Triton
10-04-2005, 03:33 PM
The Western Hockey League's Brandon Wheat Kings have announced that 17-year old left-winger Morgan MacLean has been reassigned to the Alberta Junior Hockey League's Drayton Valley Thunder.
Today's announcement leaves the Wheat Kings with 27 players on their current roster - three goalkeepers, nine defencemen and fifteen forwards.
A third round draft choice of the Wheat Kings in the 2003 WHL bantam draft, the Grande Prairie, Alberta native appeared in one game this season during the first two weeks of the regular season. MacLean split last year between the Medicine Hat Cablevision AAA midget Tigers and the Alberta Junior B Hockey League.
In Drayton Valley, he'll play for Mark Howell, who served as an assistant coach with the Wheat Kings for two seasons - under former head coach Dean Clark.
On the ice, the Wheat Kings will be hoping to snap a 4-game losing streak Wednesday night when they kick off a 3-game in four night home stand against the visiting Saskatoon Blades. The Blades come to town, having not played since September 24th. Brandon meanwhile is coming off a disappointing weekend that saw the Wheat Kings lose in Lethbridge, Medicine Hat and Kootenay.
Newly acquired right-winger Bryan Kauk, one of ten Brandon products on this year's team, will make his Keystone Centre debut as a Wheat King. The former AAA midget scoring star was obtained from the Kamloops Blazers last Thursday. In two games over the weekend, Kauk had one assist.
Today's announcement leaves the Wheat Kings with 27 players on their current roster - three goalkeepers, nine defencemen and fifteen forwards.
A third round draft choice of the Wheat Kings in the 2003 WHL bantam draft, the Grande Prairie, Alberta native appeared in one game this season during the first two weeks of the regular season. MacLean split last year between the Medicine Hat Cablevision AAA midget Tigers and the Alberta Junior B Hockey League.
In Drayton Valley, he'll play for Mark Howell, who served as an assistant coach with the Wheat Kings for two seasons - under former head coach Dean Clark.
On the ice, the Wheat Kings will be hoping to snap a 4-game losing streak Wednesday night when they kick off a 3-game in four night home stand against the visiting Saskatoon Blades. The Blades come to town, having not played since September 24th. Brandon meanwhile is coming off a disappointing weekend that saw the Wheat Kings lose in Lethbridge, Medicine Hat and Kootenay.
Newly acquired right-winger Bryan Kauk, one of ten Brandon products on this year's team, will make his Keystone Centre debut as a Wheat King. The former AAA midget scoring star was obtained from the Kamloops Blazers last Thursday. In two games over the weekend, Kauk had one assist.