Sunday . . . and Saturday leftovers

Marc Weber of the Vancouver Province is reporting that F Jadon Potter, the Chilliwack Bruins’ leading scorer, “will spend the next two months in a solid neck brace.” Potter was injured Friday night during a 2-0 loss to the visiting Tri-City Americans. Potter dove in an attempt to make a defensive lay and ended up sliding hard into the end boards. The game was delayed about 30 minutes while medical staff tended to Potter on the ice. He was placed on a stretcher and taken by ambulance to Chilliwack General Hospital, before being transferred to Vancouver General Hospital at about 1 a.m. He had an MRI there, was fitted with a brace and released from hospital on Saturday night. The Bruins have yet to release an injury update. “It’s a neck injury, so obviously it’s serious,” Bruins GM Darrell May told Weber. “But, considering the severity of the incident, this is a good outcome. He’ll have to wear a neck brace for six to eight weeks and he’ll have more tests during that time.”
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JUST NOTES: Chet Pickard became the winningest goaltender in Tri-City Americans history on Friday when he blanked the Bruins 2-0 in Chilliwack. That was his 84th regular-season victory, one more than Carey Price. . . . Tri-City F Kruise Reddick scored his first WHL hat trick on Saturday as the Americans whipped the host Everett Silvertips, 7-2. That halted Everett’s four-game winning streak. Tri-City scored the game’s last five goals. . . . In Saskatoon on Saturday, Brandon F Scott Glennie scored three times, getting the third one 12 seconds into OT, as the Wheat Kings dumped the Blades, 5-4. Glennie has two streaks going – he has points in six straight and goals in four straight. . . . Brandon, which picked up five of a possible six points in its last three games, will play eight of its next nine games on the road. . . . Seattle LW Prab Rai turned 19 on Saturday and celebrated by scoring twice and setting up three other goals as the Thunderbirds dumped the visiting Portland Winter Hawks, 6-1. Rai has a team-high 29 points, including 16 goals. . . . The WHL didn’t schedule any games on Sunday, giving everyone the opportunity to watch the Grey Cup game, the Canadian Football League’s championship final. And the WHL also has just one midweek game scheduled – Everett at Tri-City on Wednesday – as it makes way for the ADT Canada-Russia Challenge games. A touring Russian side will play a team of WHL players on Wednesday in Swift Current and on Thursday in Prince Albert. . . . G Adam Brown, 17, picked up two weekend victories as the Kelowna Rockets swept a doubleheader from the Cougars in Prince George. Brown went the distance in both games after veteran G Kris Lazaruk, 20, suffered a knee injury in the Friday morning skate. The Rockets dressed a couple of Prince George area goaltenders – Marcus Beasley and Tim Zwiers – as backups to Brown.