Rankin fills hat as Hitmen ice Ice; Tigers up next . . . Shaw TV off to Kelowna . . . No KABOOM for Nitros

MONDAY’S GAME:

In Calgary, F Connor Rankin scored three first-period goals and the Hitmen went on to a 6-2 victory over the Kootenay Ice. . . . When is the last time you were at a hockey game and caps were being thrown on the ice in the first period? . . . The Hitmen won the series 4-3 and will meet the Medicine Hat Tigers in the second round. That series will open in Medicine Hat on Friday, with Games 2 and 3 in Calgary on Sunday and Monday. . . . The Saddledome is booked Thursday (Los Angeles Kings at Flames), Friday (Edmonton Rush at Calgary Roughnecks, lacrosse) and Saturday (Eric Church, The Outsiders World Tour). . . . The Tigers were 3-2-1 in the season series; the Hitmen were 3-3-0. . . . Rankin scored seven times in this series, including a pair of three-goal games. . . . Last night, the 20-year-old from North Vancouver scored at 1:12, 17:34 (on a PP) and 19:04. . . . F Adam Tambellini, who had a WHL-leading 15 points in the series, assisted on the last two of Rankin’s goals. . . . Tambellini also had seven goals in the series. He and Rankin share the franchise record for goals in one playoff series with F Pavel Brendl and F Brad Moran. . . . Calgary held a 10-1 edge in shots in the first period. That was the fewest shots in one playoff period for the Ice in franchise history. . . . With the Hitmen leading 4-0 halfway through the second period, the shots were 18-2. . . . Calgary finished the game with a 35-13 edge. . . . Calgary G Mack Shields stopped 11 shots. . . . Calgary was without G Brendan Burke, who left in the second period of Game 6 with an undisclosed injury. . . . G Kyle Dumba, the 17-year-old brother of former WHL D Mathew Dumba, was Calgary’s backup last night. . . . Ice G Wyatt Hoflin stopped 29 shots. Hoflin appeared in 74 of the Ice’s 79 regular-season and playoff games this season. . . . Calgary F Jake Virtanen and F Elliott Peterson each had two assists, while F Kenton Helgesen had his fifth goal and an assist and F Radel Fazleev scored his third goal and added an assist. . . . F Sam Reinhart scored his sixth goal in what surely was his last WHL game. He almost certainly will be with the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres next season. . . . Calgary was 1-for-3 on the PP; Kootenay was 0-for-2. . . . The Hitmen are 5-5 in Game 7s in franchise history, including 3-0 against the Ice. . . . Kootenay now is 1-6 in Game 7s. . . . Attendance was 7,191.
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NO KABOOM! . . . The Campbell Storm scored a 6-5 victory over the Kimberley Dynamiters in the final of the Cyclone Taylor Cup, B.C.’s junior B championship, in Mission on Monday afternoon. . . . The Storm moves on to the Keystone Cup in Cold Lake, Alta., from April 16 through 19. . . . Taylor Rocca of the Cranbrook Daily Townsman has a game story right here.
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Merle Haggard turned 78 on Monday, so there was no better time for Rolling Stone to present the “12 Most Badass Merle Haggard Prison Songs.” . . . Check it out right here.
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A Monday evening tweet from Andy Beesley, the Prince George Cougars’ vice-president, business: “Here's a fun fact. The PG Cougars 50/50 handed out an incredible $194,000+ in cash to lucky winners this season. That's awesome!” . . .
D Haydn Fleury of the Red Deer Rebels will join the Charlotte Checkers, the AHL affiliate of the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes. Fleury, who was the seventh overall selection in the NHL’s 2014 draft, had 28 points, including six goals, in 63 games with the Rebels this season. Fleury turns 18 on July 8. He has played three full seasons with Red Deer. . . .
Shaw TV was in Calgary for Game 7 between the Hitmen and Kootenay Ice last night. Its crew will be in Kelowna for Games 1 and 2 between the Rockets and Victoria Royals on Friday and Saturday nights.
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“Today, I am 37 years old and unable to play professional hockey because of the symptoms I experience from the multiple blows to the head I suffered while on the ice,” writes former NHL enforcer Dan LaCouture in Monday‘s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “But the inability to play hockey professionally is the least of my worries. I have debilitating headaches, nausea and motion sickness every day. I am always irritable. And with recent studies showing the shattering illnesses linked to traumatic brain injury, along with the recent news of National Hockey League legend Stan Mikita’s unfortunate battle with dementia, I fear worse symptoms are yet to come.”
LaCouture’s complete piece is right here.
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Driving to Seattle right now. Not sure if people are honking because they like our new bus/us , or they're just upset with our bus driver..💁
— Chase De Leo (@Dels9) April 6, 2015

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Hitting right notes in Prince George . . . Two more players leave teams . . . Another shutout for Whistle

THE MUSIC MAN:

CURTIS ABRIEL

Recently, the Moose Jaw Warriors' Twitter account (@MJWARRIORS) was playing a game of "Remember When . . ." At one point, the tweet was: “We had the actual organ in the Civic Centre #glorydays #livemusic #intune.”
Which brings us to Prince George’s CN Centre, the home of the Cougars who, if you aren't aware, are under new ownership this season.
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The Cougars’ new owners are hoping for a revival in their community this season.
And like the hosts to a good revival meeting, they see nothing wrong with a little organ music at their games.
It used to be that an organist was almost the entire stoppage-time
entertainment at a lot of hockey games. However, with the growth of computers, more and more teams have gone to pre-packaged music and the organs got squeezed out.
In Prince George, the Cougars have done something to reverse that. Yes, a keyboardist has become a big part of their game presentation.
"Apart from our relatively good improvements on the ice, the thing we are most happy about is that an exciting, electric atmosphere has once again returned to the CN Centre, and the fans are having an extremely good time attending our games," Andy Beesley, the Cougars' vice-president business, told Taking Note via email. "We’ve made some dramatic changes to the ‘fan experience’, including our incredible pre-game light/laser show, and, of course, our music upgrades."
The Cougars have hired Curtis Abriel as their music director. A resident of Prince George who is from Kitimat, Abriel is a well-known figure on the city's music scene.
With the Cougars, Abriel controls all music and sound effects, and also plays a live keyboard which, according to Beesley, is "mostly organ" and is used a lot throughout a game.
"Curtis has a natural ability to read the crowd, and get them clapping and cheering with various musical punctuations to mimic the mood of the crowd during stoppages in play," Beesley added. "Curtis has made a major contribution to the atmosphere inside the CN Centre . . . the power of a live keyboard with a skilled musician cannot be overstated."
How popular has the addition of Abriel proven to be?
The Cougars, who are at home to the Kamloops Blazers on Saturday (7 p.m.) and Sunday (2 p.m.), now have added a camera inside the video control room where Abriel operates from "so we can show live shots of him on the video scoreboard from time to time," Beesley writes.
The Cougars are using a lot of live music on game nights. On opening night, they had a local band, Out of Alba, on the roof of the CN Centre to welcome fans to the game; Out of Alba also played inside during 90-second timeouts during the game.
During a recent Saturday game, the Cougars had a live DJ -- DJ Ant -- doing his thing during stoppages in play and intermissions. Beesley reports that the DJ was "set up in the stands and was a huge hit."
In fact, DJ Ant was so popular, according to Beesley, "that we have arranged to have him set up in the stands again and play ALL the music for an upcoming game, with Curtis also playing live organ from time to time."
The Cougars, Beesley reports, also plan to include more live musicians during future games, including, yes, a trumpet player.
CHARGE!
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MORE PLAYER DEPARTURES:

Two more players have chosen to leave their WHL teams.
D Connor Hobbs, 17, has asked to be traded and has left the Medicine Hat Tigers, while D Tyler Green, 19, has decided to leave the Moose Jaw Warriors.
Hobbs, from Saskatoon, had two assists in five games with Canada at last summer's Ivan Hlinka Memorial tournament. He had a goal and an assist in 12 games with the Tigers this season. Last season, he had three points, including a goal, in 10 games. He had been one of eight defencemen on the Tigers' roster.
Hobbs was a fourth-round pick by the Prince Albert Raiders in the 2012 bantam draft. The Tigers acquired Hobbs on Jan. 1, 2013. Along with Hobbs, they got D Zach Hodder, then 19, F Logan McVeigh, 18, and a second-round pick in the 2013 bantam draft for D Dylan Busenius, 19, F Jayden Hart, 18, and a sixth-round pick in the 2014 draft.
Green, meanwhile, apparently told the Warriors that he wants to get on with his education.
“He contacted us (Wednesday) and asked to meet with Tim (Hunter) and I,” Alan Millar, the Warriors' general manager, told Katie Brickman of the Moose Jaw Times-Herald. “He just explained to us that he has lost the passion for the game and didn’t feel like he wanted to play any longer.”
Green, 19, is from Port Coquitlam, B.C. He was a second-round selection by the Seattle Thunderbirds in the 2010 bantam draft. Seattle dealt him to the Brandon Wheat Kings and they, in turn, traded him to Moose Jaw on Oct. 5 for a fifth-round pick in the 2015 bantam draft.
The Warriors acquired the 6-foot-7, 220-pound Green after D Austin Adam, a 6-foot-5, 200-pounder, suffered a shoulder injury. Adam is back skating but isn't expected to play for a couple of weeks.
Green's departure leaves the Warriors with six defencemen.
Green is at least the third player to walk away from the Warriors this season. Veteran forwards Brandon Potomak, 19, and Scott Cooke, 20, left after having played just two games each.
On Wednesday, the Kootenay Ice and D Jordan Steenbergen, 18, parted company by mutual agreement. He was pointless in 12 games this season.
The Prince Albert Raiders had two players -- F Dakota Conroy and F Colton McCarthy -- leave the club earlier this month. Conroy, 20, had two points in 10 games, while McCarthy, 18, was pointless in eight games.
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G Jared Rathjen, who has yet to play this season, is joining the Prince George Cougars. Rathjen, 20, is from Prince George. He was placed on waivers by the Medicine Hat Tigers. . . . Rathjen opened training camp with the Tigers and got into two exhibition games. However, he was sidelined when a health issue was discovered. He recently received medical clearance to return to action but has yet to play, although he has been practising with the Tigers. . . . Rathjen was acquired by the Tigers from the Vancouver Giants over the summer. The Tigers gave up a conditional fifth-round pick in the 2015 bantam draft in the exchange. . . . In 74 regular-season games with the Victoria Royals and the Giants, he is 20-30-8/3.81/.873. Last season, he was 13-8-5/2.98/.898. . . . The acquisition of Rathjen leaves the Cougars with three goaltenders, the other two being sophomore Ty Edmonds, 18, and freshman Tavin Grant, 16. . . . Edmonds is 7-7-0/4.04/.875, while Grant is 1-1-0/5.75/.828. . . .
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In order to make room for Rathjen, the Cougars have waived D Wil Tomchuk, who is joining the AJHL's Fort McMurray Oil Barons. He is from Fort McMurray. . . . The Cougars are left with Rathjen, F Jari Ericsson and F Chance Braid as their 20-year-olds. . . . Tomchuk have five assists in 26 games with the Cougars last season, after coming over from the Tri-City Americans. This season, he had two assists in 15 games. In 131 regular-season games, he had a goal and 10 assists. . . . The Tigers are down to 23 players, including eight defencemen and 13 forwards. Their 20s are D Tyler Lewington, D Kyle Becker and Czech G Marek Langhamer. Lewington turns 20 on Dec. 5.
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Scoop Cooper, who writes at hockeybuzz.com, has known Gordie and Mark Howe for a number of years. With Gordie having suffered a stroke, Cooper writes right here about Mr. Hockey
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Jim Matheson of the Edmonton Journal chatted with former Portland Winterhawks head coach Brent Peterson about Gordie Howe, Andrew Ference and more. It's all right here. . . .

F Alex Forsberg, who suffered an undisclosed injury a week ago, practised with the Saskatoon Blades on Thursday. He is listed as questionable for tonight's game against the Pats in Regina. Saskatoon D Ryan Coghlan has been out since Oct. 22 and will sit for at least another month. He suffered a separated shoulder during a fight. . . . The Blades will make a move on defence before too long because they are down to six healthy defenders. . . .

There was an interesting revelation from the NHL's St. Louis Blues on Thursday morning. In an era when hockey teams are reluctant to release information regarding injuries, Blues head coach Ken Hitchcock told reports that forwards David Backes and T.J. Oshie have concussions and are out indefinitely. . . . "Backes is concussed, out ... Oshie is concussed, out," Hitchcock said.
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THE COACHING GAME:

There is an interesting story developing in Cold Lake, Alta., where the board of the directors of the Ice, a junior B team, has fired head coach Neil Langridge. The Ice was 10-2 when Langridge was fired on Tuesday. Furthermore, the Ice is coming off four straight league titles and is to be the host team for the 2015 Keystone Cup. Theresa Seraphim and Peter Lozinski of the Cold Lake Sun have more right here. "I can say that I will be leaving this organization with my head held allot higher then others involved," Langridge tweeted.
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THURSDAY'S GAMES:

In Portland, G Jackson Whistle stopped 29 shots to lead the Kelowna Rockets to a 5-0 victory over the Winterhawks. . . . It was Whistle's second shutout in his last three starts. He's got three shutouts this season and six in his career. . . . The Rockets (13-1-0) have won three in a row. . . . F Rourke Chartier scored twice, giving him 11 goals this season. . . . F Justin Kirkland added a goal, his sixth, and two assists, while F Austin Glover drew three assists. . . . The Winterhawks hadn't been shut out at home since Oct. 9, 2011, when Ty Rimmer of the Tri-City Americans stopped 43 shots in a 4-0 victory. . . . The Americans also blanked Portland on Dec. 11, 2011, the last time the Winterhawks have gone without a goal. On that night, Rimmer turned aside 29 shots in a 3-0 victory. . . . With eight defencemen dressed, the Rockets had Jesse Lees playing on a forward line at times. . . . The Rockets were without head coach Dan Lambert, who is in Sarnia, Ont., preparing to coach one of Canada's entries in the U-17 World Hockey Challenge. . . . If you keep track of such things, the coaching victory belongs to assistant coach Kris Mallette, his first. . . . The Rockets and Winterhawks (5-10-2) will meet again Saturday in Portland, where the Winterhawks are 0-5-2. . . .

In Seattle, F Lane Pederson scored his first two WHL goals to help the Thunderbirds to a 5-2 victory over the Edmonton Oil Kings. . . . Pederson, a 17-year-old from Saskatoon, was playing in his 14th game of the season. He was pointless in two regular-season and three playoff games last season. . . . Seattle scored the game's first four goals and took a 5-1 lead into the third period. . . . Seattle G Taran Kozun stopped 22 shots, three more than Edmonton's Patrick Dea. . . . F Mathew Barzal and F Ryan Gropp each scored his seventh goal of the season for Seattle. . . . “I thought they just outworked us,” Oil Kings head coach Steve Hamilton said on the team’s website. “We need to play with more pace to our game. We have to be harder to play against. We got our show run by a team that was aggressive and in our face.”
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198 - With tonight's 5-0 victory, the @Kelowna_Rockets have ended Portland's streak at 198 straight reg season games with at least one goal
— WHL Facts (@WHLFacts) October 31, 2014

It's Winterhawks and Oil Kings . . . again!

1. The more things change, the more they stay the same. That is the case in the WHL where the Edmonton Oil Kings and Portland Winterhawks will meet for a third straight spring with the Ed Chynoweth Cup on the line. . . . Only once before in WHL history have the same two teams met in three straight WHL championship finals. The Edmonton Oil Kings and Flin Flon Bombers did it from 1969-71. . . . The Bombers won the best-of-seven final 4-2 to cap the 1968-69 season, the third in league history. . . . The next season, Flin Flon swept the series, 4-0. . . . In the spring of 1971, the Oil Kings won 4-1 with one game tied. . . . Interestingly, the original Edmonton Oil Kings franchise now is the Portland Winterhawks. . . . The new Oil Kings entered the WHL as an expansion franchise for the 2007-08 season.

2. The Oil Kings and Winterhawks will open Saturday in Portland, with all games to be televised by Shaw. . . . Two years ago, the Oil Kings won in seven games. Last spring, the Winterhawks won it in six games. . . . This time, then, the final will last five games. . . . In the only meeting between the teams this season, host Edmonton won 5-4 in a shootout on Dec. 6.

3. You have to think Seattle Thunderbirds F Mathew Barzal will never again cough up the puck when he is the last man back in his zone. That’s what happened Saturday in Finland and the resulting goal by F David Kase gave Czech Republic a 4-3 OT victory over Canada in a semifinal game at the IIHF U-18 world championship. Canada had trailed 3-0 before coming back to force OT. . . . Barzal had a goal and an assist during the game, but chances are that he won't remember either of them. . . . Finland and the U.S. will meet today for the gold medal. Canada will play Sweden for bronze at 5 a.m. Pacific time.

4. In the QMJHL, the Halifax Mooseheads got an OT goal from F Maxime Fortier and beat the visiting Val-d'Or Foreurs 4-3 on Saturday night. . . . The game wasn’t without controversy. After the game, Willy Palov of the Halifax Chronicle-Herald tweeted a quote from Val-d’Or head coach Mario Durocher: “The guys are really pissed because we think it was a hand pass.” . . . The Mooseheads lead the best-of-three conference final 3-2 with Game 6 at Val-d’Or on Monday. . . . The Foreurs once led this series, 2-0. . . . Halifax F Jonathan Drouin had a 13-game point streak ended. He leads the QMJHL playoff scoring race with 37 points in 14 games. Going back to the regular-season, Drouin had been riding a 26-game point streak. He had scored 74 points in those 26 games.

5. If you’re like me, you cringe every time you see Boston Bruins F Milan Lucic go into that chest-thumping routine.

6. Right-hander Brandon Morrow of the Toronto Blue Jays didn’t allow even one hit to the Boston Red Sox on Saturday. Unfortunately for Blue Jays fans, he walked eight. Oh, and he only lasted 2 2/3 innings. The Blue Jays, who led 3-0 early, ended up losing, 7-6, for their fourth straight loss.

7. How long before we file the Blue Jays with the Chicago Cubs and Seattle Mariners?

8. Donald Sterling, who owns the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers, would appear to be a serial racist. His latest faux pas has lots of folks, including those on TNT’s NBA panel, screaming for disciplinary action from the league. Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated has more right here. . . . While the likes of Earvin (Magic) Johnson, LeBron James and Kobe Bryant spoke out against Sterling, Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan, through a team spokesman, declined to comment.
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According to the Prince George Citizen, Andy Beesley, the city’s associate director of recreation and cultural services, is joining the Prince George Cougars as the WHL team’s business manager. Beesley has handed in his resignation, effective Friday. . . . Beesley has some hockey history with Prince George businessman Greg Pocock, who heads up a group that is in the process of purchasing the franchise from Rick Brodsky. . . . The Citizen’s story is right here. . . . There is speculation that former Cougars head coach Ed Dempsey will work with the new ownership group as an advisor. Dempsey spent two seasons (1995-97) as head coach of the Kamloops Blazers, before moving on to the Cougars. He was their head coach for six full seasons before being fired on Oct. 6, 2003. . . . Vancouver Canucks D Dan Hamhuis, who is part of the new ownership group, played four seasons for Dempsey with the Cougars. D Eric Brewer of the Tampa Bay Lightning, who also is part of the Cougars ownership group, played one season under Dempsey.
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Lake Superior State has signed Damon Whitten as the head coach of its hockey team, the Lakers. He replaces Jim Roque, who was fired in March. . . . Whitten has been an assistant coach for the last four years, working under head coaches Jamie Russell and then Mel Pearson at Michigan Tech. . . . The Lakers finished ninth in the WCHA this season and didn’t qualify for the playoffs.
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THE THIRD ROUND (best-of-seven):
EASTERN CONFERENCE
EDMONTON (1) vs. MEDICINE HAT (4)
(Edmonton wins, 4-1)
Season series: Edmonton, 5-0-1; Medicine Hat, 1-5-0.
Friday: Medicine Hat 3 at Edmonton 8 (7,694)
Sunday: Medicine Hat 1 at Edmonton 3 (5,763)
Tuesday: Edmonton 1 at Medicine Hat 2 (3,189)
Wednesday: Edmonton 4 at Medicine Hat 1 (3,832)
Saturday: Medicine Hat 3 at Edmonton 4 (8,408)
INJURIES
Edmonton: None.
Medicine Hat: F Anthony Ast, day-to-day; F Gavin Broadhead, day-to-day; F Hunter Shinkaruk, indefinite.
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WESTERN CONFERENCE
KELOWNA (1) vs. PORTLAND (2)
(Portland wins, 4-1)
Season series: Kelowna, 4-0-0; Portland, 0-4-0.
Friday: Portland 4 at Kelowna 5 (6,218)
Saturday: Portland 5 at Kelowna 3 (6,341)
Tuesday: Kelowna 3 at Portland 4 (OT) (9,259)
Wednesday: Kelowna 1 at Portland 5 (9,744)
Friday: Portland 7 at Kelowna 3 (6,331)
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THE FOURTH ROUND (best-of-seven; all times local):
WHL final, for the Ed Chynoweth Cup
(x - if necessary)
(all games televised by Shaw)
PORTLAND (2, West) vs. Edmonton (1, East)
Season series: Portland, 0-0-1; Edmonton, 1-0-0.
Saturday: Edmonton at Portland, 7 p.m. (Moda Center)
Sunday, May 4: Edmonton at Portland, 5 p.m. (Moda Center)
Tuesday, May 6: Portland at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, May 7: Portland at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
x-Friday, May 9: Edmonton at Portland, 7 p.m. (TBA)
x-Sunday, May 11: Portland at Edmonton, 4 p.m.
x-Monday, May 12: Edmonton at Portland, 7 p.m. (TBA)
INJURIES
Portland: None.
Edmonton: None.
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SATURDAY’S GAME:
In Edmonton, F Brett Pollock broke a 3-3 tie late in the third period and the Oil Kings went on to beat the Medicine Hat Tigers, 4-3. . . . The Oil won the Eastern Conference final, 4-1, and advanced to their third straight WHL championship final, each of them against the Portland Winterhawks. . . . This year’s final will open Saturday in Portland, with all games televised by Shaw. . . . Pollock scored twice in the game, giving him 10 goals in these playoffs, and also had an assist. . . . His second goal, the winner, came at 14:22 of the third period. . . . Pollock had seven points in the series, including five goals, three of which were winners. . . . “It was tough to see out there because his cape was flapping around on the ice,” Edmonton F Curtis Lazar said of Pollock in a story posted on the team’s website. Lazar was named the series’ MVP. “He’s had a great playoffs for us, and just to see the strides he’s taken this season – it’s awesome.” . . . The Tigers led twice, first when F Jacob Doty got his first goal at 8:49 of the first period. That was the first time in the series that Medicine Hat scored first. . . . Edmonton F Edgars Kulda tied it with his sixth goal, on a PP, at 4:18 of the second. . . . Tigers F Cole Sanford put his guys out front again, with his 10th goal, at 10:03 of the second. . . . The Oil Kings then scored twice, with Pollock finding the range at 14:03 and F Mads Eller getting his second goal of these playoffs, shorthanded, at 17:14. . . . Sanford pulled the Tigers even again at 1:57 of the third, setting the stage for Pollock’s winner. . . . Lazar, who drew an assist on the winner, was named the series’ MVP. He had six points, including four goals, in the five games. . . . Edmonton G Tristan Jarry stopped 16 shots. He wasn’t nearly as busy as Medicine Hat’s Marek Langhamer who was outstanding, with 48 saves. . . . The Oil Kings were 1-for-4 on the PP; the Tigers were 0-for-3. . . . Medicine Hat F Trevor Cox, who had 23 points in 17 playoff games, was scratched after suffering an undisclosed injury in Game 4. . . . The Tigers moved F Miles Koules into Cox’s spot alongside Curtis Valk and Sanford. . . . Edmonton F Henrik Samuelsson and Lazar each finished with one assist, leaving them tied for the franchise record for most career playoff points. Samuelsson has 48 points, including 17 goals, in 53 games; Lazar, who has 25 goals, has played in 60 games. . . . Edmonton D Blake Orban had one assist as he played for the first time since March 8. . . . The 50/50 winner went home with $27,744, assuming it was claimed.
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From WHL Facts (@WHLFacts): “.828 - Over the past 3 years, the @EdmOilKings and @pdxwinterhawks are a combined 72-15 in the first 3 playoff rounds.”
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From Seattle Thunderbirds G Danny Mumaugh (@DannyMumaugh): “Don't worry, I still love you, @Barzal_97”


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