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Frazer McLaren scored three goals to lead the Portland Winter Hawks to a 6-4 victory over the Chilliwack Bruins in Western Hockey League action on Sunday night. Rob Klinkhammer, Matt Sokol and Colton Sceviour, into an empty net, also scored for Portland (4-7-0-0), which snapped a three-game losing skid despite playing its third game in as many nights. Sceviour also contributed three assists. Mark Santorelli and Oscar Moller, with two each, replied for Chilliwack (2-11-1-0), which has lost ...

A player with the Western Hockey League's Moose Jaw Warriors was hospitalized with serious injuries after a car and truck collided Sunday morning in the southern Saskatchewan city. GM Chad Lang said Garrett Robinson, one of three players hurt in the crash, underwent surgery after being transferred to a Regina hospital. ``(The doctors) have informed us that it is critical, that he has trauma to the head and brain,'' Lang ...

Eric Doyle's power-play goal midway through the third stood as the winner as the Everett Silvertips downed the Portland Winter Hawks 4-2 in Western Hockey League action Saturday. Zach Hamill, Jason Fransoo and Moises Gutierrez added for the Silvertips (8-1-0-1), who got 29 saves from Leland Irving. Robert Klinkhammer and Matt Sokol scored for Portland (3-6-0-0). Chris Ward stopped 26 shots in the loss.

Carey Price stopped all 27 shots for his first shutout of the season and the Tri-City Americans beat the Prince George Cougars 3-0 in Western Hockey League action Friday. Tanner Gillies, Colton Yellow Horn and Drew Hoff scored for the Americans (8-2-0-0), who are undefeated at home. Rookie defenceman Tyler Schmidt assisted on all three goals. Real Cyr had 26 save for the Cougars (4-6-0-2), who have lost four in a row.

Spencer Machacek notched a goal and assisted on the winner as the Vancouver Giants rallied to defeat the Saskatoon Blades 2-1 in Western Hockey League action Saturday night. Despite trailing for two periods, the defending WHL champion Giants posted their 12th victory in their first 13 games. The Blades dropped to 4-6-0-1. Milan Lucic scored the winning goal for Vancouver at 13:35 of the third period while Colton Gillies was the lone Saskatoon marksman. Saskatoon led 1-0 after the ...

The Swift Current Broncos scored four times in less than five minutes late in the third period to cap a come-from-behind 6-3 win over the visiting Prince Albert Raiders in Western Hockey League action Saturday. Defenceman Michael Wilson scored his first of the season with 6:32 remaining in regulation to tie the game at 3-3. Just 22 seconds later Brady Leavold scored an unassisted goal to count the eventual game winner. Geordie Wudrick scored 1:10 later and Leavold ...

Medicine Hat's Darren Helm scored in the fourth round of the shootout to lift the Tigers to a 3-2 victory over the Seattle Thunderbirds in Western Hockey League action Saturday. The Tigers scored three times in four tries in the shootout while winning goaltender Matt Keetley stopped two of Seattle's four shooters and finished with 26 saves. Rookie Jan Eberle gave Seattle a 1-0 lead at 6:17 of the first period when he scored on the first ...

Martin Hanzal's third-period power-play goal stood as the winner as the Red Deer Rebels edged the Moose Jaw Warriors 2-1 in Western Hockey League action Saturday. Kirill Starkov also scored for Red Deer (6-3-2-1), notching his 11th of the season just 74 seconds into the game. Riley Holzapfel sniped the lone goal for Moose Jaw (3-8-0-0), a power-play marker that pulled the visitors to within one with 3:06 remaining in the third period. James Reimer made 24 saves ...

The streak is over ... finally. Craig Lineker scored with 5:12 remaining in the third period to propel the Chilliwack Bruins to a 4-2 victory over the Spokane Chiefs in Western Hockey League action Saturday, snapping Chilliwack's 11-game losing skid. The last time the Bruins won was the season opener against Kelowna exactly one month ago. Oscar Moller, with two, and Myles Stoesz also scored for Chilliwack (2-10-1-0), which lost 5-2 in Kelowna on Friday. Corey Courchene and David ...

Ryan McDonald and Garrett Festerling each scored hat tricks as the Regina Pats pulverized the Lethbridge Hurricanes 11-3 in Western Hockey League action Saturday. Jordan Eberle added two goals and two assists for the Pats (7-4-0-0), who got one goal apiece from Kyle Ross, Justin Bernhardt and Brett Leffler. Bernhardt also had three assists. Zach Boychuk, Derek Werenka and Kris Hogg replied for Lethbridge (5-9-1-1), which got 27 saves from Justin Leclerc. Linden Rowat made 26 saves ...

Goaltender Dustin Butler posted his second shutout of the season Saturday as the Kamloops Blazers blanked the Kelowna Rockets 3-0 in Western Hockey League action. Butler turned aside 14 shots in running his record to 4-1-0-0 since being acquired from the Portland Winter Hawks on Oct. 3. Matt Schmermund, C.J. Stretch and Reid Jorgensen scored for the Blazers (6-3-1-1). Goaltender Kris Westblom stopped 23 shots for the Rockets (4-7-0-2).

Codey Burki scored a pair of power-play goals to lead the Brandon Wheat Kings to a 3-1 triumph over the Kootenay Ice in the Western Hockey League on Saturday night. Captain Teegan Moore and Daryl Boyle both scored their first goals of the year while Mark Derlago extended his points streak to nine games with an assist for the Wheat Kings (8-4-0-1), who won their fourth in a row. Arnaud Jacquemet replied with the lone goal for ...

Brodie Dupont scored twice and added an assist to lead the Calgary Hitmen to a convincing 6-1 win over the Moose Jaw Warriors in Western Hockey League action Friday night. Derek LeBlanc also notched two goals in the game for Calgary (6-4-0-1), while Michael Hengen had a goal and an assist. Karl Alzner also scored, while Keegan Dansereau, Ryan White and Steve Covington each had two assists. Riley Holzapfel had the lone goal for the Warriors (3-6-0-0), while ...

Mark Derlago scored three goals to lead the Brandon Wheat Kings to a 9-5 victory over the Lethbridge Hurricanes in a Western Hockey League shootout on Friday night. Ryan Reaves and Juraj Simek both scored twice, while Codey Burki and Theran Yeo added singles for the Wheat Kings (7-4-0-1), who went 5-for-9 on their league-leading power play. Kris Hogg replied with two goals, while Mitch Fadden, Mike Wuchterl and Adam Chorneyko each scored once for the Hurricanes (5-8-1-1), ...

Craig Cuthbert scored twice, including an empty-net marker with one minute remaining, as the Kelowna Rockets defeated the Chilliwack Bruins 5-2 in Western Hockey League action Friday. Mark Santorelli, with his fifth of the season, and Josh Aspenlind, with his first, scored for Chilliwack (1-10-1-0), whose only win of the season came against Kelowna, 3-1 in season-opening action on Sept. 21. Kaspars Saulietis, Kirt Hill and Clayton Barthel replied for Kelowna (4-6-0-2), which trailed 2-0 after the first and ...

A pair of Kootenay Ice goals 1:31 apart in the second period was the difference in a 3-1 Ice victory over the host Swift Current Broncos in Western Hockey League action Friday. Ben Maxwell scored an unassisted short handed goal midway through the second period to account for the eventual game winning goal. A minute and a half later Arnaud Jacquemet scored his fifth of the year. The teams traded power-play goals in the third period, with ...

Tim Kraus scored a goal and added an assist to lead the Vancouver Giants to a 3-0 Western Hockey League victory over the Spokane Chiefs on Friday night. It was the defending WHL champion Giants' 10th victory in 11 games this season. The Giants, listed No. 1 overall in the Canadian Hockey League rankings for the third straight week, atoned for their first loss of the regular season, an overtime setback last Saturday in Seattle. Jonathan Blum and ...

Tyler Ennis scored twice as the Medicine Hat Tigers downed the Portland Winter Hawks 7-4 in Western Hockey League action Friday. Kris Russell, Brennan Bosch, Darren Helm, Jordan Bendfeld and Chris Stevens added one apiece for the Tigers (9-3-0-0). Chris Francis put away two for Portland (3-6-0-0), while Kyle Bailey and Nicholas Hotson had one each. Ryan Holfeld had 33 saves for the win, while Kurtis Mucha stopped 28 at the other end.

Shaun Vey scored a pair of goals - his first of the season - leading the Tri-City Americans to a 4-2 victory over the Prince George Cougars in Western Hockey League action Friday. The Americans (8-2-0-0), who trailed 1-0 after the first period, also got goals from Mike Kaye and Alex Aldred. Ladislav Scurko had two assists and Carey Price 24 saves. Jared Walker and Dan Tyrell scored for the Cougars (4-6-0-2), who have lost three straight. Jordan ...

Matt Schmermund was the fastest scorer in the West on Friday night. The rookie scored two second-period goals five seconds apart to spark the Kamloops Blazers to a 8-5 victory over the Saskatoon Blades in Western Hockey League action. Schmermund's goals, his second and third of the season, tied a WHL record for fastest two goals by the same player. It has been accomplished four other times, most recently by Shayne Toporowski of the Prince Albert Raiders on ...

Ryan Russell scored four goals to help the Kootenay Ice beat the Red Deer Rebels 7-3 in WHL action Wednesday night. Curtis Billsten, Steve DaSilva and Michael Stickland also scored for the Ice. Martin Hanzal, Devon LeBlanc and Luke Betts had goals for the Rebels. Kris Lazaruk stopped 24 of 26 shots for the Ice in two periods of action and Taylor Dakers stopped six of seven shots. Morgan Clark ...

Prince Albert Raiders Matthew Robertson and Ryan DePape scored two goals each to give the Raiders 4-2 a win over the visiting Lethbridge Hurricanes on Wednesday. The win betters the Raiders record in the East Division to 5-5-1-0. Both DePape and Tendler had two assists. Dwight King and Tomas Kudelka each had a goal for the Hurricanes (5-7-1-1). David Aime stopped 17 shots for the Raiders, while Sam Huston and ...

Kevin Undershute had two goals and Matt Keetley made 23 saves as the Medicine Hat Tigers downed the Spokane Chiefs 4-3 in WHL play on Wednesday night. Matt Lowry and Tyler Ennis also scored for the Tigers (8-3-0-0). Chris Bruton, Michael Grabner and David Rutherford scored for the Chiefs (5-3-2-0) The Central Division-leading Tigers handed rookie goalie Dustin Tokarski his first loss of the season, outshooting the Chiefs 41-26, despite ...

Spencer McAvoy and Daniel Rakos scored power-play goals 4:40 apart in the second period as the Swift Current Broncos earned a 4-1 win over the Moose Jaw Warriors on Wednesday night in the WHL. Dale Weise and Kyle Bortis also scored for the Broncos (7-5-0-0), who moved into sole possession of first place in the East Division. Andre Herman had the lone goal for the Warriors (3-6-0-0), last in the ...

Kris Westblom made 29 saves in regulation, and two more in the shootout, as the Kelowna Rockets defeated the Prince George Cougars 4-3 in WHL action Wednesday. Kelowna's Cody Almond and Saulietis each scored in the shootout. Kaspars Saulietis, Kirt Hill and Brett Breitkreuz scored in regulation for the Rockets. Nick Drazenovic, Eric Hunter and Jordie Deagle replied for Prince George, while Real Cyr stopped 14 of 17 shots in ...

Brandon Campos scored twice as the Everett Silvertips counted three goals in the second period on their way to downing the Tri-City Americans 4-1 in Western Hockey League action Tuesday night. Everett entered the match with a one-point lead over the Americans for top spot in the U.S. Division. Following a scoreless first period, Campos put the home side on the board with a power-play goal 2:16 into the second. He added his third goal of the season ...

Justin McCrae scored two goals and added an assist to lead the Saskatoon Blades to a 5-3 victory over the Lethbridge Hurricanes in one of two WHL games on Tuesday night. Michael MacAngus and Brad Cole each contributed a goal and an assist for Saskatoon (4-4-0-1). Chris Cloud also scored for the Blades. Zach Boychuk scored twice for Lethbridge (5-6-1-1), with Kris Hogg adding the other Hurricanes goal. Blades goalie Braden Holtby blocked 37 shots while Justin Leclerc made ...

Arnaud Jacquemet scored a game-winning power-play goal to lead the Kootenay Ice to a 2-1 win over the Prince George Cougars on Sunday in the Western Hockey League. The Ice are 5-0-0-1 in their last six games. Curtis Billsten also scored for the Ice (6-3-0-1). Dana Tyrell replied for Prince George (4-5-0-1). Taylor Dakers made 23 saves for the Ice, while Real Cyr stopped 33 shots for the Cougars.

Rookie Radel Meidl scored an overtime goal and picked up a hat trick to help the Seattle Thunderbirds earn a 4-3 win over the Spokane Chiefs in WHL action Sunday night. Meidl scored two power play goals and Kyle Pess added an even strength goal in the first period to pace the Thunderbirds early, but Spokane rallied back with goals from Derek Ryan, JP Szaszkiewicz and Mitch Wahl to tie ...

Steven Gillen scored twice and added an assist as the Moose Jaw Warriors beat the Regina Pats 5-3 on Sunday in the Western Hockey League. Defenceman Jesse Zetariuk had a goal and four assists for Moose Jaw, while Riley Holzapfel had a goal and three assists and Kenndal McArdle added a goal and an assist. Justin Bernhardt, with two, and Garrett Festerling replied for Regina. Kurt Jory made 39 saves ...

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