Tuesday . . .

THE MacBETH REPORT:
G Kevin Nastiuk (Medicine Hat, 2001-05), D Richie Regehr (Kelowna, Portland, 1998-2004) and F Jeff Friesen (Regina, 1991-95) all signed one-year contract extensions with Eisbären Berlin (Germany DEL). . . . Nastiuk started the season with Idaho (ECHL, one game, two goals allowed, .917 save percentage), moved on to Corpus Christi (CHL, 26 games, 2.59 GAA, .921 save percentage) before joining Eisbären (four games, 1.88 GAA, .942 save percentage). . . . Regehr had 15 goals and 24 assists in 55 games and Friesen had 15 goals and 30 assists in 53 games this season. . . .
D Ryan Gaucher (Saskatoon, 1996-99) signed a one-year contract extension with the SERC Wild Wings Schwennigen (Germany 2.Bundesliga). He had five goals and 41 assists in 51 games this season. . . .
F Dylan Gyori (Tri-City, 1994-99) signed a one-year contract extension with EHC München (Germany 2.Bundesliga). He had 16 goals and 30 assists in 49 games this season for the 2.Bundesliga champions.
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Troy Mick is on the move after a banner season as general manager and head coach of the junior B Revelstoke, B.C., Grizzlies. Mick has signed a five-year contract as director of hockey operations and player development at Pursuit of Excellence, a hockey academy based in Kelowna. This is a new position created at PoE; it’s also believed that Mick will coach the academy’s top midget team. Mick, 41, also is a co-owner of the Grizzlies, a position he will maintain. Under Mick, the Grizzlies won everthing there was to win this season — the Kootenay International junior league title, the Cyclone Taylor Cup as B.C. champions, and the Keystone Cup as Western Canadian champions. Mick, who played minor hockey in Vernon, B.C., played in the WHL and also has coach in the WHL and BCHL. . . . Mick’s son Logan, 13, will play for PoE’s bantam team.
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Jack Brodsky, the president and governor of the Saskatoon Blades, has firmed up the club’s hockey operations department through the 2012-13 season.
Assistant GM Jarrod Brodsky and head scout Doug Molleken have had their contracts extended through 2012-13. . . . Assistant coach David Struch has signed a new contract through 2012-13, as has trainer Steve (Hilty) Hildebrand. . . . Lorne Molleken, the GM and head coach, already was signed through 2012-13. . . . Jack Brodsky, along with his brother Bob and their sister Debbie, own 100 per cent of the franchise that their late father, Nate, acquired in 1980. . . . Jarrod Brodsky is Bob’s son and has been working in the Blades’ office since 2001. He has been the AGM since 2005. . . . Doug Molleken, Lorne’s younger brother, has been part of the Blades’ scouting staff for seven seasons. He is into his fifth season as head scout. . . . Struch, a former Blades sniper, is preparing for his fifth season as an assistant coach. . . . Hildebrandt has been with the Blades since 2000, with the exception of the 2006-07 season, when he worked for the AHL’s Manitoba Moose.
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Former NHL D Steven Finn has joined the coaching staff of the QMJHL’s Lewiston MAINEiacs. Finn will work with Lewiston’s defencemen, while also co-ordinating the team’s scouting in Quebec. Finn, 44, played 725 games in the NHL and spent 10 seasons with the Quebec Nordiques. His son, Samuel, is Lewiston defenceman.
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The Edmonton Oil Kings have signed their two first-round picks from the 2010 bantam draft. . . . F Curtis Lazar, the second overall selection in the draft, had 115 points, including 57 goals, with a Pursuit of Excellence bantam team in Kelowna. From Vernon, B.C., Lazar led the team in goals and points. He also had five points in four games with PoE’s midget team. . . . D Mason Geertsen had 22 points and 39 penalty minutes in 33 gams with the bantam AAA Leduc, Alta., Allen's Transport Oil Kings. Geertsen was taken by Edmonton with the 18th pick in the first round.
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The OHL’s Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds have announced that assistant coach Mike Stapleton won’t have his contract renewed after two seasons with the team.
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G Brady Hjelle has left the NCAA’s Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs and apparently wants to play junior. Hjelle, 20, is from International Falls, Minn., but I don’t believe he is on any WHL team’s protected list. He was 9-7-1 with a 2.85 GAA and a .898 save percentage this season with the Bulldogs.
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B.C. Hockey has announced the names of the coaches for teams in the B.C. Major Midget League for the 2010-11 season.
Trevor Sprague enters his third season as head coach of the Prince George-based Cariboo Cougars.
Pat Ansell is back as head coach of the Fraser Valley Bruins.
Leland Mack is going into his second season as head coach of the Greater Vancouver Canadians, with Steve Parsons going into season No. 2 with the North Island Silvertips.
Misko Antisin is the head coach of the Okanagan Rockets, who play out of Kelowna. He is entering his second season with the Rockets.
Craig Didmond is the new head coach of the South Island Thunderbirds. He had been an associate coach with the BCHL’s Victoria Grizzlies for the last two seasons.
Tyler Forsythe, a former GM and assistant coach with the BCHL’s Merritt Centennials, is preparing for his first season as head coach of the Kamlooops-based Thompson Blazers.
Ryan Weber and Rob Rogers are co-coaches with the Valley West Hawks. Both took 2009-10 off after working as assistant coaches with the Greater Vancouver Canadians in 2008-09.
Doneau Menard, who has been head coach of the Vancouver North East Chiefs, since 2006-07, is returning.
Todd Harkins will be the first-year head coach of the Vancouver North West Giants. He takes over from Jon Calvano, now the head coach of the BCHL’s Coquitlam Express.
A head coach for the Kootenay Ice will be announced at a later date.
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He coached the Chicago Blackhawks to the 1961 Stanley Cup but he is largely forgotten in the Windy City. Rudy Pilous also spent three seasons (1971-74) as head coach of the Brandon Wheat Kings. David Haugh of the Chicago Tribune has more right here.
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At least three WHL players who were selected in the 2008 NHL draft have failed to sign pro deals and now are free agents or can go back into the draft. . . . G Jacob DeSerres, a third-round pick, wasn’t signed by the Philadelphia Flyers and could return to the Brandon Wheat Kings as a 20-year-old. . . . F Matt Tassone, who has been plagued by injuries the last couple of seasons, wasn’t signed by the Dallas Stars, who took him in the sixth round. He played out his eligibility with the Swift Current Broncos this season. . . . F Geordie Wudrick, a third-round pick, wasn’t able to get a deal done with the Los Angeles Kings and could return to the Kelowna Rockets as a 20-year-old.