Wednesday . . .

The CHL Mosaik MasterCard top 10, as voted on by a panel of NHL scouts (showing team, record, ranking and number of weeks in rankings):
1. Windsor Spitfires (28-4-0-1) 2 14
2. Calgary Hitmen (29-5-1-1) 3 9
3. Drummondville Voltigeurs (27-4-0-2) 6 10
4. Vancouver Giants (27-2-0-3) 5 12
5. Shawinigan Cataractes (28-7-0-0) 1 11
6. London Knights (24-7-0-1) 7 11
7. Moncton Wildcats (25-3-2-2) 4 13
8. Tri-City Americans (23-8-0-2) 8 4
9. Brampton Battalion (22-10-1-0) 10 6
10. Belleville Bulls (22-10-2-2) — 6
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F Scott Glennie and F Brayden Schenn scored in the circus to give the host Brandon Wheat Kings a 4-3 victory over the Lethbridge Hurricanes. F Matt Lowry forced OT for Brandon with a PP goal at 17:46 of the third period. . . . Brandon held a 41-27 edge in shots, with Lethbridge G Juha Metsola stopping 38 shots through OT. . . . The game was televised on Shaw and Curt Keilback, former voice of the NHL’s Winnipeg Jets and Phoenix Coyotes, called the play. He now is a Winnipeg realtor. . . . G Nathan Lieuwen recorded his third shutout of the season as the host Kootenay Ice dumped the Medicine Hat Tigers, 3-0. . . . Medicine Hat G Ryan Holfeld stopped 48 shots for the Tigers. . . .
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F Kyle Bortis and F Brandon Kozun had a goal and two assists apiece to lead the Calgary Hitmen to an 8-4 victory over the Raiders in Prince Albert. . . . The Hitmen go into the break at 31-5-1-1. . . . F Shane McColgan, the 11th pick in the 2008 bantam draft, scored his first WHL goal in his second and it stood up as the winner as the Kelowna Rockets beat the Oil Kings 3-0 in Edmonton. McColgan scored 37 seconds into the first period. . . . G Kris Lazaruk, an Edmonton native, stopped 31 shots for his third shutout of the season and sixth of his career. . . . Kelowna, which had lost three in a row, nursed a 1-0 lead late into the third period when F Cody Almond and F Dylan Hood scored empty-netters. . . . Kelowna D Tyson Barrie (concussion) missed his third straight game.
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In Moose Jaw, LW Adam Chorneyko scored three times and set up another to help the Saskatoon Blades to a 7-3 victory. The Blades (25-10-2-0-) go into the break with a 10-point lead atop the East Division. . . . Moose Jaw F Tomas Karpov scored the Teddy Bear goal late in the first period but his side was down 3-0 at that point. . . . In Chilliwack, G Mark Guggenberger stopped 35 shots as the Swift Current Broncos dumped the Bruins, 3-0. It was Guggenberger’s second shutout of the season and sixth of the season. . . . These teams have met three times since the Bruins came into the league — the Broncos have shut them out three times, with Guggenberger posting a 2-0 shutout at home last season. . . . Inclement weather kept the Chilliwack crowd to 3,353, the smallest this season. . . . The Bruins held a 15-3 edge in shots after one period and finished with a 35-21 edge. . . . The Broncos went 4-1 in the B.C. Division, the loss an 8-1 thrashing at the hands of the Giants in Vancouver on Tuesday. . . . The Bruins go into the break having lost 10 of 11. . . .
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F Tyler Halliday ended up with the winning goal as the host Prince George Cougars edged the Kamloops Blazers, 3-2. Halliday, who is from Kamloops, was credited with an empty net goal at 19:22 of the third period after Kamloops C C.J. Stretch intentionally knocked the net off its moorings. Halliday’s goal gave the Cougars a 3-1 lead; the Blazers got a goal from Shayne Wiebe 17 seconds later. . . . The Cougars are eighth in the Western Conference, two points behind the Seattle Thunderbirds and three behind the Blazers, who have lost six of their last seven.