Bud Holloway – TAKING NOTE

Nice work @ChadBrownlee . He ordered a free swab kit online at https://t.co/18dIrzsIJz & @CanadasLifeline shipped it right to his door. Find out if you’re eligible to join the #stemcell registry here: https://t.co/HARR9T3x5L @oklifestyle @CCMAofficial #HockeyGivesBlood pic.twitter.com/6NTr3aSz05

— Hockey Gives Blood (@hkygivesblood) June 7, 2019

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F Filip Ahl (Regina, 2016-17) has signed a one-year contract with Karlskoga (Sweden, Allsvenskan). This season, with Tingsryd (Sweden, Allsvenskan), he had 11 goals and nine assists in 42 games. . . .

F Bud Holloway (Seattle, 2003-08) has signed a one-year contract with Red Bull Salzburg (Austria, Erste Bank Liga). This season, with Skellefteå (Sweden, SHL), he had 11 goals and 15 assists in 52 games.

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The Prince George Cougars and the City of Prince George have agreed to a six-year lease PrinceGeorge agreement for the CN Centre. The lease is retroactive to July 31, so it covers the recently completed season, and will run through the 2023-24 WHL season. . . . With the Kootenay Ice having left Cranbrook for Winnipeg, there had been whispers that perhaps the Cougars, who have struggled to draw fans in recent seasons, might at least contemplate a move. . . . Here’s Andy Beesley, the Cougars’ vice-president of business: “We’ve never wavered once, behind closed doors or out in public, we’ve never talked about moving, we’re all in it for the long haul, from our owners on down, we’re committed to Prince George and we don’t just talk about being committed, we’ve proven it.” . . . Ted Clarke of the Prince George Citizen has more right here.

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I didn’t watch any of the St. Louis Blues’ 2-1 victory over the Bruins in Boston on Thursday night. But I’m thinking that things didn’t go swimmingly, again, for the NHL. . . .

Officiating nothing short of embarrassing. I’m all for hard physical hockey within the rules but this has gotten ridiculous. This isn’t hockey. It’s who can injure who and run the other team out of the rink first. It’s not even hockey anymore.

— Corey Hirsch (@CoreyHirsch) June 7, 2019

Score of Game 5 early in the second period: St. Louis 1, Boston 0. Score of Game 5 in Elbows to the Head with the Referee Standing There Watching: St. Louis 2, Boston 0.

— Ken Campbell (@THNKenCampbell) June 7, 2019

Cam Neely seems upset pic.twitter.com/gFXmteE51w

— Mike Darnay (@MikeDarnay) June 7, 2019

"I'm a fan of the game. This is the National Hockey League, it's getting a black eye with their officiating this playoffs…it was egregious."

🎥 Bruce Cassidy reacts following the #NHLBruins' Game 5 loss: pic.twitter.com/iyLxzCJTFo

— Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) June 7, 2019

This was sent to me from the stands – this fight escalates … all between Bruins fans. pic.twitter.com/XPHEwdEBVF

— Benjamin Hochman (@hochman) June 7, 2019

Jon Goyens is the new head coach of the QMJHL’s Baie-Comeau Drakkar. Goyens, 41, spent 10 seasons as the head coach of the midget AAA Lac St-Louis Lions. . . . Goyens signed a two-year contract that contains a club option on a third season. . . . Before taking over the Lions, he spent a season with the QMJHL’s Lewiston Maineiacs as an assistant coach/video coach. . . . With the Drakkar, Goyens takes over from Martin Bernard, whose contract wasn’t renewed after their season ended.

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Prices went up $500 during the game. The CHEAPEST ticket on StubHub to get into Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final in St Louis, where the Blues can win it all for the first time, is now $2,377.11!

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) June 7, 2019