The Moose Jaw Warriors have signed the two players they selected in the first round of the 2010 bantam draft. F Carter Hansen, from Craven, Sask., was taken 10th overall, while F Torrin White, who went 21st, is from Balzac, Alta. Hansen had 53 points in 26 games with the Lumsden/Bethune bantam Lions. White had a league-high 47 goals in 26 games for the bantam Airdrie X-treme. He finished with 69 points.
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Might F David Toews, the brother of Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews, be headed to the WHL for his 20-year-old season? . . . David Toews was a healthy scratch for 10 of the University of North Dakota’s last 14 games and Brad Elliott Schlossman of the Grand Forks Herald is speculating that Toews may leave the Fighting Sioux.
“No move has been announced as of yet, but it is expected to come within a couple of weeks,” Schlossman writes.
The New York Islanders selected Toews in the third round of the 2008 NHL draft. In his first season at UND, he had 11 points in 23 games.
Last season, Toews had 10 points after nine games. He finished with 15 points in 32 games, which means he had five points in his last 23 games.
The Brandon Wheat Kings selected Toews in the sixth round of the WHL’s 2005 bantam draft. He is on Brandon’s college list.
Jonathan Toews was selected by the Tri-City Americans with the first overall selection in the 2003 bantam draft. However, he never reported, choosing instead to attend UND and play for the Fighting Sioux.
The Toews brothers are from Winnipeg.
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THE MEMORIAL CUP
(all games on Rogers Sportsnet)
(all times local)
May 14: Windsor vs. Brandon, 7 p.m.
May 15: Calgary vs. QMJHL, 2 p.m.
May 16: Brandon vs. QMJHL, 2 p.m.
May 17: Calgary vs. Windsor, 7 p.m.
May 18: QMJHL vs. Windsor, 7 p.m.
May 19: Brandon vs. Calgary, 7 p.m.
May 20: Tiebreaker (if necessary)
May 21: Semifinal, 7 p.m.
May 22: No game scheduled.
May 23: Championship final, 2 p.m.
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The 2010 Memorial Cup opens in Brandon on Friday. Before then, the OHL is to announce which team will play host to the 2011 tournament.
With that in mind, the OHL has called a news conference for Monday in Mississauga and, yes, the St. Michael’s Majors are one of the four teams to have applied to play host to the 2011 Memorial Cup. Scheduled to attend the news conference are Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion, Majors owner Eugene Melnyk and OHL commissioner David Branch.
Also in the bidding were the Barrie Colts, Kingston Frontenacs and Windsor Spitfires.
And, yes, there might be some controversy attached to this selection.
Here’s the Toronto Sun’s Terry Koshan:
That Mississauga will be awarded the right to play host the Cup is a bit of a curious move, in that the Majors don’t draw well and reportedly were 19th in attendance in the OHL this season.
The Majors, under GM/coach Dave Cameron, should be a solid team in 2010-11 and will return most of their team from this past season. There will be plenty of arguments, however, that the Cup should have been awarded to the Spitfires, who have won the OHL title the past two seasons and had a 24 per cent increase in attendance in 2009-10.