Terry Massey lives in Regina and knows his way around computers. Over the years, he has helped me a lot with my blog/website, especially when I was operating with a different host than this one. . . . Like so many of us, he, his wife and their twin boys have been impacted by COVID-19. . . . Terry, for example, is looking for work through all of this, and now everything has been interrupted by two positives tests. . . . Here’s his story; give it a read. . . . And then make sure to get vaccinated.
That’s it for the Medicine Hat Arena. As Collin Gallant of the Medicine Hat News wrote on Friday: “The ice is out, the asphalt is coming up and the Medicine Hat Arena may start coming down this year. Machinery and fencing was delivered to the shuttered facility in the North River Flats as the city begins reworking utility lines in the area as part of a delayed conditional sale announced in 2019 and set to close this summer.” . . . Shouldn’t Bob Ridley get to swing the first sledgehammer or push the plunger or whatever is going to happen when the destruction begins? . . . Gallant’s story is right here.
When the Regina Pats closed out their part of the WHL schedule in the Regina 
hub on April 27, it marked more than the end of a team’s season. It also signalled the end of a career for Phil Andrews, their one-time play-by-play voice who rejoined the team just to call the developmental season’s games. . . . On Friday, in thanking the team and the fans, Andrews revealed that he is joining Athletes in Action at the U of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon.
“It’s been a six-year journey to get here,” he wrote. “I found myself in a tough spot personally in 2015, making some serious mistakes and was left trying to pick up the pieces at home. In that process, I have found God and a faith that has changed my outlook on life. As a result, I have been in search of a career working with people and hopefully allowing my story to make a difference. I am very excited to announce I will be joining the campus staff of Athletes in Action at the U of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. I am really looking forward to this next chapter for myself and my family.”
F Dante Hannoun, now 22, played five seasons (2014-19) in the WHL, spending four-plus seasons with the Victoria Royals and finishing up with 28 regular-season games and a run to a championship with the Prince Albert Raiders. . . . This season, the native of Delta, B.C., played with Sterzing/Vipiteno in the Alps Hockey League. He finished 20th in the scoring race, putting up 49 points, 16 of them goals, in 40 regular-season games. . . . Why am I dropping Hannoun’s name here? Well, during every Vancouver Canucks’ game there is an online 50/50 draw to benefit the Canucks Kids Fund. . . . The Canucks beat the Edmonton Oilers, 6-3, on Thursday night and the draw brought in $121,080, with half of that going to the winner. According to the Canucks’ website that winner is “Dante Hannoun” and he pocketed $60,540. . . . Might it be the WHL’s Dante Hannoun or are there two of them out there? Whoever it is, I hope he’s buying lunch for his pals.
Lacrosse Canada announced Friday that it has cancelled nine 2021 national championships because of the pandemic. From that announcement: “The minor box lacrosse nationals, including the 12U, 14U, 14U girls, 17U and 17U girls National Championships, have been cancelled. The Founders’ Cup Junior B National Championship has been cancelled. As well, the field lacrosse nationals, including the U15 boys’ field, U18 men’s field and the senior men’s field National Championships, have been cancelled for 2021.”
The Vancouver Giants got two goals and two assists from F Tristen Nielsen as 
they scored five times on special teams en route to a 6-2 victory over the Kelowna Rockets in Kamloops on Friday night. . . . Vancouver (11-9-0) had lost its previous two games. . . . Kelowna (8-4-1) has lost three in a row (0-2-1). . . . Nielsen, who turned 21 on Feb. 23, now has 15 goals and 13 assists in 20 games. He scored once on the power play and once while shorthanded, and drew two PP assists. . . . The Giants were 3-for-3 on the PP and 3-for-4 on the PK, while also scoring two shorthanded goals, the eighth and ninth allowed by the Rockets in 13 games. . . . Vancouver scored four second-period goals as it outshot Kelowna 17-5. . . . Nielsen opened the scoring, shorthanded, at 1:52 of the first period. . . . D Tanner Brown (2) made it 2-0 at 5:13 of the second. . . . F Steel Quiring (2) got Kelowna’s first goal at 6:44. . . . Nielsen added a PP goal at 10:10 and F Justin Sourdif then scored twice — on a PP at 10:44 and shorthanded at 14:53. . . . F Adam Hall (7) added another PP goal for the Giants at 9:43 of the third period. . . . D Kaedan Korczak (3) had Kelowna’s second goal, on a PP, at 12:57. . . . Sourdif also had an assist for a three-point outing. . . . In four games with the Rockets, Nielsen and Sourdif have combined for 21 points. Sourdif has four goals and seven assists; Nielsen has five goals and five assist. . . . The Giants got 18 saves from G Trent Miner. . . .
The Seattle Thunderbirds erased a 2-0 second-period deficit with five goals and 
beat the host Tri-City Americans, 5-2. . . . Seattle (9-11-1) has points in three straight (2-0-1). . . . Tri-City (7-10-0) has lost two in a row. . . . F Nick Bowman (4) and F Connor Bouchard (5) had the Americans ahead 2-0 early in the second period. . . . F Jared Davidson, who scored twice and added an assist, got the Seattle comeback started at 5:53 of the second period. . . . F Henry Rybinski tied it with his first of two goals at 7:08. . . . Rybinski (7) gave the Thunderbirds the lead at 9:45 with the club’s first shorthanded goal of the season. . . . F Nico Myatovic (3) upped the lead to 4-2 at 17:46 and Davidson (9) got the empty-netter. . . . Davidson has nine goals and nine assists in 21 games. Last season he had eight goals and eight assists in 59 games. . . . G Scott Ratzlaff, who turned 16 on March 9, stopped 18 shots to earn the victory in his first WHL start. From Irma, Alta., he was a second-round pick in the 2020 bantam draft. . . . The Americans opened up five sections to vaccinated fans and youngsters with proof of negative tests. Unfortunately, they didn’t show an attendance figure on the online game sheet. . . .
The Everett Silvertips outshot visiting Spokane, 45-15, as they skated to a 5-1 
victory over the Chiefs. . . . Everett (18-4-0) has won three in a row. . . . The Chiefs (6-8-5) had points in each of their previous four games (2-0-2). . . . The Silvertips outscored the Chiefs 3-1 in a second period in which they held a 24-4 edge in shots. . . . F Ethan Regnier (7) gave the winners a 1-0 lead at 19:43 of the first period, with F Matthew Ng making it 2-0 with his first WHL goal at 4:12 of the second. . . . Ng, from Cupertino, Calif., was playing in his fourth WHL game. Undrafted, he turned 17 on Jan. 13. . . . F Eli Zummack (9) struck for Spokane, on a PP, at 6:05, but F Cole Fonstad (16) and F Jackson Berezowski (7), on a PP, replied for Everett before the period ended. . . . D Ronan Seeley (5) finished Everett’s scoring at 2:54 of the third period. . . . Everett G Dustin Wolf stopped 13 shots in 55:04, then made way for Evan May to make his WHL debut. May, an undrafted 16-year-old from Nanaimo, stopped the only shot he faced in 4:56.
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Dorothy will be taking part in her eighth Kamloops Kidney Walk, albeit virtually, on June 6. If you would like to be part of her team, you are able to make a donation right here. . . . Thanks in advance for your generosity.
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If you are interested in being a living kidney donor, more information is available here:
Living Kidney Donor Program
St. Paul’s Hospital
6A Providence Building
1081 Burrard Street
Vancouver, BC V6Z 1Y6
Tel: 604-806-9027
Toll free: 1-877-922-9822
Fax: 604-806-9873
Email: donornurse@providencehealth.bc.ca
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Vancouver General Hospital Living Donor Program – Kidney
Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre
Level 5, 2775 Laurel Street
Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9
604-875-5182 or 1-855-875-5182
kidneydonornurse@vch.ca
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