Showing posts with label Keanu Yamamoto. Show all posts
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Sunday, March 19, 2017

WHL's playoff stage is set . . . Last pairings set on final day . . . Post-season begins Friday




F Bud Holloway (Seattle, 2003-08) has signed a two-year contract extension with Skellefteå (Sweden, SHL). He had 11 goals and 11 assists in 26 games this season. Holloway started the season with CSKA Moscow (Russia, KHL) and had three goals and six assists in 12 games when he was released on Nov. 18. He signed with Skellefteå on Dec. 1.
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The rant is legendary. The NFL’s New York Jets were 2-5 in 2002 and head coach Herm Edwards wasn’t happy.
Addressing a news conference on Oct. 30, Edwards said: “This is what the greatest thing about sports is: You play to win the game. Hello! You play to win the game.”
And then along came the loser point.
The Prince George Cougars, in their 23rd season in the northern city, won their first B.C. Division pennant on Saturday night, despite losing 2-1 in a shootout to the visiting Kamloops Blazers.
This isn’t to slight the Cougars’ accomplishment. After all, you play the hand you’re dealt — and you play by the rules as they are put in front of you — and that’s exactly what the Cougars did. At the end of a gruelling 72-game regular season, the Cougars stood tallest. There is no taking that away from them and the entire organization should hold its head high.
But regulation time on Saturday came to something of a strange conclusion, and it’s something at which the pooh-bahs who are enamoured with the loser point need to look.
Here’s Ted Clarke of the Prince George Citizen, explaining what happened:
“The game was heading into overtime with 80 seconds to play when Cougars defenceman Brendan Guhle got the puck behind the net and just stood there running time off the clock. Guhle wisely figured it was better to play it safe and lock away the point to clinch than try to go for the win in regulation and run the risk of the Blazers popping one in. He stayed behind the net a full 40 seconds.”
The Cougars went into the game with a two-point edge over the second-place Kelowna Rockets. Prince George, then, needed one point to wrap up first place. With the score 1-1 late in the game, the Cougars knew that the single point was all they needed. 
The loser point, then, has brought us to a point where, as Herm Edwards might say, “There are times when you don't play to win the game.”
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The stage is set for the WHL playoffs to open on Friday and you can bet that teams have fingers crossed in the hopes that the mumps virus doesn’t show up along the trail.
The most recent WHLers to show symptoms — G Jordan Papirny of the Swift Current Broncos and F Mathew Barzal of the Seattle Thunderbirds — may be ready to return to the ice. However, the playoffs also signal the start of the WHL’s secret season, so we may not know how healthy they are until we see the Game 1 lineups.
Papirny hasn’t played since March 7. Barzal, the Western Conference’s top player this season, took part in the warmup on March 10, prior to a game against the visiting Everett Silvertips, but left the ice and hasn’t played since. He has missed five games.
The virus continues to lurk around Western Canadian arenas, too. On Sunday, the NHL’s Calgary Flames revealed that F Michael Ferland has been isolated while they await test results for mumps.
“We’ll probably know in the next day or so,” Brad Treliving, the Flames’ general manager, told Postmedia’s Wes Gilbertson. “When you start not feeling well, start to show some symptoms, then you have to push pause and make sure that gets checked out.
“That’s the key thing — this is precautionary right now. But until such time that we get a diagnosis one way or another, we’re going to take precautions.”
If Ferland tests positive, the Flames will be the third NHL team impacted by mumps this season, along with the Vancouver Canucks and Minnesota Wild.
At least five WHL teams — Seattle, Swift Current, the Brandon Wheat Kings, Medicine Hat Tigers and Victoria Royals — have had players and coaches with symptoms.
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The Vancouver Giants raised $12,102 for the Kidney Foundation of Canada during a recent promotion that involved them wearing sweaters in honour of Don Cherry, and then auctioning them off. . . . Roxanne Hooper of the Langley Advance has more right here, including the news that “an original Don Cherry ensemble, complete with a signed Don Cherry jacket, shirt and tie . . . fetched the largest donation of $1,810.”
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Jimmy Breslin, a legendary New York City newspaperman, had died at the age of 86. No writer has put grit on a newspaper page the way Breslin did. In fact, he was New York City. . . . He was in bed on the night John Lennon was shot. In two hours, Breslin wrote this column right here. . . . If you haven’t read it, it’s also worth your while to chase down the column he wrote after the assassination of JFK. . . . And if you want more of Breslin’s brilliance, click right here and you’ll find three columns that he wrote about the man who now is POTUS. These columns are from 1990, 1989 and 1988.
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THE STAGE IS SET . . . 

EASTERN CONFERENCE
Regina vs. Calgary: Opens with games Friday and Saturday in Regina. . . . Regina won season series, 3-1-0; Calgary was 1-2-1.
Medicine Hat vs. Brandon: Opens in Medicine Hat, Friday and Saturday. . . . Season series went to Medicine Hat, 3-1-0.
Lethbridge vs. Red Deer: Opens in Lethbridge on Saturday and Sunday. . . . Lethbridge was 5-0-1 in season series; Red Deer was 1-4-1.
Moose Jaw vs. Swift Current: They’ll start with games Friday and Saturday in Moose Jaw. . . . The Warriors won the season series, 4-2-0.
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Everett vs. Victoria: They are scheduled to open Friday and Saturday in Everett. . . . The Silvertips were 4-0-0 in the season series; the Royals were 0-3-1.
Prince George vs. Portland: It starts with games Friday and Saturday in Prince George. . . . In the season series, the Cougars were 2-2-0; the Winterhawks were 2-1-1. . . . Interestingly, the WHL website includes dates for only the first four games. Mike Johnston, the Winterhawks’ GM/head coach, told the Portland Tribune that he would prefer a 2-3-2 format. The Cougars want to play 2-2-1-1-1. This one might take some negotiating.
Seattle vs. Tri-City: They’ll get started in Kent, Wash., on Friday and Saturday. . . . Seattle won the season series, 6-2-0.
Kelowna vs. Kamloops: The series begins in Kelowna on Friday and Saturday. . . . Kamloops was 6-3-1 in the season series; the Rockets were 4-6-0.
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SUNDAY’S GAMES:


At Edmonton, F Riley Stadel completed his WHL career with an OT goal that gave the Oil Kings a 5-4
RILEY STADEL
victory over the Red Deer Rebels. . . . The Oil Kings (23-43-6), who won’t be in the playoffs, concluded their season with three straight victories, the last two over Red Deer. In fact, five of Edmonton’s 23 victories came against Red Deer (30-29-13), which finished third in the Central Division. . . . The Oil Kings scored the game’s first two goals and the last three. . . . D Ethan Cap gave the home side a 1-0 lead at 6:54 of the first period and F Tyson Gruninger (3) made it 2-0 at 8:07 of the second. . . . The Rebels scored the next four goals. . . . F Evan Polei (33) got them to within a goal at 9:38. . . . F Brandon Hagel, who had two goals and two assists, tied it, on a PP, at 19:17. . . . Hagel (31) gave his guys the lead at 11:47 of the third period and F Austin Glover (22), who had two assists, stretched the lead at 14:13. . . . The Oil Kings got close when F Trey Fix-Wolansky got No. 24, on a PP, at 18:29, and F Colton Kehler (18) tied it at 18:59. . . . Stadel won it with his seventh goal of the season. . . . Edmonton got three assists from F Davis Koch and two from F Graham Millar. . . . G Patrick Dea stopped 23 shots for Edmonton, with G Riley Lamb turning aside 32 at the other end. . . . Edmonton was 1-3 on the PP; Red Deer was 1-6. . . . Edmonton F Adam Berg got tossed with a charging major and game misconduct at 4:48 of the third period. . . . The Rebels rested D Colton Bobyk and F Michael Spacek. . . . Announced attendance: 18,102.
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At Portland, it was a memorable night for the Yamamoto brothers as they led the Spokane Chiefs to a 7-2 victory over the Winterhawks. . . . The Chiefs (27-33-12) won’t be in the playoffs, so this was the final
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game for F Keanu Yamamoto, 20. Head coach Don Nachbaur, with an obvious feel for the moment, had Keanu on a line with his younger brother, Kailer. . . . Keanu finished with two goals, an assist and a fight, while Kailer helped out with three assists. . . . F Riley Wood had a goal and two assists for the Chiefs. . . . Spokane took a 1-0 lead on F Alex Mowbray’s fourth goal, at 5:57 of the first period. . . . Woods (12) increased that lead, on a PP, at 8:04, after Portland was given a bench minor for having an ineligible player on the bench. F Brett Clayton was listed as a scratch but was dressed. Because he was scratched, he was ineligible. . . . D Henri Jokiharju (9) got Portland on the scoreboard, on a PP, at 11:43, but the Chiefs scored the next four goals. . . . Keanu Yamamoto got two of those, to run his total to 26, with F Eli Zummack (9) and F Hudson Elynuik (29) getting the others. . . . F Riley McKay (3) had Spokane’s other goal, while F Keegan Iverson (26) also scored for Portland. . . . Elynuik and Zummack added an assist each. . . . Jokiharju and Iverson each had an assist for Portland. . . . G Jayden Sittler recorded the victory with 30 saves. . . . Portland G Shane Farkas blocked 27 shots. . . . Spokane was 3-6 on the PP; Portland was 2-4. . . . F Cody Glass, who didn’t play in the final two periods of Saturday’s 4-1 victory over the host Seattle Thunderbirds, was among Portland’s scratches. . . . The Winterhawks (40-28-4) had won their previous three games. They finished in the Western Conference’s second wild-card spot and now will move into a first-round playoff series with the Prince George Cougars, who finished atop the B.C. Division. . . . Announced attendance: 9,114.
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At Kent, Wash., F Alexander True and F Nolan Volcan each scored twice to lead the Seattle
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Thunderbirds to a 6-1 victory over the Vancouver Giants. . . . Seattle (46-20-6) finished second in the U.S. Division. This victory lifted it two points clear of the Prince George Cougars, something that could come into play in deciding home-ice advantage down the playoff trail. . . . The Thunderbirds will open against the Tri-City Americans. . . . The Giants (20-46-6) lost their last three games. They missed the playoffs for a third straight season and the fourth time in five years. . . . True, who finished with 25 goals, gave Seattle a 1-0 lead 30 seconds into the first period. . . . Volcan, who had 16 goals, made it 2-0 at 8:34. . . . F Elijah Brown (4), and F Matthew Wedman (6) also scored for Seattle. . . . F Johnny Wesley scored his 11th goal for Vancouver, at 15:15 of the third period. . . . D Austin Strand and F Keegan Kolesar each had two assists for Seattle. . . . Strand led the WHL in games played, with 74. He opened the season with the Red Deer Rebels, playing 38 games there before being dealt to Seattle, where he played the final 36 games. . . . Seattle G Carl Stankowsi stopped 19 shots. . . . Vancouver starter David Tendeck allowed six goals on 25 shots through two periods. Ryan Kubic played the third, stopping all nine shots he faced. . . . Seattle was 1-4 on the PP; Vancouver was 0-3. . . . Announced attendance: 4,067.
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At Kennewick, Wash., the Tri-City Americans were this close ( ) to a first-round series with the Prince George Cougars when they scored three quick goals and beat the Everett Silvertips, 6-5, in OT. . . . The
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Silvertips twice held third-period leads — 4-2 and 5-3 — and it appeared that the Americans would end up fourth in the U.S. Division and in possession of the Western Conference’s first wild-card spot, meaning a first-round hookup with the Cougars, who won the B.C. Division. . . . However, F Jordan Topping, who had three goals, cut the deficit to one, at 17:44, and D Dylan Coghlan (15) tied it at 18:33, with Topping drawing an assist. . . . Topping, who finished with 28 goals, won it 2:40 into extra time. . . . F Brandson Hein gave Everett a 1-0 lead at 3:07 of the first period, before Tri-City scored twice — F Morgan Geekie (35), on a PP, at 6:12 of the first period, and D Juuso Valimaki (19), at 2:48 of the second. . . . Everett took a 4-2 lead on goals from F Riley Sutter (20), who later left with an apparent injury, at 4:42, Hein (6), at 13:22, and F Brian King (4), at 4:29 of the third period. . . . Topping pulled his side to within a goal at 6:25, only to have Everett F Connor Dewar (14) get it back at 13:48. . . . All that did was set up the Americans for the big finish. . . . Tri-City F Tyler Sandhu had three assists, D Parker Wotherspoon and Coghlan each had two, and Valimaki had one. . . . King and Hein had an assist each for Everett. . . . Tri-City G Rylan Parenteau earned the victory in relief of Evan Sarthou. Parenteau stopped six of seven shots in 17:36, after Sarthou was beaten four times on 23 shots in 44:29. . . . Everett got 39 saves from Mario Petit. . . . Tri-City was 1-3 on the PP; Everett was 0-5. . . . The Silvertips rested D Noah Juulsen, D Lucas Skrumeda, F Dominic Zwerger, F Patrick Bajkov and F Matt Fonteyne. . . . Everett F Devon Skoleski left early with an undisclosed injury. . . . The Silvertips (44-16-12) won the U.S. Division and Western Conference titles and will meet the Victoria Royals, the conference’s second wild-card entry, in the first round. . . . Everett finished with points in its last four games (3-0-1). . . . The Americans (41-28-3) played three games in fewer than 48 hours to close out the regular season. They won all three, twice in OT and once in a shootout. . . .. . . . Announced attendance: 4,190.
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END OF REGULAR SEASON

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Monday, February 13, 2017

Kehler blanks former team . . . Season over for two skaters . . . Fans paint ice in P.G.

G Michael Garnett (Red Deer, Saskatoon, 1999-2002) has signed a contract for the rest of this season with Bern (Switzerland, NL A). This season, with Medveščak Zagreb (Croatia, KHL), he was 3.15 and .903 in 17 games.
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Cole Kehler says he never doubted his abilities, but admits there were times when he wondered if he would get another opportunity to play in the WHL.
Kehler, a 19-year-old from Altona, Man., was selected by the Kamloops Blazers in the sixth round of the
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2012 bantam draft. On Monday afternoon, he recorded his first career shutout, stopping 41 shots to lead the Portland Winterhawks to a 4-0 victory over the host Blazers.
When the 2014-15 WHL season began, Kehler and Connor Ingram were the Blazers goaltenders. When they returned from the Christmas break, Ingram took over the starting job and refused to give it up; in fact, he has played lights out since then.
Kehler, meanwhile, had a poor exhibition season in the autumn of 2015 and ended up going to the BCHL’s Merritt Centennials in order to get some playing time.
“I don’t think I doubted myself,” he said, “but I maybe doubted whether I’d get another opportunity (in the WHL).”
Well, he played well enough in Merritt that the Winterhawks, looking to replace the graduating Adin Hill, who had played in 65 games last season, acquired Kehler from the Blazers for a conditional seventh-round selection in the 2018 bantam draft.
Since then, he has played well enough in Portland — “He’s been good for us,” said GM/head coach Mike Johnston — that the Winterhawks were able to deal Michael Bullion to the Medicine Hat Tigers on Jan. 1 for a seventh-round pick in the 2017 bantam draft. At that point, Portland brought in Shane Farkas, who turned 18 on Jan. 12, to back up Kehler.
“It was pretty fun,” Kehler said after Monday’s game, adding that the first shutout was special “no matter who it’s against.”
Kehler had played in Kamloops earlier this season, losing 4-3 in a shootout on Jan. 20. He struggled with rebound control that night, something that wasn’t a problem yesterday.
Kehler said he has been working on that part of his game — “There’s always something to work on” is how he put it — and admitted that he had been nervous on Jan. 20. That was his first game against his former team and he said he felt “tighter.”
That certainly wasn’t the case on Monday as he earned Portland’s first shutout this season and the team’s first since Oct. 25, 2015, when Hill turned aside 45 shots in a 5-0 victory over the visiting Brandon Wheat Kings.

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F Jake Leschyshyn of the Regina Pats won’t play again this season, thanks to a knee injury suffered during a game against the host Saskatoon Blades on Feb. 3. . . . He is scheduled to undergo surgery on Wednesday to repair a torn ACL. . . . Leschyshyn, 17, had 17 goals and 23 assists in 47 games when he was injured and had played in the Top Prospects Game. . . . He is projected as a possible late first-round selection in the NHL’s 2017 draft. . . . Regina’s acquisition of F Wyatt Sloboshan from the Spokane Chiefs in January now looks rather prescient. Sloboshan, who turned 20 on Jan. 24, had 44 points, including 19 goals, in 66 games with the Blades last season. They dealt him to the Spokane Chiefs in December, but he chose not to return there after the Christmas break. On Jan. 2, the Pats acquired Sloboshan and a third-round pick in the 2017 bantam draft from the Chiefs for F Rykr Cole and F Riley Woods. . . . Sloboshan, who had four goals and 12 assists in 30 games with the Blades, has four goals and four assists in 18 games with Regina. In his past four games, he has had a three-point game and a two-pointer. . . . Greg Harder of the Regina Leader-Post has more on this story right here.
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F Ryan Graham of the Swift Current Broncos has had his WHL career ended by a knee injury. The 20-year-old Graham hasn’t played since Jan. 22. Graham was acquired from the Saskatoon Blades on Nov. 20 for a second-round selection in the 2017 bantam draft and a conditional fourth-rounder in 2018. . . . Graham,  put up 12 goals and 11 assists in 21 games with the Broncos. From Calgary, Graham was a fifth-round pick by the Blades in the 2011 bantam draft. . . . In 269 regular-season games, he had 72 goals and 68 assists. . . . Graham will stay with the Broncos through the end of the season and get his introduction to the coaching game.
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The WHL has suspended two players — they both are TBD — because of incidents during the Kamloops Blazers’ 3-1 victory over the host Victoria Royals on Saturday night. . . . F Jared Dmytriw of the Royals was suspended for a headshot major and game misconduct at 17:19 of the third period. He hit F Deven Sideroff of the Blazers, who is in concussion protocol and was scratched from their game against the visiting Portland Winterhawks on Monday afternoon. . . . Kamloops D Ondrej Vala has been suspended under supplemental discipline. Vala took a cross-checking penalty for a hit on Victoria F Tyler Soy at 16:55 of the first period. Soy didn’t return from the hit.
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Fans in Prince George were invited on to the CN Centre ice surface after the Spokane Chiefs had beaten the Cougars, 4-3, on Monday afternoon. As fans ventured onto the ice, they were given paint brushes and cups of ice, and were then allowed to paint the ice. There were volunteers on the ice to show fans exactly where they would be allowed to paint. For example, stay away from the faceoff circles, goal creases, and the blue and red lines. . . . Andy Beesley, the Cougars’ vice-president of business, told Greg Fry of 250 News in Prince George, that arena staff would be sealing the ice and then building new ice over top of the art work. . . . As part of the painting package, fans taking part were  presented an opportunity to purchase half-price tickets for a game tonight (Tuesday) between the Chiefs and Cougars on the freshly painted ice. “Overall,” Beesley told Fry, “I think the players are going to get a great deal of fun out of playing on something so unique.”
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Coaching

 The SPHL’s Pensacola Ice Flyers have fired head coach Kevin Hasselberg, who was in his first season there. The Ice Flyers were 15-15-5 and in seventh place in the 10-team league when the move was made on Monday. Pensacola is expected to announce a new head coach today (Tuesday). . . . From Brooks, Alta., Hasselberg headed south after spending the previous five seasons as general manager and head coach of the SJHL’s Battlefords North Stars.
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MONDAY’S GAMES:


At Kamloops, G Cole Kehler stopped 41 shots as the Portland Winterhawks beat the Blazers, 4-0. . . . The Winterhawks acquired Kehler from the Blazers on July 19, giving up a conditional seventh-round pick
KEEGAN IVERSON
in the 2018 bantam draft in return. . . . Kehler stopped 18 shots in the third period as the Blazers fought to get back into the game. . . . Portland had surrendered 26 shots in its previous games, going 3-1-1 in the process. . . . D Keoni Texeira’s 10th goal gave the visitors a 1-0 lead at 12:07 of the first period. . . . F Keegan Iverson, playing his first game since Jan. 13, scored No. 15, on a PP, at 4:02 of the second period. . . . F Joachim Blichfeld, who also had an assist, added insurance at 18:52. He’s got goals in three straight games. . . . F Evan Weinger put it away with his 17th, into an empty net, at 19:47 of the third period. . . . F Cody Glass and D Henri Jokiharju each had two assists. . . . Kamloops G Connor Ingram stopped 34 shots in suffering his first regulation-time loss since Nov. 25. He had been 9-0-3 since then. . . . The Winterhawks were 1-1 on the PP; the Blazers were 0-2. . . . Kamloops head coach Don Hay turned 63 on Monday, but didn’t have to celebrate about, at least not in terms of his hockey team. . . . The Blazers were without F Deven Sideroff (concussion protocol), a 31-goal man, and D Ondrej Vala (WHL suspension), who has goals in three of his past four games. . . . The Winterhawks welcomed back Iverson, who slid right into the right wing on their top line alongside Glass and Skyler MacKenzie. . . . Iverson, 20, has 47 points, including 32 assists, in 40 games. . . . Portland won the season series, 3-0-1. The Blazers went 1-3-0. . . . The Winterhawks (31-23-3) remain fourth in the U.S. Division, two points behind the Tri-City Americans and eight ahead of the Spokane Chiefs. Portland holds down the Western Conference’s second wild-card spot, one point behind the Victoria Royals. . . . The Blazers (34-19-6) had points in each of their previous five games (3-0-2). They are second in the B.C. Division, four points behind the Prince George Cougars and four ahead of the Kelowna Rockets. . . . Announced attendance: 5,605, on Faith, Family and Jermaine Loewen Bobblehead Day.
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At Kelowna, the Rockets overcame a 3-2 deficit with four goals in the second-half of the third period to beat the Seattle Thunderbirds, 6-3. . . . Kelowna held an 18-9 edge in shots in the decisive third period,
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after being outshot 16-7 in the second. . . . The Thunderbirds, who have been hit by the injury bug were playing their fifth game in seven days. They went 4-1-0 in that stretch. . . . . They will make it six games in eight nights when they entertain the Red Deer Rebels tonight (Tuesday). . . . F Calvin Thurkauf gave Kelowna a 1-0 lead at 2:16 of the first period, with Seattle equalizing as D Ethan Bear scored No. 22 at 12:08. . . . The home side went back out front at 13:35 as F Leif Mattson got his sixth goal. . . . The Thunderbirds moved into a 3-2 lead on goals from F Keegan Kolesar (17), at 15:44 of the first, and F Ryan Gropp (23), at 5:10 of the second period. . . . Gropp has goals in seven straight games and points in 13 in a row. . . . Thurkauf’s 27th goal tied it at 12:04 of the third period and F Reid Gardiner sent the home boys into the lead with his seventh goal, at 12:28. . . . The Rockets got insurance from F Carsen Twarynski (11), at 17:52, and F Nick Merkley (17), at 18:19. . . . Merkley also had two assists, as did D Devante Stephens. Gardiner added one to his goal. . . . Seattle got two assists from each of F Mathew Barzal and Bear, with Gropp getting one. . . . G Michael Herringer turned aside 31 shots to earn the victory over G Matt Berlin, who stopped 26 shots. . . . Seattle was 1-2 on the PP; Kelowna was 0-3. . . . The Thunderbirds signed F Cody Savey on Monday and he made his WHL debut in this one. Savey, 15, is from Campbell River, B.C. The 6-foot-1, 210-pounder, a list player, has 26 points, including 12 goals, in 26 games with the West Vancouver Academy elite 15s. . . . The Rockets (33-20-4) have won three straight games. They are third in the B.C. Division, four points ahead of the Victoria Royals. . . . The Thunderbirds (35-16-5) had been 11-0-1 in their past 12 games. They lead the U.S. Division by one point over the Everett Silvertips. . . . Announced attendance: 5,563.
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At Prince George, the Spokane Chiefs struck for the game’s last three goals — all via the PP — and beat the Cougars, 4-3. . . . F Hudson Elynuik reached a career high with his 20th goal to get the Chiefs to
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within one, at 3-2, at 5:59 of the second period. He had 19 goals last season. . . . The Chiefs pulled even when F Keanu Yamamoto (22) scored at 1:32 of the third period. . . . F Jaret Anderson-Dolan’s 31st goal, at 11:20 of the third period, snapped the tie. . . . Yamamoto drew assists on Spokane’s second and fourth goals. He has tied his career single-season high in goals — he had 22 last season — and now has 99 career assists. . . . D Tate Olson (7) had given the Cougars a 1-0 lead at 6:30 of the first period. . . . F Kailer Yamamoto, who also had an assist to reach the 200-point mark for his career, tied it with No. 32 at 11:54. . . . The Cougars took a 3-1 lead on first-period goals from F Radovan Bondra (27), at 14:27, and F Jansen Harkins (17), at 16:56. . . . Anderson-Dolan and Elynuik added an assist each, while Bondra and Harkins had one each for the Cougars. . . . The Chiefs got 39 stops from G Dawson Weatherill. . . . G Ty Edmonds stopped 28 for the Cougars. . . . Spokane was 3-10 on the PP; Prince George was 0-5. . . . F Brad Morrison was among Prince George’s scratches, as was D Brendan Guhle (ankle), who hasn’t played side Jan. 29. . . . It’s worth noting that the Chiefs played at home on Wednesday, in Portland on Friday and at home on Saturday, then rode the bus to Prince George for Monday’s game. They play there again tonight (Tuesday), their fifth game in seven days. . . . The Chiefs (24-23-9) have points in four straight (3-0-1). They are eight points out of a playoff spot. . . . The Cougars (37-17-4) had points in their previous two games (1-0-1). They remain atop the B.C. Division, four points ahead of Kamloops. . . . Announced attendance: 4,442.
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At Langley, B.C., the Tri-City Americans broke a 2-2 tie with two late second-period goals and went on to beat the Vancouver Giants, 5-3. . . . F Riley Sawchuk gave the Americans a 3-2 lead with his second
RILEY SAWCHUK
goal, at 15:57, and F Parker AuCoin upped it to 4-2 with No. 18, at 18:56. . . . F Owen Hardy pulled the Giants to within a goal with his fourth at 1:24 of the third period. . . . The Americans got insurance from F Jordan Topping, who scored his 17th at 8:48. . . . Tri-City had taken a 1-0 lead on F Morgan Geekie’s 30th goal, on a PP, at 4:18 of the first period. . . . F Jordan Borstmayer (5) tied it at 10:11, snapping Vancouver’s scoring drought at 158:34. . . . The Americans went back out front on D Dylan Coghlan’s 10th goal, at 18:35. . . . Vancouver tied it when F Brendan Semchuk, who also had an assist, got his eighth goal, on a PP, at 19:11. . . . F Tyler Sandhu had two assists for the winners, with Topping and Geekie adding one each. . . . G Rylan Parenteau earned the victory with 18 saves. . . . At the other end, G Ryan Kubic turned aside 35 shots. . . . Tri-City was 1-3 on the PP; Vancouver was 1-6. . . . Americans F Michael Rasmussen missed his fourth straight game. They hope to have him in the lineup on Wednesday against the visiting Red Deer Rebels. . . . The Americans (32-23-3) snapped a three-game skid. They are third in the U.S. Division, two points ahead of Portland. . . The Giants (18-35-5) have lost three straight. . . . Announced attendance: 4,145.
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TUESDAY’S GAMES (all times local):

Brandon at Moose Jaw, 8 p.m.
Spokane at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Everett at Regina, 7 p.m.
Red Deer vs. Seattle, at Kent, Wash., 7:05 p.m.


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Saturday, November 26, 2016

Blazers waive d-man ... Rebels acquire forward from Blades ... Tigers' win streak at eight

The Kamloops Blazers have placed D Shaun Dosanjh on 20-year-old waivers. The Blazers had to make a move because D Dallas Valentine, 20, returned Friday after missing 19 games with an elbow injury. . . . Dosanjh started the season with the Prince George Cougars, but lost out in the 20-year-old game there, too. . . . In 18 games with the Blazers, he had a goal and three assists. . . . “I thought Shaun was really good for us,” Kamloops head coach Don Hay said. “He’s a real good person. He worked hard here and he really helped our young guys. . . . We’ve had a couple of teams call about him.” . . . The Blazers’ other 20-year-olds are F Collin Shirley and F Matt Revel.
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The Red Deer Rebels have acquired F Cameron Hausinger, 17, from the Saskatoon Blades for two bantam draft picks — a seventh-rounder in 2017 and a fifth-rounder in 2018. . . . Hausinger, from Anchorage, has three assists in 20 games with the Blades this season. In 78 career games, he has six goals and eight assists. . . . Hausinger was a seventh-round selection by the Blades in the 2014 bantam draft. . . . He made his Rebels’ debut last night by scoring two goals against the visiting Kootenay Ice.
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The Prince George Cougars have dropped two defencemen from their roster. Jonas Harkins, who will turn 16 on Dec. 26, will play for the Prince George-based Cariboo Cougars of the B.C. Major Midget Hockey League, while Cole Moberg, 16, will join that league’s Vancouver Northwest Giants. . . . Harkins was a second-round pick in the 2015 bantam draft. He was pointless in one game with Prince George. He already has played 10 games with the major midget team, also going pointless. Harkins is the son of Prince George general manager Todd Harkins and a younger brother of Cougars F Jansen Harkins. . . . Moberg had one goal in three games with Prince George. Earlier in the season, he had five goals and two assists in eight games with the Giants. . . . The Cougars now are carrying 24 players, including 15 forwards and seven defencemen.
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FRIDAY’S GAMES:

At Calgary, the Moose Jaw Warriors built up a 4-1 second-period lead and hung on to beat the Hitmen, 5-
JAYDEN HALBGEWACHS
4. . . . D Vladislav Yeryomenko scored his first goal, on a PP, to give Calgary a 1-0 lead at 8:22 of the first period. . . . The Warriors took control with four goals in 6:53 in the middle part of the second period. . . . F Brayden Burke (5) scored his first goal with Moose Jaw since being acquired from the Lethbridge Hurricanes at 5:37. F Nikita Popugaev got his 18th goal at 8:39. F Brett Howden, back after a 10-game absence, scored his 10th at 10:06. F Jayden Halbgewachs made it 4-1 at 12:20. . . . Calgary F Carsen Twarynski (7) scored shorthanded, at 17:34 to cut the deficit to 4-2. . . . Halbgewachs, who has 17 goals, counted again at 1:46 of the third. . . . The Hitmen made it a one-goal game when F Jakob Stukel (6), on a PP, at 9:35 and F Andrew Fyten (2), at 12:44, found the range. . . . Moose Jaw got three assists from F Tanner Jeannot, while Howden and F Noah Gregor had two apiece. Popugaev, Burke and Halbgewachs added one each. . . . F Jordy Stallard had two assists for Calgary, with Stukel and Fyten getting one each. . . . G Brody Willms stopped 36 shots for the Warriors, while Calgary’s Cody Porter turned aside 16. . . . The Hitmen were 2-3 on the PP; the Warriors were 0-2. . . . The Warriors now are 14-5-4, while Calgary (8-11-2) has lost two in a row. . . . Announced attendance: 9,945, the largest crowd for the Hitmen this season.
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At Everett, F Matt Fonteyne broke a 2-2 tie with a PP goal at 13:51 of the second period and the
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Silvertips went on to a 5-2 victory over the Edmonton Oil Kings. . . . F Connor Dewar (2) gave Everett a 1-0 lead with a shorthanded goal at 4:35 of the first period and D Lucas Skrumeda (2) made it 2-0 at 8:46. . . . The Oil Kings pulled even on goals from F Lane Bauer, his 13th, at 6:25 of the second period and F Branden Klatt (3), on a PP, at 11:34. . . . F Davis Koch assisted on both Edmonton goals. . . . Fonteyne’s sixth goal stood up as the winner. . . . Everett got insurance from F Orrin Centazzo (3) at 14:25 of the second and F Bradly Goethals (1), on a PP, at 6:21 of the third period. . . . D Noah Juulsen and F Brian King each had two assists for the winners. . . . G Mario Petit blocked 23 shots for Everett, while G Patrick Dea stopped 22 for Edmonton. . . . Everett was 2-6 on the PP; Edmonton was 1-7. . . . The Silvertips (17-3-4) have won two in a row. . . . The Oil Kings (10-13-2) have lost three in a row. . . . Everett head coach Kevin Constantine was given the ol’ heave-ho at 17:51 of the third period. Ch-ch-ching! . . . Announced attendance: 4,178.
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At Kamloops, F Adam Brooks had a goal and two assists but it was the goaltenders who stole the show as the Regina Pats beat the Blazers, 3-0. . . . G Tyler Brown earned the shutout with 37 saves. Brown,
TYLER BROWN
who is 10-2-2 this season, has one shutout this season and three in his career. He gave up three goals in the first period of a 5-2 loss to the Cougars in Prince George on Tuesday — the other two goals were empty-netters — so has gone five periods without allowing a score. . . . At the other end, Connor Ingram blocked 32 shots. Fred Brathwaite, Hockey Canada’s goaltending consultant, was in the house watching Ingram again. . . . “Our goaltender was good,” Kamloops head coach Don Hay said. “Their’s was really good.” . . . Regina F Austin Wagner used his speed to get to a loose puck and ended up scoring the first goal, his 11th, at 17:05 of the second period. His shot from the high slot through traffic got through without Ingram seeing it. . . . Wagner was the best skater on the ice and would have had at least three goals if not for Ingram’s catching mitt. . . . Brooks (9) and D Sergey Zborovskiy (3) later scored empty-net goals. . . . Brooks, the WHL’s reigning scoring champion, has at least one point in the 16 games in which he has played this season. He has 36 points, including 27 assists. . . . Regina D Chad Harrison had his 16-game point streak come to an end. . . . FYI: F Jeremy Bracco of the OHL’s Kitchener Rangers is riding a 21-game point streak. . . . Regina was 0-1 on the PP; Kamloops was 0-8. . . . F Sam Steel, the WHL’s leading scorer, was among Regina’s scratches. He suffered a shoulder injury during a 5-2 loss to the Cougars in Prince George on Tuesday night. That means that Steel’s appearance in Kamloops as a 16-year-old two seasons ago is likely to have been his only game there. A first-round selection by the Anaheim Ducks in the NHL’s 2016 draft, you can bet he won’t be back in the WHL for his 20-year-old season (2018-19), which is when the Pats next would visit Kamloops. . . . The Blazers had D Dallas Valentine, 20, back after he missed 19 games with an elbow injury. . . . The Pats (17-2-3) are 2-2-0 in a B.C. Division tour that concludes tonight against the Kelowna Rockets. . . . The Blazers (14-12-1) have lost two in a row. . . . Announced attendance: 3,653.
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At Lethbridge, F Jordy Bellerive broke a 3-3 tie at 18:27 of the third period to give the Hurricanes a 4-3
JORDY BELLERIVE
victory over the Swift Current Broncos. . . . The Hurricanes actually led 3-1 before the game was 13 minutes old. . . . F Colton Kroeker (3) and F Ryley Lindgren (10) scored for the Hurricanes at 2:42 and 5:38 of the first period, with F Tyler Steenbergen getting his 19th for the Broncos at 10:01. . . . F Egor Babenko (6) restored the home team’s two-goal lead at 12:30. . . . Swift Current F Ryan Graham pulled his guys even with goals at 19:30 of the first and 4:21 of the second. . . . He’s got five goals and four assists in three games with Swift Current since being acquired from the Saskatoon Blades. . . . Bellerive won it with his sixth goal. . . . Lethbridge got two assists from Kord Pankewicz, a defenceman by trade who played up front in this one, while Bellerive and Lindgren each had one. . . . Lethbridge G Stuart Skinner made 22 saves. . . . Broncos starter Travis Child was beaten three times on 18 shots in 12:30. Taz Burman came on in relief and stopped 24 of 25. That included stopping Babenko on a second-period penalty shot. . . . The Broncos were 2-4 on the PP; the Hurricanes were 1-7. . . . Lethbridge (10-11-3) has won three in a row. . . . The Broncos (13-8-6) had points in their previous three games (2-0-1). . . . Announced attendance: 3,389.
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At Portland, F Skyler McKenzie scored twice to help the Winterhawks to a 4-2 victory over the Victoria
SKYLER McKENZIE
Royals. . . . McKenzie has 31 points, including 15 goals, in 25 games. In his first two seasons, he totalled 41 points, including 12 goals, in 133 games. . . . McKenzie broke a 1-1 tie with his first goal, at 18:49 of the first period, then added an empty-netter 1t 19:59 of the third. . . . F Matt Phillips scored his 16th goal of the season for the Royals. . . . F Colton Veloso (6) gave Portland a 3-1 edge with a PP goal 59 seconds into the second period. . . . The Royals got to within one when F Regan Nagy (6) got a PP marker at 13:40 of the third. . . . F Keegan Iverson had two assists for Portland. He has 30 points, including 20 assists, in 23 games. Last season, he finished with 29 points, 18 of them assists, in 55 games. . . . F Spencer Gerth, acquired by Victoria from the Everett Silvertips earlier in the week, made his Royals debut and picked up an assist. . . . G Cole Kehler stopped 33 shots to earn the victory. . . . Victoria got 39 saves from Griffen Outhouse. . . . Victoria was 1-6 on the PP; Portland was 1-7. . . . The Winterhawks lost D Keoni Teixeira at 1:47 of the third period with a major for checking to the head and a game misconduct. . . . The Winterhawks (12-12-1) are 4-0-1 in their past five games. . . . The Royals now are 14-10-2. . . . Announced attendance: 5,305.
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At Prince Albert, F Max Gerlach scored once and added two assists to help the Medicine Hat Tigers to a
MAX GERLACH
7-1 victory over the Raiders. . . . The Tigers (19-5-1) have won eight in a row. . . . The Raiders (5-18-1) have dropped seven straight. . . . The Raiders scored the game’s first three goals, taking control as F Mark Rassell (15) made it 2-0 while shorthanded 25 seconds into the second period, and then going ahead 3-0 on a PP goal from F Steve Owre (6) at 4:00. . . . Gerlach has 15 goals. . . . F Matt Bradley added a goal (14) and an assist for the visitors, while D David Quenneville had two assists. . . . G Duncan McGovern turned aside 22 shots for the Tigers, losing his shutout bid to F Cole Fonstad at 4:30 of the second period. . . . G Nic Sanders started for the Raiders and gave up five goals on 17 shots. Ian Scott played the final 24:54, stopping 12 of 14. . . . Medicine Hat was 2-3 on the PP; Prince Albert was 0-4. . . . Announced attendance: 2,289.
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At Red Deer, F Brandon Hagel scored three teams as the Rebels dumped the Kootenay Ice, 9-2. . . . The
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Ice had beaten the visiting Rebels 6-5 in a shootout on Wednesday night. . . . Hagel has 12 goals. He opened the scoring at 11:49 of the first period, made it 3-0 at 7:49 of the second and completed the hat trick at 9:01 of the third. . . . F Cam Hausinger, acquired earlier in the day by the Rebels from the Saskatoon Blades, scored his first two goals of the season. . . . D Colton Bobyk and F Michael Spacek each had two assists for Red Deer, with D Jared Freadrich and F Jordan Roy each picking up a goal and an assist. Each has two goals this season. . . . G Lasse Petersen stopped 27 shots for the winners. . . . Kootenay starter Payton Lee gave up eight goals on 42 shots. Jakob Walter came on in relief to stop seven of eight. . . . Red Deer was 1-6 on the PP; Kootenay was 0-3. . . . The Rebels (12-10-4) are 2-0-1 in their last three games. . . . The Ice now is 5-14-6. . . . The Rebels were without F Evan Polei, who served a one-game suspension after taking a charging major on Wednesday in Cranbrook. . . . Announced attendance: 4,500.
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At Saskatoon, F Braylon Shmyr scored two goals as the Blades skated to a 3-2 victory over his former
BRAYLON SHMYR
club, the Brandon Wheat Kings. . . . Shmyr was dealt to the Blades on Jan. 4, along with D Colton Waltz, for D Mitchell Wheaton, D Schael Higson and a second-round pick in the 2017 bantam draft. . . . Shmyr, who has nine goals, gave Saskatoon a 1-0 lead just 12 seconds into the game. . . . F Jesse Shynkaruk upped the lead to 2-0 with his seventh goal at 7:10 of the second period. . . . The Wheat Kings tied it on second-period goals from F Tyler Coulter (10) at 7:43 and D Schael Higson (2) at 16:49. . . . The game appeared headed to OT when Shmyr won it at 19:18 of the third period. . . . Shynkaruk assisted on the winner. . . . G Logan Flodell earned the victory with a 31-save performance. . . . Brandon G Logan Thompson turned aside 25 shots. . . . Brandon was 0-1 on the PP; Saskatoon was 0-2. . . . The Blades (10-15-1) had lost their previous four games. . . . The Wheat Kings (12-9-3), who beat the visiting Blades twice last weekend, have lost two in a row. . . . The Wheat Kings swept a doubleheader from the visiting Blades last weekend — 8-1 and 6-3. . . . Announced attendance: 3,929.
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At Spokane, F Jaret Anderson-Dolan and F Hudson Elynuik each scored three goals and F Keanu
KEANU YAMAMOTO
Yamamoto drew six assists to help the Chiefs to a 10-1 victory over the Vancouver Giants. . . . The record for most assists in one game *(8) was set by F Brian Sakic of the Tri-City Americans on Oct. 3, 1990, in a 19-3 victory over the host Seattle Thunderbirds. . . . Elynuik also had two assists, while Anderson-Dolan had one. . . . Elynuik, who has nine goals, gave Spokane a 1-0 lead at 5:08 of the first period. . . . Vancouver F Ty Ronning (8) tied the score at 7:42. . . . F Hayden Ostir scored his third goal at 15:45, giving Spokane a 2-1 lead and the Chiefs were off to the races. . . . D Tyson Helgesen and D Dalton Hamaliuk had two assists each for Spokane. . . . The Chiefs remain without injured F Kailer Yamamoto. . . . G Jayden Sittler made 22 saves for Spokane. . . . Vancouver starter David Tendeck allowed four goals on 12 shots in 22:52. Ryan Kubic came on to stop 11 of 17. . . . Spokane was 5-7 on the PP; Vancouver was 0-3. . . . The Chiefs (10-8-5) have won two in a row. . . . The Giants (10-16-0) have lost four straight. . . . Announced attendance: 4,867.
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At Kennewick, Wash., F Mathew Barzal drew three assists as the Seattle Thunderbirds beat the host Tri-
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City Americans, 5-2. . . . The Thunderbirds took a 2-0 first-period lead on goals from F Nolan Volcan (10) just 43 seconds in and F Sami Moilanen (6) at 19:00. . . . D Dylan Coghlan (10) pulled the Americans to within a goal at 1:14 of the second period, but Seattle got that one back just 1:23 later when D Ethan Bear scored his sixth goal. . . . Tri-City D Juuso Valimaki’s 10th goal, at 10:48, made it a one-goal game again. . . . Seattle put it away with two third-period goals, from F Keegan Kolesar, who got his first goal at 12;32, and F Ryan Gropp, who scored his fourth, on a PP, at 16:57. . . . Seattle got two assists from F Scott Eansor, while Bear and Volcan each had one. . . . Tri-City F Tyler Sandhu had an assist to run his point streak to 11 games. . . . G Matt Berlin got the victory with 23 saves. . . . G Evan Sarthou stopped 26 shots for the Americans. . . . Each team was 1-4 on the PP. . . . Seattle (12-9-2) is third in the U.S. Division, six points behind the Americans with three games in hand. . . . The Americans (15-9-2) had points in their previous two games (1-0-1). . . . Announced attendance: 3,691.
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SATURDAY’S GAMES (all times local):

Lethbridge at Calgary, 2 p.m.
Prince George at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Regina at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Swift Current vs. Kootenay, at Cranbrook, B.C., 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.
Victoria vs. Seattle, at Kent, Wash., 7:05 p.m.
Edmonton at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Vancouver vs. Tri-City, at Kennewick, Wash., 7:05 p.m.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Blazers, Chiefs sign prospects







 F David Hruška (Red Deer, 1995-96) has signed a one-year contract with Orli Znojmo (Czech Republic, Erste Bank Liga). This season, in 52 games with Chomutov (Czech Republic, Extraliga), he led the team in goals (18),  assists (14) and points (32). . . .
D Jesse Dudas (Lethbridge, Prince George, Swift Current, Regina, 2003-09) has signed a one-year contract with Miskolci Jegesmedvék (Hungary, MOL Liga). This season, Dudas played for the Wichita Thunder (CHL), putting up 38 points, including 14 goals, in 54 games.
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D Nolan Kneen, the third overall selection in the 2014 WHL bantam draft, has signed with the Kamloops Blazers. Kneen, from North Vancouver, played with the bantam AAA North Shore Winter Club Winterhawks, putting up 60 points, including 22 goals, in 69 games. He is expected to play next season with the major midget Okanagan Rockets, who are based in Kelowna.
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The Spokane Chiefs have signed 1998-born F Kailer Yamamoto, the younger brother of Keanu, a forward who just completed his freshman season. According to a Chiefs’ news release, “They will become the first pair of Spokane-native siblings to play for the local club at the same time.” . . . Kailer was a fifth-round pick in the 2013 bantam draft. He had 40 points, 17 of them goals, in 34 games with the Los Angeles Jr. Kings this season. . . . Keanu finished his freshman season with 25 points, including 11 goals, in 57 games, but 15 of those points came in the final two months of the season.
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THE COACHING GAME:
Kevin Flather is the new head coach of the junior B Port Moody Panthers of the Pacific Junior Hockey League. He spent this season as the general manager and head coach of the junior B Grand Forks Border Bruins of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League. Flather actually took over the Bruins in October and guided them to their best record in nine seasons. Flather, a 27-year-old native of Surrey, B.C., owns and operates Precision Hockey Development. . . . Over time, Flather also has worked closely with Ron Johnson, who has signed on with the Panthers as their director of hockey development. Johnson is the founder, owner and technical director of Elite Hockey Shooters, focusing primarily on skill mechanics and offensive tactics for hockey players of all ages and levels. Johnson, 56, was a long-time coach, but chose to retire in 2013 after 38 years of it. . . . The Panthers relocated from Port Coquitlam in 2006. . . . The Panthers went 10-30-2-2 this season and finished last in the Harold Brittain Conference for a second straight season.
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Kevin Higo is the new head coach of the AJHL’s Grande Prairie Storm. He spent this season coaching the Elite 15 team at the Edge School in Calgary. But he has coaching experience in the AJHL with the Fort McMurray Oil Barons, Crowsnest Pass Timberwolves and Brook Bandits. He also has worked as an assistant coach with the WHL‘s Moose Jaw Warriors. . . . With the Storm, Higo takes over from Matt Hughes, who was fired on May 2.
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Tyson Ramsey is the new head coach of the midget AAA Brandon Wheat Kings. He takes over from Ken Schneider, who stepped aside after this season. Ramsey had been an assistant coach on Schneider’s staff.
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MEMORIAL CUP
(at London, Ont., all times Eastern)
(all games televised by Sportsnet)
Friday: Val-d’Or vs. London, 7 p.m.
Saturday: Guelph vs. Edmonton, 4 p.m.
Sunday: London vs. Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Monday: Guelph vs. Val-d’Or, 7 p.m.
Tuesday: Edmonton vs. Val-d’Or, 7 p.m.
Wednesday: London vs. Guelph, 7 p.m.
Thursday, May 22: Tiebreaker, if necessary, 7 p.m.
Friday, May 23: Semifinal, 7 p.m.
Saturday, May 24: No game scheduled.
Sunday, May 25: Final, TBA.


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