Road trip

[tiny]

Just back from a five game road trip (4 and 1). Kootenay; then 4 games in five nights. Kelowna, Kamloops, then off toward Victoria after game, Coquihalla closed, and detour from Merritt to Spence's Bridge, then to Tsawwassen, early ferry and bus to Victoria for two more games. 9pts out of 10. I am really impressed with the team and their work ethic on this trip. Several fans in the rinks we visited told us that the Rebels were the best team they have faced this year.

John Persson and Turner Elson have really turned it on. Great to have goals show up for others too: Kayle, Mason, Tyson, Cory, Josh, Justin, Chad and Dalton. The D was solid in all but the last game where some seemed to tire, and Patrick played well. All players looked a little tired in the last game, but they gutted it out and still got a point. Pouliot made several terrific saves in the last game. Really felt bad that we couldn't hold on for him.

Ferry trip back was a little rocky...LOL Felt like we were staggering

Really enjoyed getting to talk with several players, staff, and the coaches at different times. Great guys.

Exciting to see a few parents, billets, and other Rebel fans along for the trip.
Some icy, snowy roads through the passes. Good thing we had a driver we could trust.

Iggy Bobblehead -- free. Thank you special fan in Kamloops
Ferry cost-- vehicle and 4 of us -- $107 Just ask what the Rebel bus ferry cost!!!
Almost perfect results--priceless

[Rebel~66]

Great post, tiny. Sounds like you had a great time and the Rebels sure made it worth your while.

Thanks for sharing!

[CdnSailor]

By CLEVE DHEENSAW, Times Colonist November 15, 2011

Alex Petrovic moves so seamlessly up the ice that it’s not hard to see why the Florida Panthers took him 36th overall in the second round of the 2010 NHL draft.

The fluid Red Deer Rebels defenceman used his two games last weekend at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre against the Royals to his advantage in being named Western Hockey League player of the week, with a goal and three assists. He ripped through four games in B.C. with a two goals, seven assists and A plus-three rating as the Rebels went 3-0-1.

THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN SPEAKING: Mark MacKay played only one season with the Moose Jaw Warriors but it was a memorable one and that’s why he has been named honorary captain of the Subway Super Series game Thursday in the Jaw between the WHL and Russian selects.

The first captain of the expansion Warriors, as a 20-year-old in 1984-85, MacKay went on a tear with 66 goals and 74 assists for 140 points in 71 games to be named the oldest WHL rookie of the year award winner.

MacKay, who went on to represent Germany in the 1998 Nagano and 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, piled up more than 2,000 points in his adding-machine European career.

Warriors director of business operations Corey Nyhagen labelled the selection of MacKay “a very fitting choice as the original Warriors captain.”

Former Victoria Cougars WHL goaltending great Grant Fuhr was the honorary captain two years ago when the capital hosted a Subway Super Series game at the Memorial Centre.

MORE ALUMNI TRAILS: Victoria Racquet Club product Simon Witt wasn’t with Red Deer when the Rebels came through his hometown rink last weekend to play the Royals. The promising six-foot-three rearguard suffered a serious hip injury in 2010 and endured two surgeries, forcing his retirement from hockey.

He was a fifth-round bantam draft pick by the Vancouver Giants in 2007 and was traded to the Rebels for the 2009-10 season. A bright young man, the 19-year-old Witt is now pursuing an engineering degree at Memorial University in St. John’s, N.L.

Which should be a lesson for any young players good enough on the ice to consider the major-junior route. Don’t bank on the NHL because, obviously, only the very few make it. Have a fall-back plan through your major-junior career. Whether emotionally girding yourself to slog it out through the minor-pro grind of the AHL, ECHL, Central League or Europe, playing CIS, going back to school or beginning a civilian trade or job, 95 per cent of players will be needing their fall back plan upon graduation from major-junior.

You enter into a dream factory when you play major-junior. That certainly resonates as a marketing message. But be harshly realistic about it, for your own good.

NUMBERS: Mark Stone of the Brandon Wheat Kings leads the WHL in scoring with 46 points in 22 games, but the most impressive scoring numbers so far this season have to be Medicine Hat Tigers sniper Emerson Etem’s 25 goals in 21 games and the Vancouver Giants water-bug quick forward Brendan Gallagher’s 18 goals in 18 games.



Read more: http://www.timescolonist.com/sports/Rebels+blue+liner+monster+week/5716342/story.html#ixzz1du16hxBB