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12-10-2008, 06:12 AM
with Gregg Drinnan
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
THE MacBETH REPORT: F Josh Bonar (Kamloops/Vancouver/Regina) has been released by Lørenskog (Norway Elitserien). He had three goals and four assists in 12 games this season. . . . D Sergei Klimentiev (Medicine Hat) has been picked up by Salavat Yulaev Ufa (KHL) after being released by Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod. He had one assist in 19 games for Torpedo this season.
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JUST NOTES: RW Igor Revenko has left the Prince Albert Raiders to join the Belarussian national junior team at the Group A World Junior Championship in Herisau, Switzerland. It starts Sunday. Revenko, 18, had 11 points in 16 games for Belarus at the U-18 tournament in Russia last spring. Revenko will miss four WHL games but should return for a Dec. 27 game against the visiting Saskatoon Blades. . . . D Tomas Voracek, 18, who began the season with the Raiders, won’t attend the Czech Republic’s national junior team selection camp. He has had surgery on his nose so will sit this one out. Voracek left the Raiders early in the season in order to be with his ailing mother.
G Chet Pickard of the Tri-City Americans is the ADT CHL goaltender of the week. He was 3-0-0-0 with a shutout, a 0.67 GAA and a .976 save percentage last week. He is off to the Canadian national junior team’s selection camp in Ottawa later this week. . . . The Vancouver Giants, who are at home to the Seattle Thunderbirds on Wednesday, are off to the best start in the franchise’s history — this is the team’s eighth season. The Giants have 51 points through 29 games. They are 13-0-0-2 at home. . . . The Saskatoon Blades will be without D Colin Joe (concussion), likely until after the Christmas break. LW Mike Reich (hand) is day-to-day, while C Travis Toomey (collarbone) won’t play until next month.
The Red Deer Rebels have added F Jordie Deagle, 19, to their roster. Deagle, who was released earlier this season by the Prince George Cougars, has been with the AJHL’s Brooks Bandits. His younger brother, Brad, a 16-year-old defenceman, also is with the Bandits and got into two games with the Rebels earlier this season. Jordie will make his Red Deer debut on Friday against the Raiders in Prince Albert. . . . . Jim Swanson, the sports editor of the Prince George Citizen, is reporting that the Cougars and Marc Habscheid have talked since Drew Schoneck was fired as head coach. “We’ve had interest from guys like Marc Habscheid down to junior B coaches,” Cougars GM Dallas Thompson told Swanson. “We’ve talked to Marc, and where that goes, I don’t know. I don’t think that will be a fit for us, but maybe it will. He wants a lot of things that I doubt many teams would be willing to give up. I could be wrong, but I don’t think so on this one. We’ve talked to a lot of people and we’re going to continue to do that. Right now, we’re more than prepared to go ahead with what we have. We’ve gone through enough change.” Thompson also said that Wade Klippenstein, who has been the head coach since Schoneck’s departure last week, will remain in that position through the end of this season.
C C.J. Stretch scored twice — it was his first two-goal game of the season — to carry the Kamloops Blazers to a 4-3 victory over the Hurricanes in Lethbridge. The Blazers halted a three-game skid by ending Lethbridge’s seven-game winning streak. . . . Kamloops D Nick Ross, who is from Lethbridge, had a goal and an assist. . . . Kamloops RW Kenton Dulle had an assist to run his point streak to 13 games, the longest active streak in the WHL. . . . The Moose Jaw Warriors erased a 2-0 first-period deficit and beat the visiting Brandon Wheat Kings 6-3. The Warriors, who halted a seven-game losing streak, are 3-0 against Brandon this season. Brandon F Scott Glennie picked up an assist and is on a 12-game point streak. . . . The Brandon Sun reports that the Wheat Kings have sold 2,759 season tickets, breaking the franchise record of 2,752 set last season.
F Brett Sonne scored the game’s first three goals, all in the second period, and Martin Jones earned the shutout as the Calgary Hitmen beat the Silvertips 4-0 in Everett. Sonne’s brother, Brennan, who played for Everett and now is at the U of British Columbia was in the stands. Brett leads the WHL with 55 points as he leaves for the Canadian junior team’s selection camp. . . . Jones stopped 28 shots for his second shutout of the season and third of his career. . . . Calgary has put up three shutouts this season; Everett has been blanked four times. . . . Everett has lost four in a row. . . . Sonne has 23 goals, as does linemate Brandon Kozun, who had Calgary’s fourth goal. . . . LW Drayson Bowman scored with 24 seconds left in the third period to give the Spokane Chiefs a 1-0 victory over the Bruins in Chilliwack. G Dustin Tokarski stopped 23 shots for his fourth shutout of the season and the team’s fifth. It was the 12th of his career. . . . The Bruins, who have lost 10 in a row, have been shut out six times.
Scout
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
THE MacBETH REPORT: F Josh Bonar (Kamloops/Vancouver/Regina) has been released by Lørenskog (Norway Elitserien). He had three goals and four assists in 12 games this season. . . . D Sergei Klimentiev (Medicine Hat) has been picked up by Salavat Yulaev Ufa (KHL) after being released by Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod. He had one assist in 19 games for Torpedo this season.
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JUST NOTES: RW Igor Revenko has left the Prince Albert Raiders to join the Belarussian national junior team at the Group A World Junior Championship in Herisau, Switzerland. It starts Sunday. Revenko, 18, had 11 points in 16 games for Belarus at the U-18 tournament in Russia last spring. Revenko will miss four WHL games but should return for a Dec. 27 game against the visiting Saskatoon Blades. . . . D Tomas Voracek, 18, who began the season with the Raiders, won’t attend the Czech Republic’s national junior team selection camp. He has had surgery on his nose so will sit this one out. Voracek left the Raiders early in the season in order to be with his ailing mother.
G Chet Pickard of the Tri-City Americans is the ADT CHL goaltender of the week. He was 3-0-0-0 with a shutout, a 0.67 GAA and a .976 save percentage last week. He is off to the Canadian national junior team’s selection camp in Ottawa later this week. . . . The Vancouver Giants, who are at home to the Seattle Thunderbirds on Wednesday, are off to the best start in the franchise’s history — this is the team’s eighth season. The Giants have 51 points through 29 games. They are 13-0-0-2 at home. . . . The Saskatoon Blades will be without D Colin Joe (concussion), likely until after the Christmas break. LW Mike Reich (hand) is day-to-day, while C Travis Toomey (collarbone) won’t play until next month.
The Red Deer Rebels have added F Jordie Deagle, 19, to their roster. Deagle, who was released earlier this season by the Prince George Cougars, has been with the AJHL’s Brooks Bandits. His younger brother, Brad, a 16-year-old defenceman, also is with the Bandits and got into two games with the Rebels earlier this season. Jordie will make his Red Deer debut on Friday against the Raiders in Prince Albert. . . . . Jim Swanson, the sports editor of the Prince George Citizen, is reporting that the Cougars and Marc Habscheid have talked since Drew Schoneck was fired as head coach. “We’ve had interest from guys like Marc Habscheid down to junior B coaches,” Cougars GM Dallas Thompson told Swanson. “We’ve talked to Marc, and where that goes, I don’t know. I don’t think that will be a fit for us, but maybe it will. He wants a lot of things that I doubt many teams would be willing to give up. I could be wrong, but I don’t think so on this one. We’ve talked to a lot of people and we’re going to continue to do that. Right now, we’re more than prepared to go ahead with what we have. We’ve gone through enough change.” Thompson also said that Wade Klippenstein, who has been the head coach since Schoneck’s departure last week, will remain in that position through the end of this season.
C C.J. Stretch scored twice — it was his first two-goal game of the season — to carry the Kamloops Blazers to a 4-3 victory over the Hurricanes in Lethbridge. The Blazers halted a three-game skid by ending Lethbridge’s seven-game winning streak. . . . Kamloops D Nick Ross, who is from Lethbridge, had a goal and an assist. . . . Kamloops RW Kenton Dulle had an assist to run his point streak to 13 games, the longest active streak in the WHL. . . . The Moose Jaw Warriors erased a 2-0 first-period deficit and beat the visiting Brandon Wheat Kings 6-3. The Warriors, who halted a seven-game losing streak, are 3-0 against Brandon this season. Brandon F Scott Glennie picked up an assist and is on a 12-game point streak. . . . The Brandon Sun reports that the Wheat Kings have sold 2,759 season tickets, breaking the franchise record of 2,752 set last season.
F Brett Sonne scored the game’s first three goals, all in the second period, and Martin Jones earned the shutout as the Calgary Hitmen beat the Silvertips 4-0 in Everett. Sonne’s brother, Brennan, who played for Everett and now is at the U of British Columbia was in the stands. Brett leads the WHL with 55 points as he leaves for the Canadian junior team’s selection camp. . . . Jones stopped 28 shots for his second shutout of the season and third of his career. . . . Calgary has put up three shutouts this season; Everett has been blanked four times. . . . Everett has lost four in a row. . . . Sonne has 23 goals, as does linemate Brandon Kozun, who had Calgary’s fourth goal. . . . LW Drayson Bowman scored with 24 seconds left in the third period to give the Spokane Chiefs a 1-0 victory over the Bruins in Chilliwack. G Dustin Tokarski stopped 23 shots for his fourth shutout of the season and the team’s fifth. It was the 12th of his career. . . . The Bruins, who have lost 10 in a row, have been shut out six times.
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