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12-14-2008, 07:39 AM
with Gregg Drinnan
Sunday, December 14, 2008
JUST NOTES: If you want to know what a concussion can do to a person, consider the case of former Vancouver Giants F Michal Repik. He has been with the NHL’s Florida Panthers since Monday – he has one goal in three games – and hopes to play Sunday in Vancouver against the Canucks. Repik suffered a severe concussion on Dec. 1, 2007, and told Steve Ewen of the Vancouver Province on Saturday that he still is without his sense of smell. “I deal with it,” Repik said. “I don’t know if it’s scary. It is not fun if you can’t smell anything. It’s something we will deal with after the season, maybe with a small surgery.” . . . Kelowna Rockets D Tyson Barrie is day-to-day after taking a teammate’s knee to the head in Friday’s 3-1 loss to the visiting Swift Current Broncos. The Rockets are in Calgary for a Sunday afternoon game with the Hitmen and he is questionable. . . . The Rockets left for Calgary after Friday’s game and had a tough practice in Cowtown on Saturday, one which Barrie sat out. “When it comes down to it, the guys just aren’t working hard enough right now,” Kelowna head coach Ryan Huska told Doyle Potenteau of the Kelowna Daily Courier. “Instead of yelling and screaming (at them), they have to know that if they don’t work in a game, they’re gonna have to work in practice. All the time, harder with more skating. And they’re not going to be given power-play time and that sort of ice time, and that’s what it really comes down to. If we do a better job behind the bench not putting certain guys out — if they’re not working — that’s the way it is. It should help get our message across so they wind up competing consistently.” . . .
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F Jay Fehr’s goal on the PP at 1:39 of OT gave the host Brandon Wheat Kings a 5-4 victory over the Prince Albert Raiders. . . . F Ian Duval and F Tomas Karpov each had two goals as the Moose Jaw Warriors dumped the Kootenay Ice 7-4 in Cranbrook. F Andrew Bailey scored the Ice’s Teddy Bear goal. It was Moose Jaw’s third straight victory. . . . The Ice had Scott Orth, 19, who has played three games for an NCAA Division II team at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, this season, backing up G Nathan Lieuwen. . . . G Michael Snider ran his record to 6-0-0-0 as the Calgary Hitmen beat the visiting Chilliwack Bruins, 3-1. Snider stopped 21 shots for the victory which was Calgary’s 11th straight on home ice. Calgary is 17-1-0-0 in the Pengrowth Saddledome. . . . F Brandon Kozun scored Calgary’s last goal, into an empty net. It was his 24th of the season, tying him for the WHL lead with Kelowna LW Jamie Benn, who is in Ottawa at the national junior team’s selection camp, and Moose Jaw F Joel Broda. . . .
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G Travis Yonkman stopped 28 shots as the Swift Current Broncos beat the host Kamloops Blazers 2-0. It was Yonkman’s first shutout this season and the sixth of his career. F Cody Eakin, in his first game back after recovering from a high ankle sprain, broke a scoreless tie at 8:29 of the third period. Eakin hadn’t played since Nov. 14. It was the Blazers’ Teddy Bear game and the goal went to the Broncos’ Taylor Vause, who scored into an empty net, resulting in a flood of stuffed toys being thrown from the stands by Blazers fans. . . . F Shane Harper had two goals and F Kyle Beach had three assists to lead the host Everett Silvertips to a 4-2 victory over the Prince George Cougars and halt a five-game losing skid. . . . D Craig Schira scored 27 seconds into the first period and the Vancouver Giants went on to a 3-1 victory over the Tri-City Americans in Kennewick, Wash. Vancouver G Jamie Tucker got the victory over Drew Owsley as both teams’ starters are in camp with Canada’s national junior team. Tucker finished with 28 saves in running his record to 9-0-0-1, while Owsley stopped 24 shots. He is 4-1-0-0. The Americans had won eight in a row and 10 straight at home. . . . In Spokane, Seattle G Calvin Pickard made 35 saves as the Thunderbirds upset the Chiefs, 3-1. Spokane had a 36-16 edge in shots. . . . Seattle doesn’t play again until after the Christmas break. It already has played 26 road games as it prepares to move into a new arena in Kent, Wash., on Jan. 3. The Thunderbirds are seventh in the Western Conference, a point behind the Kamloops Blazers. . . .
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F Colton Grant scored twice, giving him six goals this season, and was plus-4 as the visiting Medicine Hat Tigers beat the Portland Winter Hawks, 5-3. Medicine Hat G Ryan Holfeld stopped 31 shots as the Tigers were outshot, 34-19. . . . In Saskatoon, G Darcy Kuemper stopped 27 shots to lead the Red Deer Rebels to a 3-0 victory over the Blades. It was the second shutout of the season for Kuemper, an 18-year-old freshman who just happens to be from Saskatoon. Red Deer was 2-for-10 on the PP; the Blades were 0-for-5. It was the first time this season that Saskatoon has been blanked.
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
JUST NOTES: If you want to know what a concussion can do to a person, consider the case of former Vancouver Giants F Michal Repik. He has been with the NHL’s Florida Panthers since Monday – he has one goal in three games – and hopes to play Sunday in Vancouver against the Canucks. Repik suffered a severe concussion on Dec. 1, 2007, and told Steve Ewen of the Vancouver Province on Saturday that he still is without his sense of smell. “I deal with it,” Repik said. “I don’t know if it’s scary. It is not fun if you can’t smell anything. It’s something we will deal with after the season, maybe with a small surgery.” . . . Kelowna Rockets D Tyson Barrie is day-to-day after taking a teammate’s knee to the head in Friday’s 3-1 loss to the visiting Swift Current Broncos. The Rockets are in Calgary for a Sunday afternoon game with the Hitmen and he is questionable. . . . The Rockets left for Calgary after Friday’s game and had a tough practice in Cowtown on Saturday, one which Barrie sat out. “When it comes down to it, the guys just aren’t working hard enough right now,” Kelowna head coach Ryan Huska told Doyle Potenteau of the Kelowna Daily Courier. “Instead of yelling and screaming (at them), they have to know that if they don’t work in a game, they’re gonna have to work in practice. All the time, harder with more skating. And they’re not going to be given power-play time and that sort of ice time, and that’s what it really comes down to. If we do a better job behind the bench not putting certain guys out — if they’re not working — that’s the way it is. It should help get our message across so they wind up competing consistently.” . . .
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F Jay Fehr’s goal on the PP at 1:39 of OT gave the host Brandon Wheat Kings a 5-4 victory over the Prince Albert Raiders. . . . F Ian Duval and F Tomas Karpov each had two goals as the Moose Jaw Warriors dumped the Kootenay Ice 7-4 in Cranbrook. F Andrew Bailey scored the Ice’s Teddy Bear goal. It was Moose Jaw’s third straight victory. . . . The Ice had Scott Orth, 19, who has played three games for an NCAA Division II team at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, this season, backing up G Nathan Lieuwen. . . . G Michael Snider ran his record to 6-0-0-0 as the Calgary Hitmen beat the visiting Chilliwack Bruins, 3-1. Snider stopped 21 shots for the victory which was Calgary’s 11th straight on home ice. Calgary is 17-1-0-0 in the Pengrowth Saddledome. . . . F Brandon Kozun scored Calgary’s last goal, into an empty net. It was his 24th of the season, tying him for the WHL lead with Kelowna LW Jamie Benn, who is in Ottawa at the national junior team’s selection camp, and Moose Jaw F Joel Broda. . . .
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G Travis Yonkman stopped 28 shots as the Swift Current Broncos beat the host Kamloops Blazers 2-0. It was Yonkman’s first shutout this season and the sixth of his career. F Cody Eakin, in his first game back after recovering from a high ankle sprain, broke a scoreless tie at 8:29 of the third period. Eakin hadn’t played since Nov. 14. It was the Blazers’ Teddy Bear game and the goal went to the Broncos’ Taylor Vause, who scored into an empty net, resulting in a flood of stuffed toys being thrown from the stands by Blazers fans. . . . F Shane Harper had two goals and F Kyle Beach had three assists to lead the host Everett Silvertips to a 4-2 victory over the Prince George Cougars and halt a five-game losing skid. . . . D Craig Schira scored 27 seconds into the first period and the Vancouver Giants went on to a 3-1 victory over the Tri-City Americans in Kennewick, Wash. Vancouver G Jamie Tucker got the victory over Drew Owsley as both teams’ starters are in camp with Canada’s national junior team. Tucker finished with 28 saves in running his record to 9-0-0-1, while Owsley stopped 24 shots. He is 4-1-0-0. The Americans had won eight in a row and 10 straight at home. . . . In Spokane, Seattle G Calvin Pickard made 35 saves as the Thunderbirds upset the Chiefs, 3-1. Spokane had a 36-16 edge in shots. . . . Seattle doesn’t play again until after the Christmas break. It already has played 26 road games as it prepares to move into a new arena in Kent, Wash., on Jan. 3. The Thunderbirds are seventh in the Western Conference, a point behind the Kamloops Blazers. . . .
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F Colton Grant scored twice, giving him six goals this season, and was plus-4 as the visiting Medicine Hat Tigers beat the Portland Winter Hawks, 5-3. Medicine Hat G Ryan Holfeld stopped 31 shots as the Tigers were outshot, 34-19. . . . In Saskatoon, G Darcy Kuemper stopped 27 shots to lead the Red Deer Rebels to a 3-0 victory over the Blades. It was the second shutout of the season for Kuemper, an 18-year-old freshman who just happens to be from Saskatoon. Red Deer was 2-for-10 on the PP; the Blades were 0-for-5. It was the first time this season that Saskatoon has been blanked.
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