but, with its building booked by NCAA basketball, the series will open in Portland with games Saturday and Sunday. . . . Kelowna finishes sixth and will play either Tri-City or Everett.
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SATURDAY:
In Kennewick, Wash., the Spokane Chiefs scored two third-period goals on a five-minute PP and beat the host Tri-City Americans, 5-4. . . . The loss prevented the Americans from clinching first place in the Western Conference and the U.S. Division. The Chiefs meet Everett on Sunday with the Silvertips needing one point to clinch first place. . . . The victory means Spokane finishes fourth and has home-ice advantage in a first-round series with the Portland Winterhawks. . . . The Chiefs turned a 3-2 lead into a 5-2 lead by scoring twice after Tri-City D Tyler Schmidt was hit with a major penalty for clipping at 7:17. . . . Spokane F Anthony Bardaro, with his fifth goal at 8:52, and F Kenton Miller, with his 12th at 10:38, had the late PP goals. . . . The Americans then got two PP goals, from F Neal Prokop and F Adam Hughesman, at 17:43 and 17:56, to get to within one. . . . Spokane F Mitch Wahl got his 30th goal. . . . Spokane G James Reid stopped 37 shots, while Tri-City’s Alex Pechurskiy turned aside 30. . . . The Chiefs, who lost 4-3 at home to the Americans on Friday, won the season series, 8-4-0-0. . . .Attendance was 6,053. . . . Schmidt’s penalty came against Spokane F Kyle Beach, who suffered an injury to his right leg and was on crutches following the game. Beach leads the WHL with 52 goals.
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In Vancouver, Kamloops Blazers G Kurtis Mucha stopped 50 shots but came up empty in a shootout as the Giants posted a 6-5 victory. . . . F James Henry, F Craig Cunningham and D Kevin Connauton all scored in the shootout to give Vancouver the victory. . . . The loser point lifted the Blazers into seventh place in the Western Conference and means they will meet the Giants in the first round. That series opens with games Friday and Saturday in Vancouver. . . . The Giants dominated the season series, going 6-1-0-1. Or did they? The Blazers were 2-2-1-3. . . . The Giants had lost five of their previous six games. . . . Vancouver F James Wright had a goal and two assists, while F C.J. Stretch did the same for Kamloops. . . . Kamloops D Linden Saip, who began his career with Vancouver, forced OT with his 12th goal at 16:38 of the third period. . . . Vancouver was 2-for-5 on the PP; the Blazers were 2-for-6. . . . Vancouver G Mark Segal stopped 17 shots. . . . Attendance was 14,468.
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In Brandon, F Jordan Eberle scored his 50th goal of the season but it didn’t help the Regina Pats a whole lot as they dropped a 3-1 decision to the Wheat Kings. . . . The victory was Brandon’s 50th of the season, the fourth time in its 43 years of existence that the franchise has reached that plateau. . . . D Travis Hamonic scored his first goal for Brandon since being acquired from the Moose Jaw Warriors on Jan. 10. . . . Brandon F Matt Calvert picked up one assist, to finish with 99 points, while linemate Brayden Schenn went pointless and also was left at 99 points. . . . Brandon G Andrew Hayes stopped 34 shots. . . . Regina G Dawson Guhle made 37 saves. . . . Attendance was 6,042, setting a single-game attendance record for the Wheat Kings. The previous record (6,022) was set Wednesday when the Wheat Kings beat the Warriors, 8-2. . . . Eberle leads the WHL with 106 points, three more than Calgary Hitmen F Brandon Kozun who is at home to the Red Deer Rebels on Sunday.
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In Everett, G Thomas Heemskerk stopped 25 shots to lead the Silvertips to a 5-0 victory over the Chilliwack Bruins. . . . Heemskerk has four shutouts this season and seven in his career. . . . The victory provides Everett with a chance to win the Western Conference pennant. The Silvertips play in Spokane on Sunday and need one point to finish ahead of the Tri-City Americans. Everett and Tri-City, which is finished, are tied, but the Americans hold the tiebreaker. . . . Everett got two goals from F Shane Harper, giving him 42 this season and 100 for his career, while F Chris Langkow had a goal, his 21st, and three assists. . . . Chilliwack G Braden Gamble stopped 34 shots. . . . The Bruins will finish eighth in the conference and are in the playoffs for the third time in their four-season existence. In their two previous appearances, they lost to the Vancouver Giants in the first round. This time, Chilliwack will play either Everett or Tri-City, which finishes first. . . . Attendance was 8,426.
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In Kelowna, F Brandon McMillan scored four times but the Rockets needed a shootout to beat the Prince George Cougars, 6-5. . . . Kelowna F Brett Bulmer got the shootout winner. . . . The Rockets, who have won five of six, held a 36-17 edge in shots through the third period but were outshot 6-1 in overtime. . . . McMillan finished the season with 25 goals. His fourth goal, at 16:19 of the third period on the PP, forced OT. . . . F Mitchell Callahan got his 20th for Kelowna. . . . D Daniel Medland-Marchen, who is from Kelowna, scored his first WHL goal for the Cougars. . . . F Brett Connolly had a goal for Prince George. He finished with 10 goals in 16 games as he missed most of the season with a hip problem. He still is expected to be an early first-round selection in the NHL’s 2010 draft. . . . Bulmer and D Tyson Barrie scored for Kelowna in the shootout, while F Alex Rodgers did the same for the Cougars. . . . Attendance was 6,253.
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In Cranbrook, F Kevin King broke a 1-1 tie in the second period and the Kootenay Ice hung on for a 2-1 victory over the Edmonton Oil Kings. . . . Edmonton G Laurent Brossoit, 16, turned aside 49 shots. . . . The Ice clinched fourth in the Eastern Conference so will have home-ice advantage in a first-round series with the Medicine Hat Tigers. . . . Ice D James Martin scored his eighth goal at 5:22 of the first period. . . . Edmonton tied it on F Sebastian Svendsen’s 12th goal at 7:04 of the second period. . . . King, with his 28th, got the eventual winner at 14:07. . . . King also assisted on Martin’s goal. . . . Ice captain Dustin Sylvester had two assists. . . . Ice G Todd Mathews stopped 20 shots. . . . Attendance was 2,998. . . . The loss was Edmonton’s eighth in a row.
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In Medicine Hat, the Tigers ran their winning streak to six games with a 4-1 victory over the Lethbridge Hurricanes. . . . The Tigers had won 5-4 in Lethbridge on Friday in a game that included a line brawl. . . . The Tigers got two goals from F Bretton Cameron, giving him 40. He got No. 40 into an empty net. . . . Medicine Hat F Emerson Etem, a 17-year-old freshman, got his 37th. . . . The Tigers finished fifth in the Eastern Conference and will face the Kootenay Ice in the first round. . . . Attendance was, yes, 4,006.
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In Prince Albert, the Raiders overcame a 3-1 first-period deficit to beat the Saskatoon Blades, 8-3. . . . F Igor Revenko and F Craig McCallum had two goals each for the Raiders, while D Ryan Button had three assists. . . . Revenko finished with 27 goals, while McCallum, who was playing his final WHL game, had 27. . . . Raiders F Dustin Cameron got his 30th goal. . . . Raiders G Garrett Zemlak made 26 saves. . . . Saskatoon got a PP goal from F Darren Dietz, his first WHL goal, and shorthanded scores from F Marek Viedensky, his 20th, and F Travis Toomey, his 11th. . . . Saskatoon G Adam Morrison stopped 32 shots. . . . Attendance was 3,036.
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In Kent, Wash., Portland G Mac Carruth turned aside 39 shots to help the Portland Winterhawks to a 3-1 victory over the host Seattle Thunderbirds. . . . The Winterhawks, who finished 44-25-2-1, went 12-0 against the Thunderbirds. . . . Portland went 10-0-0-0 against the Thunderbirds in 1980-81. . . . F Brad Ross, with his 27th, and F Ryan Johansen, with his 25th, staked Portland to a 2-0 lead. . . . Seattle F Brendan Rouse got his sixth on the PP at 12:56 of the third. . . . Portland F Nino Niederreiter got an empty-netter for his 36th goal of the season. . . . Thunderbirds G Calvin Pickard stopped 33 shots. . . . Attendance was 5,798.
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In Swift Current, F Stepan Novotny scored the only goal of a five-round shootout and the Broncos edged the Moose Jaw Warriors, 4-3. . . . The teams meet Sunday in Moose Jaw and they go into the game tied for seventh in the Eastern Conference. The winner will meet the Brandon Wheat Kings in the first round; the loser gets the Calgary Hitmen. . . . F Jason Bast scored twice for the Warriors, giving him 33. It was his 330th regular-season game with the Warriors, breaking the franchise record that had been held by D Chris Twerdun (1995-2000). . . . Warriors D Kevin Smith forced OT with his seventh goal at 19:08 of the third period. . . . Broncos F Michael Hay opened the scoring with his first WHL goal at 10:42 of the first period. It was his 29th game of the season and 31st of his career. . . . Attendance was 2,879.