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Triton
02-06-2005, 12:49 PM
Tuesday night will be a night to remember for
Wheat Kings' veteran Lance Monych as he will take to the ice for the 300th
time in his Western Hockey League career.

A 20-year old native of Winnipeg, who began this season with the ECHL's
Idaho Steelheads, Monych is poised to become only the sixth player in
franchise history to play in 300 games for the Wheat Kings. On Wednesday
night, he'll moved past former Brandon right-winger Randy Ponte and
into sole posession of fifth place on the club's all time list when the
Wheat Kings travel to Prince Albert to meet the Raiders.

A former third round draft choice of the Wheat Kings, Monych will join
some elite company on Tuesday - Ponte (300), Ryan Craig (302), Dale
McMullin (309), Aaron Goldade (310) and current assistant coach Dwayne
Gylywoychuk (323).

Drafted and signed by the National Hockey League's Phoenix Coyotes,
Monych reached another milestone this weekend when he scored his 100th
career WHL goal. In 299 career games, the former all star right-winger has
100 goals and 211 points.

In 44 games this season, the 5-year veteran is averaging close to a
point per game, having scored 20 goals and 41 points.

Meanwhile captain Tim Konsorada - Brandon's other five year WHL veteran
- has moved to within eight games of 300 and over the weekend, he moved
into a tie with Brett Thurston for seventh place on the club's all time
list with 292 games. The 20-year old native of Lamont, Alberta who
signed an NHL contract with Columbus last summer, could have ended his WHL
career with the Wheat King record for most games played had it not been
for a shouler injury that forced him to miss 47 games last season.

Konsorada, who recently moved past teammate Ryan Stone and into sixth
place in the WHL scoring race with 19 goals and 60 points, enters
Tuesday's game having scored 71 goals and 222 points. He's also moved to
within three goals of his career high, set two years ago when he finished
the year with 22 goals and a career high 70 points in 71 games.

In other Wheat King news, right-winger Eric Fehr scored four points
this weekend to build up a five point lead on Colton Yellow Horn of
Lethbridge and Vancouver's Gilbert Brule atop the WHL scoring race. The
19-year old Winkler product enters the week with 72 points including a
league leading 42 goals. The Washington Capitals' first round draft choice
in 2003, is on pace to become the first Wheat King in over twenty years
to score 50 goals in back to back seasons as well as win the league
scoring title. Kelly Glowa scored 59 an 71 goals during the early eighties
while Ray Ferraro was the last Brandon player to win the scoring
championship, when he scored 108 goals and 192 points during the 1983-84
campaign.

Winners of three of their last four games, Monych, Konsorada, Fehr and
the Wheat Kings will host the Central Division leading Lethbridge
Hurricanes on Tuesday night at the Keystone Centre. The Wheat Kings enter
the week, sitting nine points behind the first place Saskatoon Blades in
the WHL's Eastern Division.