Courtesy Alan Caldwell:

Friday, December 14, 2007
Friday notes
A short while back, I took a shot at the Prince George Cougars for their habit of issuing ridiculously short press releases - basically a statement of a fact, with no accompanying information for anyone reading.

Well, the Cougars have some company in this category now. The Kamloops Blazers have relieved assistant coach Andrew Milne of his duties, and this is the release they issued to announce it: "Andrew Milne has left the Kamloops Blazers effective immediately. No further comment will be made at this time."

More news.....Red Deer has acquired 17 year old prospect goaltender Darcy Kuemper from Spokane for a conditional 2009 7th round bantam pick. The pick is conditional, which means whether Spokane gets anything probably hinges on whether Kuemper makes Red Deer's roster before then.

A curious move on Red Deer's part IMO.....they already have two goalies on their roster and last month they picked up 18 year old David Aime from Prince Albert in a trade for defenceman Zac Stebner. They must be setting up for a trade of starter James Reimer to a contender.

The Blades made two roster moves yesterday as well, assigning 18 year old defenceman Colton MacPherson to Junior A, and adding 16 year old defenceman Mitch Berg from midget. Berg was the Blades' 2006 1st round bantam pick but didn't make the team out of training camp. Sounds like he is there to stay now though.