It's 2016 people... Stop playing Cotton-Eye Joe. Seriously. Stop it.— Sunaya Sapurji (@sunayas) November 15, 2016
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D Giffen Nyren (Moose Jaw, Kamloops, Calgary, 2006-10) has signed a contract for the rest of this season with Dijon (France, Ligue Magnus). This season, he was pointless in one game with the Colorado Eagles (ECHL). . . .
F Martin Šagát (Kootenay, 2003-05) has signed a contract for the rest of this season with Slavia Prague (Czech Republic, 1. Liga). Last season, he had four goals and seven assists in 36 games with the Herning Blue Fox (Denmark, Metal Ligaen). . . .
F Kirill Starkov (Red Deer, 2006-07) has signed a tryout contract with La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland, NL B). Last season, he had 13 goals and 21 assists in 44 games with Red Ice Martigny (Switzerland, NL B). He was the team captain. . . .
A completely random note: La Chaux-de-Fonds lost to Ajoie in a shootout 3-2 (4-3 in the SO) Sunday. The shootout went 23 rounds. IIHF.com indicates that this is a men's international record. The NHL record is 20 rounds.
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Looking forward to spending some time in Moose Jaw this winter cheering on the Warriors! @MJWARRIORS pic.twitter.com/BXm9SyCJzb— Shawna Burke (@BurkeShawna) November 15, 2016
Peter Anholt, the general manager of the Lethbridge Hurricanes, has apologized for comments he made last week, according to Alan Millar, the general manager of the Moose Jaw Warriors.
Anholt traded high-scoring F Brayden Burke to the Warriors on Tuesday. Later, when asked why he moved Burke, Anholt made a number of statements for which he later was fined $1,000 by the WHL.
While Anholt and Burke haven’t spoken, Millar said that an apology has been issued.
“The apology came from my discussion with Peter,” Millar said. “Peter put a note in writing to me and Brayden and his family, and we’ve left it at that.”
Anholt couldn’t be reached for confirmation on Monday night.
As for further comment, Millar said: “We’re going to move onward and upward. I’m not going to try and
“I’ve been in this game a long time. I understand when things aren’t going well, we can go off the handle a little bit and make comments. I might have made a few to the referee supervisor who was here the other night. It’s a competitive game, emotions run high.”
Burke also was present at the media availability in Moose Jaw, but if there were questions about Anholt’s comments directed his way they were edited from the video that was posted on the Warriors’ website.
“I’m really excited,” Burke said. “They’ve got a really good team here. I think i can come in and help and hopefully we can get a long playoff push and win some hockey games.”
Burke had 23 points, including 19 assists, at the time of the trade. Last season, he finished third in the WHL scoring race, with 109 points, including 82 assists.
“They’ve got a lot of guys that can score here,” he said. “Hopefully, I can set them up and be a good 200-foot player.”
Head coach Tim Hunter said it could be that he doesn’t find a firm spot for Burke in the lineup until F Brett Howden returns from a shoulder injury. He is listed as day-to-day.
“We’ll see,” Hunter said. “We have to find some chemistry . . . on where he’s going to fit . . . whether he’s going to play left wing or right wing . . . he’s played both (and) he’s comfortable at both spots.
“But he’s going to be a difference-maker for us.”
Moose Jaw has played two games without Burke, who was acquired on Tuesday but didn’t join the team until Sunday. The Warriors lost both games at home — 5-4 to the Regina Pats and 8-7 to the Red Deer Rebels.
The Warriors next play Thursday when they meet the Blades in Saskatoon.
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@110PercentPod @WHLHurricanes @PeterAnholt Need to start a fund for Peter's fine. Totally agree with him putting the comment out there.— Paul Figler (@RDFigs19) November 15, 2016
The Lethbridge Hurricanes have dropped F Jesse Zaharichuk, 19, from their roster.
“He admittedly isn’t committed enough . . .,” general manager Peter Anholt told the podcast 110 Percent (Hurricanes This Week) on Monday.
Anholt said Zaharichuk has been “assigned” to the AJHL’s Drumheller Dragons. “I don’t know if that’s
Zaharichuk had 17 points, including eight goals, in 17 games this season. A native of Sherwood Park, Alta., Zaharichuk also has played with the Kamloops Blazers and Kootenay Ice. In 125 regular-season games, he has 73 points, 23 of them goals.
Anholt had little to say about his decision to trade F Brayden Burke, 19, the team’s leading scorer, to the Moose Jaw Warriors last week.
“I don’t think we have to talk about the Burke trade,” Anholt said. “I think there’s been enough said about that . . . and enough repercussions.”
If you’re a regular here, you’re aware that the WHL fined Anholt $1,000 for comments he made following the trade. On the podcast, Anholt explained his comments this way: “You don’t trade your 100-point guy and not have to say something about it. We’ll just leave it at that.”
In exchange for Burke, who finished third in the WHL scoring race last season, the Hurricanes acquired F Ryan Bowen, a second-round selection in the 2017 bantam draft and a conditional third-round pick in the 2019 draft. Bowen has a shoulder injury and it’s hoped that he will be in the Lethbridge lineup for weekend games.
As well, D Brady Reagan, who was suspended by the team on Oct. 28 for “violating team rules,” is expected to be back in the lineup on Wednesday against the visiting Kootenay Ice. Reagan, 19, will have sat out six games.
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Yes, it’s early, but there are indications that the Regina Pats are in the infancy of one of those seasons. They are 14-0-3 and continue to be the only one of the CHL’s 60 teams not have lost a game in regulation time. They have won 10 in a row. They have yet to lose in regulation time. . . . Kevin Shaw, who is the go-to guy when it comes to Pats stats, writes: “The last time the Pats won 10 straight games happened in the 1985-86 season. The streak started with a 6-4 win over the Brandon Wheat Kings on Oct. 13, 1985 and was ended by the Moose Jaw Warriors on Nov. 11, 1985.” . . . Shaw has a whole lot more on the Pats right here.
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The ECHL’s Orlando Solar Bears have signed Drake Berehowsky as head coach, replacing Anthony Noreen, who was fired on Monday. This is the second stint with Orlando for Berehowsky, 44. He was the franchise’s first head coach, in 2012-13. Between then an now, he has worked as the head coach of the WHL’s Lethbridge Hurricanes and with the OHL’s Sudbury Wolves. He was in his second season as the Wolves’ associate coach when the Solar Bears called. . . . Orlando (5-5-1) is tied for fourth in the seven-team South Division, four points out of third place. . . . Noreen, 33, was in his second season with the Solar Bears after four seasons as GM/head coach of the USHL’s Youngstown Phantoms.
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Misko Antisin has been named the interim head coach of the BCHL’s Salmon Arm Silverbacks. He is expected to be in that position for the remainder of this season, replacing Brandon West, who was fired last week. . . . Antisin was an assistant coach with the Silverbacks for the previous two seasons. He moved to Steamboat Springs, Colo., prior to this season, and was the general manager/head coach of a Tier 3 franchise that the Silverbacks purchased. . . . The Silverbacks, who won two games over the weekend with assistant coaches Brooks Christensen and Darrell Hay in charge, will have Antisin behind the bench on Thursday when they meet the host Surrey Eagles.
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JUST NOTES:
Victoria F Matt Phillips picked up his 50th goal and 100th point with the Royals during Saturday’s 5-1 loss to the visiting Tri-City Americans. He is the 18th player in franchise history with at least 100 points. . . . Phillips also set a Royals record as the quickest sniper to score 50 goals. He did in 93 games. F Oscar Moller did it in 86 games with the Chilliwack Bruins (remember them?), who morphed into the Royals. . . .
F Dylan Stewart, 19, no longer is with the Kootenay Ice. The team tweeted Monday that the parties “have mutually agreed to part ways.” Stewart, from Edmonton, had two goals and four assists in 19 games this season. He was a fifth-round pick by the Prince Albert Raiders in the 2012 WHL bantam draft. He was dealt to the Ice, along with a conditional fifth-round pick in the 2017 bantam draft, for F Drew Warkentine on Oct. 21, 2015. . . . He has 23 points, including 12 goals, in 143 career games. . . . The Ice now is carrying 22 players, including two goaltenders and seven defencemen. . . .
Patrick Conway’s regular team-by-team look at the KHL is right here. He also has news of the KHL and possible contraction.
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Just settled a divorce over visitation of a parrot. Neither may teach it negative phrases about the other. I went to law school for this.— Michael Adler (@madler9000) November 14, 2016
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MONDAY’S GAMES:
No Games Scheduled.
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TUESDAY’S GAMES (all times local):
Calgary at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Prince George at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Kootenay, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Red Deer at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
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In Cranbrook, the Medicine Hat Tigers broke a 1-1 tie with two goals 10 seconds apart and went on to a 4-1 victory over the Kootenay Ice. . . . Kootenay F Levi Cable had tied the game with his 11th goal at 19:42 of the second period. . . . Tigers F Chad Labelle got his third goal at 8:21 of the third and F Cole Sanford made it 3-1 with his 20th goal at 8:31. . . . The victory was No. 200 with the Tigers for GM/head coach Shaun Clouston. His total stands at 216, thanks to 16 victories with the Tri-City Americans. . . . The Tigers went 3-1 on a four-game road trip. . . . Medicine Hat G Marek Langhamer was terrific, with 26 saves. . . . Ice F Sam Reinhart, playing his last game before leaving for the Canadian national junior team’s selection camp, had his point streak end at 14 games, while F Jaedon Descheneau’s streak ended at 13. . . . Ice G Wyatt Hoflin, making his 20th straight start, stopped 34 shots. . . . The Tigers dressed only 16 skaters, two under the maximum. . . . F Chad Butcher was among the Tigers’ scratches. He may have suffered his second concussion in about a month on a hit from Portland Winterhawks F Alex Schoenborn on Sunday. Schoenborn was given a boarding major a game misconduct on the play. The WHL ruled Monday that no further discipline was warranted. . . . The Tigers (22-7-2) head home to face the Kelowna Rockets on Friday. . . . The Ice slipped to 15-17-0. . . . Taylor Rocca of the Cranbrook Daily Towsman has a game story 
In Prince George, F Zach Pochiro scored two goals, including the Teddy Bear goal, and added an assist as the Cougars beat the Saskatoon Blades, 4-3. . . . Pochiro, who has five goals, scored the Teddy Bear goal, shorthanded, with 16.9 seconds left in the first period. . . . The Blades had opened the scoring when F Landon Welykholowa scored his fifth goal at 15:24. . . . The Blades scored first in all five games on their B.C. Division swing, and they finished 0-5. . . . Saskatoon F Sam McKechnie tied the score at 2 with his eighth goal, via the PP, at 8:11 of the second period. . . . Cougars F Brad Morrison broke the tie with his 10th goal at 9:58. . . . The Cougars lost D Sam Ruopp with a kneeing major and game misconduct for a hit on F Nick Zajac at 16:36 of the first period. Zajac needed help getting off the ice, but was back for the start of the second period. . . . Announced attendance was 4,800. . . . The Cougars (16-15-0) have won three in a row, while the Blades (7-22-3) have lost eight straight (0-6-2). . . . Daniel Nugent-Bowman of the Saskatoon StarPhoenix has a game story 
In Victoria, F Tyler Soy broke a scoreless tie in the third period as the Royals beat the Prince Albert Raiders, 1-0. . . . Soy, who has seven goals, scored at 3:19. . . . Victoria G Coleman Vollrath stopped 34 shots. He has two shutouts this season and three in his career. . . . Raiders G Rylan Parenteau turned aside 24 shots. . . . The game marked the return to Victoria of Raiders head coach Marc Habscheid. He coached the Chilliwack Bruins (remember them?) for two seasons and made the move to Victoria with the franchise where he ran the Royals for one season. . . . This was the second straight 1-0 setback for the Raiders, who lost by that identical score in Kelowna on Saturday. . . . The Royals (17-14-2) have won two in a row. . . . The Raiders (15-16-0) have lost two straight and are in Vancouver tonight in a game that will be televised by Shaw. . . . 
In Kennewick, Wash., the skills competition went six rounds before the Everett Silvertips beat the Tri-City Americans, 4-3. . . . Everett F Carson Stadnyk scored the only goal of the shootout. . . . Tri-City F Brian Williams forced OT with his second goal of the game and ninth of the season at 4:28 of the third period. . . . Everett F Matt Fonteyne went into the game with one goal in 28 outings this season. He scored twice in the second period, giving his side leads of 2-1 and 3-2. . . . F Jake Mykitiuk had two assists in his third game with the Silvertips. . . . Everett G Austin Lotz stopped 30 shots through OT and six more in the shootout. Nick Patterson of the Everett Herald reports that Lotz, in his last three shootouts, has stopped 25 of 26 attempts. . . . Tri-City G Evan Sarthou stopped 22 shots. . . . Everett has played 29 games this season and gone to OT on 10 occasions. . . . The Silvertips (18-7-4) has lost their previous two games. . . . The Americans now are 16-13-1.
The Kootenay Ice held Sam Reinhart Bobblehead Night last weekend, giving away 950 of the popular promotional items. The neat thing is that each of the Reinhart bobbleheads had been autographed by the Ice's third-year star. . . . So, you're wondering, how long does it take to sign 950 bobbleheads? . . . According to the Kootenay News Advertiser, "Sam took over five hours to complete the task." 
The Vancouver Giants will stage quite a celebration on Feb. 15 as they induct former captain Brendan Gallagher into their Ring of Honour. Gallagher, a stalwart with the NHL's Montreal Canadiens, is the Giants' all-time leading scorer. . . . Gallagher was a ninth-round selection in the WHL's 2007 bantam draft. He holds team records for goals (136) and points (280) in a career. . . . The Canadiens selected him in the fifth round of the NHL's 2010 draft. . . . According to a Giants news release: "The first 5,000 fans at the Saturday, Feb. 15 game vs. the Portland Winterhawks (7 p.m. faceoff) will receive a commemorative 8x10 collector piece, while 111 random fans will get to meet Brendan during the game." 
D Sam Grist of the Kamloops Blazers won't play tonight against the visiting Victoria Royals. Grist has drawn a one-game suspension for a hit on F Reid Petryk of the Edmonton Oil Kings on Wednesday night. Grist was given an interference major and a game misconduct on the play. Petryk needed help on the ice, but was back during the ensuing power play. . . . F Logan Nelson of the Victoria Royals drew a two-game suspension under supplemental discipline for a charging incident against the visiting Calgary Hitmen on Tuesday night. Nelson sat out Wednesday's game against the Hitmen -- the Victoria Times Colonist reported that he sat "due to an injury" -- so also will sit tonight in Kamloops. 
small towns being pushed to the OHL’s fringes? . . . While the story, which is 
CHL teams are businesses — each one of them is in the entertainment business. Yes, they also are in the business of developing players. But when you charge admission, you should be doing all you can to provide your customers with the best possible product.
the competition only serves to make you better.
D Shaone Morrisonn (Kamloops, 1999-2002) signed a one-year contract with TPS Turku (Finland, SM-Liiga). He had one goal and three assists in 46 games with Spartak Moscow (Russia, KHL) before being traded to CSKA Moscow (Russia, KHL) at the KHL trading deadline of Jan. 31, two games before the end of the regular season. With CSKA, he had one goal and one assist in those two games. . . .
The ECHL’s Orlando Solar Bears announced Thursday that head coach Drake Berehowsky won’t be returning for a second season. The Solar Bears were 28-37-7 under Berehowsky this season. . . . Darrell Romuld of CTV Lethbridge reported earlier this week that sources told him that Berehowsky will be named head coach of the Lethbridge Hurricanes on Thursday. . . . “I do not have a contract with anybody right now,” Berehowsky told Brendan Sonnone of the Orlando Sentinel. “That’s about all I can say.”
Former NHLer Todd Krygier is the new head coach of the USHL’s Muskegon Lumberjacks. Krygier, 47, who retired as a player in 2000, has been coaching at various levels in Michigan. He played 543 NHL games (1989-98_ with the Hartford Whalers, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, and Washington Capitals. . . . Krygier replaces Jim McKenzie, who was dismissed on May 24.
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