Detroit Red Wings forward Drew Miller is slashed across the eye with a hockey skate. https://t.co/trKVe6jgLb pic.twitter.com/fmbirHXCk8
— [ Detroit News ] (@goinsidedetroit) April 1, 2015
D Patrick Baum (Swift Current, 1997-98) signed a one-year contract with Dresdner Eislöwen (Germany, DEL2). This season, with the Ravensburg Towerstars (Germany, DEL2), he had 17 points, including five goals, in 49 games. He is a dual Canadian-German citizen.
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TUESDAY’S GAMES:
In Edmonton, the Brandon Wheat Kings turned in a workmanlike effort as they beat the Oil Kings, 3-2. . . . Brandon leads the series 3-1 and gets its first chance to end it tonight in Edmonton. The game will be televised by Sportsnet on its 360 channel. . . . After a scoreless first period, the Wheat Kings took a 2-0 second-period lead when F Tyler Coulter scored at 8:24 and F Rihards Bukarts counted at 13:45, on a PP. . . . The Oil Kings got a big goal when F Andrew Koep scored at 19:03 of the second. . . . Brandon F Nolan Patrick countered that with his first playoff point just 36 seconds into the third. . . . Edmonton F Brandon Baddock pulled his guys close at 19:21. . . . F Jayce Hawrulyk had two assists for the Wheaties. . . . Brandon G Jordan Papirny stopped 30 shots, four fewer than Edmonton’s Tristan Jarry. . . . Brandon was 1-for-3 on the PP; Edmonton was 0-for-3. . . . F Mads Eller, who went hard into an open gate at the Edmonton bench in Game 3, was scratched by the Oil Kings. That allowed F Garan Magnes to get into the lineup. . . . The Wheat Kings were without F Morgan Klimchuk, who suffered an undisclosed injury in Game 3. D Mark Matsuba went back into the lineup to fill that spot. . . . F Duncan Campbell moved into Klimchuk’s spot alongside Patrick and Peter Quenneville. . . . Edmonton F Blake Orban took a shot to the face off the stick of Brandon D Ivan Provorov early in the third period and didn’t return. . . . Attendance was 5,357. . . . Rob Henderson of the Brandon Sun has a game story right here.
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The Brandon Wheat Kings played Game 4 of their series with the Edmonton Oil Kings last night in the Alberta capital. However, subscribers to the Brandon Sun won’t find a game story in today’s newspaper. With the decision to change the starting time to 8 p.m. — that’s 9 p.m. in Brandon — in order to allow Sportsnet to televise the game, Sun sports editor Rob Henderson had no chance of getting a game story in by the newspaper’s 11:05 p.m. deadline. As a result, Henderson filed a story that was posted on the Sun’s website. . . . The exercise will be repeated again tonight as Sportsnet televises Game 5, as well.
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F Grant Mismash of Edina, Minn., has said he will attend the U of North Dakota and play hockey there. Mismash, who turned 16 on Feb. 19, is at Shattuck St. Mary’s, the prep school in Faribault, Minn. This season, he had 31 goals and 31 assists in 52 games. . . . The Red Deer Rebels selected him in the fifth round of the 2014 bantam draft.
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The Prince George Cougars have signed F Brogan O’Brien, who has played the last two seasons with the BCHL’s Prince George Spruce Kings. This season, he had 29 points, including 12 goals, in 57 games. . . . O’Brien, who will turn 18 on Aug.13, is from Prince George. . . . The Cougars acquired his right in a January trade in which F Chance Braid joined the Kelowna Rockets. . . . The Rockets selected him in the 10th round of the 2012 bantam draft. . . . O’Brien practised with the Cougars on Tuesday.
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THE COACHING GAME:
Don Schulz is the new head coach of the major midget Thompson Blazers, who play out of the Kamloops area. Schulz spent four seasons as head coach of the Thompson Rivers University WolfPack of the B.C. Intercollegiate League. The WolfPack program collapsed prior to this season. . . . With the Blazers, Schulz will replace Mark Chase. . . . The Blazers were 2-35-3 this season.———
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In Brandon, F Tim McGauley had a goal and two assists to lead the Wheat Kings to a 4-1 victory over the Saskatoon Blades. . . . McGauley scored his 42nd goal at 3:54 of the first period to run his point streak to 24 games, the longest in the WHL this season. He’s got 51 points, including 17 goals, in that stretch. . . . McGauley also took over the WHL scoring lead. He’s got 103 points, two more than F Trevor Cox of the Medicine Hat Tigers and three more than Portland Winterhawks F Oliver Bjorkstrand. . . . The last Wheat Kings skater to win a WHL scoring title was F Eric Fehr, with 111 points, in 2004-05. . . . F Morgan Klimchuk scored Brandon’s second goal, breaking a 1-1 tie, to run his point streak to 12 games. . . . Klimchuk finished with two goals, giving him 32. . . . Wheat Kings D Ivan Provorov scored his 15th goal. . . . F Peter Quenneville had two assists for Brandon. . . . The Wheat Kings had F Kirklan Lycar in their lineup. Lycar, a 17-year-old from Elma, Man., played this season with the MJHL’s Dauphin Kings. He had 20 goals and seven assists in 53 games. . . . Brandon, already without F Nolan Patrick, F Reid Duke, D Kale Clague and F Quintin Lisoway, also scratched F John Quenneville. . . . Brandon G Alex Moodie stopped 19 shots in beating his former club. . . . Brandon was 3-for-7 on the PP; the Blades were 0-for-4. . . . The Wheat Kings (50-11-7) have won three in a row. . . . The Blades (19-46-4) have lost six straight. . . . 
In Red Deer, the Rebels erased a 2-0 deficit with three second-period goals and beat the Calgary Hitmen, 3-2. . . . D Travis Sanheim, with his 13th goal, and D Ben Thomas, with his seventh, scored 44 seconds apart late in the first for Calgary. . . . Red Deer F Riley Sheen got his guys on the board with a PP goal, his 21st, at 1:17 of the second. . . . F Preston Kopeck tied it with his 20th at 9:08 and D Brett Cote broke the tie with his ninth, on a PP, at 14;15. . . . Red Deer was 2-for-5 on the PP; Calgary was 0-for-2. . . . Rebels G Rylan Toth made 28 saves. . . . Calgary started Brendan Burke, who was beaten three times on 12 shots. Mack Shields played the third period, stopping seven shots. . . . Attendance was a season-high 7,058. . . . The Rebels (37-21-10) have won five straight. . . . The Hitmen (40-22-5) have lost three in a row. . . . 
In Moose Jaw, the Regina Pats scored the game’s last four goals and beat the Warriors, 4-3. . . . Moose Jaw took a 3-0 lead when F Axel Blomqvist scored his 24th goal at 14:19 of the first. . . . Regina F Patrick D’Amico got his 19th goal at 14:48 of the first. . . . Pats D Colby Williams got his side to within a goal with his 10th goal at 19:19 of the second. . . . Regina F Rykr Cole scored his ninth goal to tie it at 1:03 of the third. . . . F Pavel Padakin got the winner, his 26th, shorthanded, at 15:12. . . . The Pats thought D’Amico had scored just before that, but he ended up with a penalty instead. . . . After the game, Regina head coach John Paddock told reporters. “I got whacked once already this year, but all I know is that there were two game-winning goals.” . . . Moose Jaw F Brayden Point, celebrating his 19th birthday and playing in his 200th game, scored his 34th goal. . . . Regina G Tyler Brown stopped 33 shots, three more than Moose Jaw’s Zach Sawchenko. . . . Warriors F Jaimen Yakubowski, just off a stint on the injury list with a shoulder injury, didn’t finish the game. He left after taking a check from Regina F Austin Wagner. . . . The Pats (37-22-9) have won two in a row. . . . The Warriors (29-34-5) have lost two straight. . . . Matthew Gourlie of the Moose Jaw Times-Herald has a game story 
In Cranbrook, F Jaedon Descheneau and F Matt Alfaro each scored twice as the Kootenay Ice dumped the Medicine Hat Tigers, 7-1. . . . Ice F Austin Vetterl snapped a 1-1 tie with a PP goal at 8:49 of the first period and the home side took it from there. . . . Descheneau, who has 32 goals, also had an assist. . . . Alfaro has 12 goals. . . . D Tanner Lishchynsky, D Tyler King and F Levi Cable each had two assists for the Ice, while F Luke Philp scored his 30 goal and added two helpers. . . . Vetterl added two assists to his goal. . . . Ice F Sam Reinhart scored his 18th goal. . . . The Tigers’ goal came from F Trevor Cox, his 26th. He scored while shorthanded at 8:20 of the first period. . . . Kootenay G Wyatt Hoflin stopped 32 shots, setting a franchise single-season record in the process. That record (1,724) had been held by Tim Winters (1996-97). . . . The Tigers were missing D Ty Stanton and D Tommy Vannelli. . . . The Ice (35-29-4) has won two straight. . . . The Tigers are 41-23-3. . . . Taylor Rocca of the Cranbrook Daily Townsman has a game story 
In Prince Albert, the Swift Current Broncos scored two shootout goals and beat the Raiders, 2-1. . . . F Glenn Gawdin and F Jake DeBrusk scored for the winners in the shootout; F Reid Gardiner scored for the Raiders. . . . D Brendan Guhle gave the Raiders a 1-0 lead with a PP goal at 5:18 of the first period. He’s got four goals. . . . Broncos F Coda Gordon got his 24th goal at 9:38 of the second period. . . . Broncos G Landon Bow stopped 46 shots, six fewer than Prince Albert’s Nick McBride. . . . The Raiders were without F Austin Glover, who isn’t likely to play tonight or Sunday either. . . . The Broncos (31-32-5) ended a seven-game losing skid. . . . The Raiders (28-35-4) had a four-game winning streak snapped. . . . 
In Lethbridge, F Mads Eller had a goal and two assists to help the Edmonton Oil Kings to a 5-2 victory over the Hurricanes. . . . Oil Kings D Jake Kohlhauser broke a 1-1 tie with his first WHL goal at 2:59 of the second period. . . . Kulda upped the lead to 3-1 with a PP goal, his 13th, at 17:41. . . . F Jamal Watson, with No 24, and F Tyler Wong, with No. 26, scored for Lethbridge. . . . Edmonton G Patrick Dea stopped 24 shots. . . . The Oil Kings (33-29-7) have won three in a row. . . . The Hurricanes (20-39-8) have lost three straight. . . . 
In Kamloops, the Blazers snapped an 18-game losing streak against Kelowna as they beat the Rockets, 5-1. . . . Yes, Kelowna had beaten Kamloops in 18 straight regular-season games. . . . Kamloops F Collin Shirley scored his side’s first two goals, at 0:33 and 15:59 of the second period. The second goal came via the PP. . . . Kelowna F Gage Quinney got his 16th goal at 19:30 of the second, via the PP, but the Blazers scored the game’s last three goals. . . . Kamloops F Cole Ully and F Jesse Zaharichuk each had two assists. . . . Among the Rockets’ scratches were F Tyrell Goulbourne, F Rourke Chartier, F Justin Kirkland and D Josh Morrissey. . . . With the injury situation, the Rockets have familiarity and communication issues on the ice, and that leads to players going 1-on-1 a lot. They were thoroughly outplayed by the Blazers in this one. . . . Kamloops G Connor Ingram stopped 22 shots in winning for the 20th time in his freshman season. . . . Kelowna G Jackson Whistle turned aside 31 shots. . . . Kamloops was 1-for-6 on the PP; Kelowna was 1-for-4. . . . The Blazers (27-34-7) have won two in a row. . . . The Rockets (50-13-5) have lost two straight. They have been beaten twice in a row in regulation time for only the first time this season. . . . 
In Kennewick, Wash., the Tri-City Americans erased a 2-0 second-period deficit and beat the Prince George Cougars, 7-4. . . . F David Soltes, with his 11th, and D Josh Connolly, with No. 13, gave the Cougars a 2-0 lead. . . . The Americans stormed back to lead 3-2 on second-period goals by F Ty Comrie, his seventh, F Brian Williams, No. 16, and F Max James, his third. . . . Cougars F Chase Witala got his 35th at 16:19 of the second, to tie it 3-3, only to have F Jordan Topping score his 10th goal at 17:55 for a 4-3 Tri-City lead. . . . Americans F Justin Gutierrez, who also had two assists, scored his 10th goal at 3:35 and F Lucas Nickles added his 23rd at 8:45 for some insurance. He later scored into an empty net. . . . The Americans got two assists from each of D Justin Hamonic, F Richard Nejezchleb and D Parker Wotherspoon. . . . Cougars F Zach Pochiro scored his 17th goal and added two assists, while F Brad Morrison had two assist. . . . Tri-City G Eric Comrie made 36 saves. . . . The Americans (29-35-3) had lost their previous two games. . . . The Cougars (28-35-5) have lost three straight (0-2-1). . . . Annie Fowler of the Tri-City Herald has a game story 
In Spokane, the Chiefs blew a 3-0 lead but then scored the game’s last two goals and beat the Portland Winterhawks, 5-3. . . . The Chiefs held a 3-0 first-period lead on goals by F Adam Helewka, his 39th, on a PP, F Riley Whittingham, his 15th, and F Kailer Yamamoto, his 20th, shorthanded. . . . Portland D Anton Cederholm got his guys going with his eighth goal at 9:43 of the second. . . . F Oliver Bjorkstrand got his WHL-leading 55th goal at 19:47 of the second, via the PP, and F Chase De Leo tied the game with his 34th at 5:29 of the third. . . . Whittingham broke the tie at 9:39 of the third period, while on the PP, and F Dominic Zwerger added an empty-netter. . . . Bjorkstrand’s goal was his 100th point of the season. He now has back-to-back 100-points seasons. . . . Chiefs D Jason Fram had two assists. . . . Portland F Nic Petan drew one assist, giving him 350 career regular-season points in 246 games. . . . Spokane was 3-for-7 on the PP; Portland was 1-for-4. . . . The Chiefs (33-29-4) have won two in a row. This victory was head coach Don Nachbaur’s 200th with the Chiefs. . . . The Winterhawks (40-21-5) are 9-1-2 in their last 12 games and 17-2-2 in their last 21. . . . 
In Vancouver, G Coleman Vollrath stopped 25 shots to lead the Victoria Royals to a 2-0 victory over the Giants. . . . Vollrath has five shutouts this season. He now shares the franchise’s single-season record with Lucas Gore (2009-10, 2010-11) and Patrik Polivka (2013-14). . . . F Brandon Magee scored his 21st goal, shorthanded, at 7:49 of the first period. . . . F Alex Forsberg got No. 26 at 2:11 of the second. . . . Vancouver G Cody Porter stopped 23 shots. . . . F Parker Smyth, a 16-year-old from Red Deer, made his Vancouver debut. He was a second-round selection by Saskatoon in the 2013 bantam draft. The Giants acquired him in January for a 2016 sixth-round pick. He played this season with the midget AAA Red Deer Optimist Chiefs. Smyth is the son of former NHLer Kevin Smyth, who played with the Moose Jaw Warriors (1990-93). . . . The Royals (37-27-4) have won three straight. . . . The Giants (26-39-3) are on an eight-game skid. . . . 
In Kent, Wash., D Jerret Smith scored in the seventh round of a shootout to give the Seattle Thunderbirds a 3-2 victory over the Everett Silvertips. . . . F Roberts Lipsbergs scored for Seattle in the second round after Everett F Carson Stadnyk had scored in the first round. . . . Lipsbergs scored both of Seattle’s regulation-time goals, the first on a PP at 14:11 of the first period for a 1-0 lead. That goal followed a diving call against Everett F Ivan Nikolishin. . . . Lipsbergs’ second goal, and 14th of the season, gave Seattle a 2-1 lead at 9:57 of the third. . . . D Noah Juulsen scored his eighth goal for Everett at 15:13 of the first and Stadnyk’s 26th, at 17:59 of the third, forced OT. . . . F Kohl Bauml and D Cole MacDonald each had two assists for Everett. . . . Seattle G Taran Kozun stopped 21 shots, one fewer than Everett’s Carter Hart. . . . Seattle (34-24-9) has won two in a row. . . . The Silvertips (40-27-8) have lost two straight.
In Prince Albert, F Austin Glover had two goals and an assist to help the Raiders to a 6-4 victory over the the Brandon Wheat Kings. . . . The Raiders led 4-0 at 3:22 of the second period, only have Brandon tie it before the end of the period. . . . F Simon Stransky broke the tie with his 10th goal at 1:10 of the third. Glover got the empty-netter, his 11th goal this season, at 19:39. . . . F Reid Gardiner scored his 28th goal and added two assists for the Raiders, who got three assists from D Brendan Guhle. . . . F Jayce Hawryluk, who sat out the previous 13 games with an undisclosed injury, scored three times for Brandon. He’s got 22 goals and is the club’s sixth 20-goal man. . . . Brandon F Tim McGauley ran his point streak to 15 games when he scored his 35th goal of the season. . . . Prince Albert G Nick McBride stopped 31 shots. . . . The Raiders were 1-for-2 on the PP; the Wheaties were 0-for-4. . . . With G Alex Moodie (undisclosed injury) out, the Wheat Kings had brought in G Logan Thompson to back up G Jordan Papirny. However, Thompson was ill and a scratch last night. . . . Brandon continues to be without F Nolan Patrick, F Reid Duke, D Ivan Provorov and D Kale Clague, all out with undisclosed injuries. . . . The Raiders (24-32-3) had lost their last two games (0-1-1). . . . The Wheat Kings (43-10-6) suffered their first regulation-time loss since Jan. 10. They had been 14-0-2 in their previous 16 games and had won nine straight on the road. . . . 
In Regina, the Pats ran their winning streak over Saskatoon to 13 games with a 4-1 victory over the Blades. . . . Regina F Adam Brooks, who had missed eight games with a knee injury, scored his 21st goal and added an assist. The Pats also got a goal, his 18th, and an assist from Jesse Gabrielle. . . . Regina scored three times in the second period, the first, from F Braden Christoffer, coming 44 seconds in on a PP. he’s got 18 goals. . . . Regina F Patrick D’Amico had two assists. . . . F Ryan Graham, who had missed nine games with a back injury, scored his 14th goal, a shorthanded effort, for the Blades. . . . Regina G Daniel Wapple made his 15th straight start. He stopped 32 shots, eight more than Brock Hamm of the Blades. . . . The Pats (31-19-7) had lost their previous three games (0-3-1). . . . The Blades (17-38-3) have lost two in a row. . . . 
In Kamloops, F Brayden Point’s three goals led the Moose Jaw Warriors to a 4-3 victory over the Blazers. . . . Point scored the game’s first two goals, at 4:38 of the first, on a PP, and at 12:58. . . . Warriors F Jack Rodewald got his 28th at 9:00 of the second, on a PP, for a 3-0 lead. . . . F Cole Ully, with his 29th, and F Joel Hamilton, with his 12th, got the Blazers to within one but they weren’t able to tie it. . . . Point stretched the lead to 4-2 with his 26th goal at 15:34 of the second. . . . Hamilton got his second of the game, and 13th of the season, on a PP at 19:37 of the third period. . . . D Dustin Perillat and F Axel Blomqvist each had two assists for the visitors. . . . Moose Jaw G Zach Sawchenko stopped 31 shots, six more than Connor Ingram of the Blazers. . . . Moose Jaw was 2-for-6 on the PP; Kamloops was 1-for-4. . . . The Warriors (24-30-5) are 2-0-1 in their last three. They are 3-2-1 on a seven-game road trip that ends tonight in Prince George. . . . Kamloops (22-32-6) has lost three in a row. . . . 
In Portland, the Winterhawks broke a 2-2 tie with three third-period goals and beat the Vancouver Giants, 5-2. . . . F Keegan Iverson gave Portland a 3-2 lead with his ninth goal at 3:52 and F Skyler McKenzie added insurance with his third goal at 4:49. . . . Portland D Layne Viveiros iced it with his sixth goal at 14:18. . . . F Oliver Bjorkstrand notched his 41st goal for the Winterhawks. . . . Vancouver F Dalton Sward forged a 2-2 tie with his 11th at 19:17 of the first. . . . F Dominic Turgeon, with his 18th goal, and McKenzie each added an assist. . . . Giants G Jackson Houck got his 19th goal and also had an assist. . . . Portland G Adin Hill stopped 31 shots, 10 fewer than Vancouver’s Payton Lee. . . . Portland was 0-for-7 on the PP; Vancouver was 0-for-2. . . . The Winterhawks (34-20-4) have points in four straight (3-0-1). . . . The Giants (25-31-3) had won their previous two. . . . 
In Spokane, the Calgary Hitmen scored the game’s last three goals, all in the third period, and beat the Chiefs, 4-3. . . . F Kailer Yamamoto’s 18th goal gave the Chiefs a 3-1 lead at 4:57 of the third. . . . D Micheal Zipp got his ninth goal at 6:23 to get Calgary to within a goal. . . . F Elliott Peterson, with his ninth, tied it at 7:48. . . . D Colby Harmsworth won it with his second goal of the season, at 12:38. . . . F Adam Tambellini drew two assists for the Hitmen. . . . Calgary G Brendan Burke turned aside 26 shots, six more than Spokane’s Garret Hughson. . . . Spokane F Calder Brooks had one assist in his first game since Jan. 2. He had been out with an undisclosed injury. . . . The Chiefs also had D Nick Charif back in the lineup. He last played on Jan. 24. . . . This was the first of 11 straight road games for the Hitmen, whose home building is being taken over by the Canadian men’s curling championship. . . . The game featured a matchup of the Helgesen brothers, F Kenton, 20 with the Hitmen and D Tyson, 17, with the Chiefs. They are from Fairview, Alta., and had family in the crowd. "It was a pretty special experience," Kenton told Chris Derrick of the Spokane Spokesman-Review. "I've never really played against him. . It was kind of cool. We were kind of hitting each other a few times and getting into it.” . . . The Hitmen (35-18-5) have won three straight. . . . The Chiefs (27-26-4) have lost two in a row. . . . 
In Victoria, F Leon Draisaitl broke a 2-2 tie at 19:17 of the third period as the Kelowna Rockets beat the Royals, 3-2. . . . Kelowna D Josh Morrissey had tied the game, with his 13th goal, on a PP, at 12:36 of the third. . . . Draisaitl, who also had two assists, has 10 goals. . . . F Austin Carroll scored his 34th goal for the Royals, giving them a 1-0 lead at 1:48 of the first. . . . Kelowna F Cole Linaker tied it with his 13th, on a PP, at 10:29. . . . F Greg Chase scored his 17th, on a PP, at 9:51 of the second to give the home side a 2-1 edge. . . . Kelowna was 2-for-6 on the PP; Victoria was 2-for-7. . . . Morrissey now is on a 10-game point streak. . . . Kelowna G Michael Herringer stopped 25 shots, four fewer than Coleman Vollrath of the Royals. . . . The minor penalties handed out includes seven for roughing, two for checking from behind and one for a headshot. . . . The Rockets (46-9-4) have won four straight. . . . The Royals (32-23-4) have lost two in a row. . . . 
State House Committee on Labor in the state capital of Olympia on Tuesday.
In Medicine Hat, the Tigers scored the only two goals of a shootout and beat the Regina Pats, 5-4. . . . Tigers F Markus Eisenschmid forced OT when he scored his second goal of the game and 17th of the season with 15.6 seconds left in the third period. . . . F Dryden Hunt and F Cole Sanford scored the shootout goals. . . . F Austin Wagner’s 18th goal, at 1:01 of the third period, gave the Pats a 3-1 lead. . . . The Tigers tied it on goals from Eisenschmid, at 6:53, and D Kyle Burroughs, on a PP, at 8:32. Burroughs has six goals. . . . Regina F Braden Christoffer gave his side the lead with his 17th goal at 9:52. . . . Hunt had two assists. . . . F Pavel Padakin scored twice for the Pats, giving him 19. . . . Regina G Daniel Wapple stopped 45 shots through OT, 18 more than Medicine Hat’s Marek Langhamer. . . . The Tigers (36-15-3) had lost four in a row (0-3-1). They now lead the Central Division by eight points over the Calgary Hitmen, who have won eight straight. . . . The Pats (30-17-7), who are a comfortable second in the East Division, have points in six straight (4-0-2). . . .
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