The Western Canada Professional Hockey Scouts Foundation will hold its second annual Wall of Honour induction dinner in Okotoks on July 29. This time, we will salute 29 past and present-day scouts during an evening that is being billed as A Night With the Sutters. Yes, members of the hockey-playing Sutter family will be on hand to take part in a hot stove session or two. Tickets for the dinner are available at tickets.hockeyscoutsfoundation.com. . . . As dinner time approaches, we are highlighting the Class of 2025. This time, we would like to introduce you to Tom McVie.
TOM McVIE
(June 6, 1935 — Jan. 19, 2025)
Born in Trail, B.C., he was long-time player and coach who didn’t go scouting until he was in his 60s. . . . Joined the Boston Bruins’ pro scouting staff in 1998 and worked through 2019-20. Won a Stanley Cup with the 2010-11 Bruins. . . . Got into 1,072 games over 18 seasons during his pro playing career, mostly in the WHL with the Seattle Totems, Portland Buckaroos, Los Angeles Blades and Phoenix Roadrunners. Also played in the EHL and IHL, retiring after 1973-74. . . . Coaching career that lasted 27 seasons began in 1971-72 as player/coach of the IHL’s Fort Wayne Komets. . . . Was NHL head coach with the Washington Capitals, New Jersey Devils and Boston. . . . Won the 1978-79 WHA championship (Avco Cup) as head coach of the Winnipeg Jets. . . . Was one of the game’s great storytellers.
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The Wit and Wisdom of Tom McVie
Tom McVie was a rink rat, a hockey lifer, and he was proud of it.
Once asked what he might be doing if he wasn’t coaching, McVie replied: “If I wasn’t coaching hockey, then I’d probably be driving the Zamboni.”
McVie, who will be inducted into the Western Canada Professional Hockey Scouts Foundation’s Wall of Honour on July 29 in Okotoks, Alta., died in Camas, Wash., on Jan. 19. He was 89.
(Tickets for the dinner — the evening will include a Hot Stove session or two involving members of the hockey-playing Sutter family — are available at tickets.hockeyscoutsfoundation.com.)
Camas is located across the Columbia River from Portland and became McVie’s adopted hometown following his retirement as a player.
He spent 14 seasons playing in the WHL, splitting time with the Portland Buckaroos, Los Angeles Blades, Seattle Totems and Phoenix Roadrunners.
McVie and the Totems won a WHL title in 1958-59, as he played on a line with Guyle Fielder, now 94, and Jim Powers, 89.
As Powers told Geoff Baker, the Seattle Kraken’s vice-president, editorial: “I don’t think there was a joke that he ever forgot. And he would keep repeating them from time to time.”
Indeed!
After ending his playing career, McVie coached from 1973-74 through 1997-98, making stops with the IHL-Dayton Gems, NHL-Washington Capitals, WHA-Winnipeg Jets, NHL-Jets, CHL-Oklahoma City Stars, AHL-Maine Mariners, NHL-New Jersey Devils, AHL-Utica Devils, NHL-Boston Bruins, ECHL-Wheeling Nailers and AHL-Providence Bruins.
After being fired by the NHL-Jets, McVie was quoted as saying: “I’ve been fired more times than General Custer’s pistol at the Little Big Horn.”
Later, after being fired by the New Jersey Devils, he said: “I’ve been fired more times than Clint Eastwood’s Magnum.”
By now you may have guessed that McVie knew his way around one-liners and also could tell a story. In fact, he was recognized throughout the hockey world as one of the game’s great story-tellers.
Here then is a look at some of those stories . . .
Former NHL D Rick Green was a rookie with the McVie-coached Washington Capitals in 1976.
“Tommy was the first man I ever knew who could put two pucks in his mouth at the same time,” Green told nhl.com following news of McVie’s passing. “That’s a talent. I guess his nickname was ‘The Clown’ back in the day when he played in the International league, so you needed a sense of humor back then.
“Someone told me about the puck trick so I went up to him and told him I didn’t believe it. Tommy just took his teeth out, grabbed two pucks and in they went.”
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In October 1992, McVie talked luggage with Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe, explaining how he used one Samsonite suitcase for 32 years:
“My first two years of pro hockey, I never had a piece of luggage. I was playing for Seattle — Keith Allen was the general manager — and I got hurt in Calgary on a trip that was going to Edmonton. Well, they decide to send me home, and Allen takes my meal money; that’s the way it worked — no play, no meal money.
“Like I say, I never had a suitcase. Those first two years, I threw what I needed into a bag with Les Hunt — he played in the Detroit organization. I’ll never forget, I’m standing on this train platform in Calgary, and Les just hands me my clothes. They’re going on, and I’m going home. My clothes, all over the platform. I had to go get a paper bag and throw all my stuff in it.”
Upon being traded to Portland in 1961, McVie was given monogrammed luggage, which he still was using in 1992.
“I vowed that day, wherever I go, it goes,” McVie told Dupont. “It’s sort of a conversation piece, I guess. In 36 years of pro hockey, I’ll bet that I’ve received 20 sets of luggage, and I’ve given them all away — every one of them.”
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Paul Friesen of the Winnipeg Sun remembers chatting with McVie about Dec. 15, 1979, the night of the Montreal Canadiens’ first visit to Winnipeg to face the Jets.
McVie was the Jets’ head coach and Bobby Hull was scheduled to play until he showed up late for the pre-game warmup, the game time having been moved for TV reasons.
Well, McVie had a rule about being on time; Hull was in violation of said rule so was scratched.
“He was mad . . . he pulled his tie off – I thought we were gonna go at it,” McVie told Friesen. “Out the (bleeping) door he went.”
And in came general manager John Ferguson.
“It’s not lit, but he’s got a cigar in his mouth,” McVie recalled. “His (bleeping) face is like tomato juice. He casually says to me, ‘Where’s Hull?’ I said, ‘Oh (bleep), he came in late so I told him he wasn’t playin.’ He said, ‘Hey, quit (bleeping) around. Where is he?’ I said, ‘I guess you didn’t hear me. I said he (bleeping) came in late and I told him he can’t (bleeping) play.’ ”
Ferguson reminded McVie that it was Hall of Fame night with a number of locals being honoured.
To which McVie replied: “I don’t give a (bleep) if I’m gettin’ an award. He ain’t (bleeping) playin’.”
What about the fact the game was being televised from coast-to-coast-to-coast as Hockey Night in Canada visited Winnipeg for the first time?
McVie told Ferguson: “I don’t give a (bleep) if it’s shown right around the world. He ain’t (bleeping) playin.’ ”
On his way out, Ferguson kicked at a door.
“And it’s one of those wooden, hollow doors,” McVie said. “His foot goes right through the (bleeping) door and comes out the other side. And now he can’t get his leg out, and he’s (bleeping) hopping around . . . he just goes (bleeping) crazy.
“And now he (bleeping) kicks the door again and he (bleeping) walks out and he’s (bleeping) red. And he comes back and he says, ‘OK, I’m (bleeping) leaving. But I’m going to ask you one more (bleeping) thing.’ I said, what’s that? He says, ‘Do you know he’s one of the (bleeping) owners of this (bleeping) team?’
“I said, ‘Well, geez, I didn’t know that.’ ”
Still, Hull didn’t play, and the Jets won, 6-2.
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In his conversation with Friesen, McVie also recalled a time in the early 1960s when Portland Buckaroos coach Hal Laycoe called a noon team meeting for poolside at a Los Angeles hotel.
“I used to be a springboard diving champ,” McVie said. “So I’m on top of the hotel. He’s walking around, and I’m the only guy not there. He’s looking at his watch . . . the guys are sitting on the deck chairs. They know I’m (bleeping) up there. But he don’t know. With about a minute to (bleeping) noon, off the building I go. With all my clothes on. I hit the (bleeping) pool . . . and just scared the sh– out of him. And then up I come out of the (bleeping) water with all my clothes on and I sat down on the deck chair and said, ‘Well, I’m on time.’
“The (bleeping) team, they were literally laying on the (bleeping) deck, howling.”
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“I never leave a job until I’m fired,” he said at one time. “It could happen any day. I’ve been fired seven times.
“One day, a guy’s interviewing me and he says, ‘I’m looking at your bio as a player and it says you were traded five times. And it says you’ve been fired seven times as a coach.’ He says to me, ‘You ever thought of quitting?’ I said, ‘Hell, no, hockey’s the only thing I’m good at.’ ’’
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There also was this version of that anecdote, as told to The Athletic in 2018:
“This writer, a young fellow, comes along and I’ve never seen him before. He was carrying a recorder, comes in and sticks the microphone in the face and asked, ‘Are you Tom McVie?’ Like, who doesn’t know who I am? Everyone knows who I am (laughter). So, I said, ‘Yeah.’ He said, ‘Well, let me ask you something. Are you the Tom McVie that coached the Washington Capitals and they set a league record for losing games?’ I said, ‘Yes. I’m Tom McVie.’ He said, ‘Are you the Tom McVie that coached the Winnipeg Jets and you broke that losing record? Now, you’re coaching the New Jersey Devils and you’re in danger of setting a new losing record?’ I said, ‘Yeah.’
“He said, ‘Did you ever think of quitting?’ And I said, ‘F–k, no. This is the only thing I’m really good at.’ ”
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Even as he turned 80, McVie didn’t mind the travel involved with scouting.
“Are you kidding? Gets me out of the house,” he said. “I can’t stay home. My late wife used to say, ‘You love hockey more than you love me.’ I said, ‘Yeah, but I love you more than I love baseball.’ ’’
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There was a time, when he was coaching the New Jersey Devils’ AHL affiliate in Portland, Me., when home was a hotel room.
“Believe it or not,” he recalled, “I lived in the Holiday Inn, Room 424 in Portland, Maine, for five years when I was coaching there. When I coached the Jets in Winnipeg, I lived at the Viscount Gort for two years. Room 200. That’s seven years I spent in a hotel room.”
Jim Matheson of the Edmonton Journal asked: “Why didn’t you get an apartment?”
McVie’s response: “Why bother. I used to say, ‘If you fire me, I can have my stuff from my hotel room and be out of town in 30 minutes, unless I have stuff at the cleaners. Then maybe it’s an hour, and I’m gone’.”
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Courtesy of Matheson, here’s a McVie story from a time when he was coaching the Devils . . .
“One day Bob Butera, president of the team, comes into the dressing room and asks who this guy helping out (trainer) Keith Parker is. Parker says, ‘his name’s Norman Bates . . . says he’s just working training camp. Says he doesn’t really need the job. Says he owns a motel with his mother outside of town.
“Next day, Mr. (John) McMullen, the owner, comes up and sees the guy go by him and asks Bob Butera who the new guy is. Butera says ‘He’s, uh, Norman Bates. He and his mother own a motel outside of town.’ Mr. McMullen says, ‘Are you bleeping crazy?’ A week later Butera, who was an attorney, was gone, and here comes Lou Lamoriello in (as president).
“Hockey wasn’t Butera’s business.”
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Through all the stories and the jokes, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that McVie influenced a lot of young men during his well-lived life. Yes, he really was more, a lot more, than a jokester.
Tim Lenardon, the Foundation’s co-ordinator, will be inducted into the Wall of Honour alongside McVie in July. Lenardon played for McVie with the AHL’s Utica Devils.
“Tommy was a great person and a great coach,” Lenardon said. “He knew how to get the best out of everyone. He was like a second dad to me . . . hard but fair.”
Lenardon recalls a couple of times when he was on the receiving end of coaching tips from McVie: “Hey, Kid, you gotta shoot the (bleeping) puck more . . . and when you shoot hit the damn net” and “Don’t go offside for F sakes; it’s like back-checking for the other team.”
Eric Weinrich, a defenceman who played 1,157 NHL regular-season games, began his pro career under McVie with Utica in 1988-89. All these years later, Weinrich would leave this message on McVie’s obituary:
“Tommy was one person who changed my life and career as a player. He taught me about being a professional and a good teammate. I wouldn’t have been the player or person I am today without his mentorship and guidance. I will miss him and his friendship dearly.”
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period goals in a span of 4:17 — F Ben King was in on all of them — en route to a 5-2 victory over the Saskatoon Blades. . . . The Rebels, who won 3-1 in Saskatoon on Friday, lead the series, 2-0. . . . The series now heads to Red Deer for games on Tuesday and Wednesday. . . . King (4) opened the scoring, on a PP, at 7:53 of the second period, with D Christoffer Sedoff (4) and F Jhett Larson (3) adding goals at 9:42 and 12:10. . . . King assisted on both of those goals and added another helper on a third-period goal from F Jayden Grubbe (2). . . . F Carson Birnie (1) also scored for Red Deer. . . . F Brandon Lisowsky (2) and D Charlie Wright (2) had third-period PP goals for Saskatoon. . . . Grubbe and Larson had a pair of assists each. . . . Red Deer had a 20-16 edge in shots, including 11-4 in the second period. . . . Saskatoon F Tyler Parr played in his second straight game after missing 48 with an undisclosed injury. . . . Blades F Josh Pillar, who turned 21 on Feb. 14, was back after missing Game 1, but D Blake Gustafson, another 2002-born player, was scratched again. . . . Red Deer’s scratches included D Marek Schneider, who turned 20 on Feb. 5, for a second straight game.
Saturday in a game that, if you’re a Victoria fan, ended in bizarre fashion. If you are a Giants’ supporter, well, you must have loved it.
Centre — on Sunday and won their second game in a row for the first time this season, beating the Kamloops Blazers, 6-3. . . . Each team was playing for the third time in fewer than 48 hours; the Giants were playing their fourth game in fewer than 96 hours. . . . Vancouver (3-5-3) also is taking its show on the road. The Giants will play six games in the Central Division, starting Thursday night against the Edmonton Oil Kings — and two against the Prince George Cougars before next playing at home against Kamloops on Nov. 18.
Hitmen on Sunday. Fiddler-Schultz, the team captain, struck for five goals, four of them in the first period, in leading the Hitmen to a 6-1 victory. . . . Fiddler-Schultz tied F Pavel Brendl’s franchise record for most goals in one game. Brendl scored five in an 8-2 victory over the visiting Raiders on Nov. 11, 2000. . . . Fiddler-Schultz’s four first-period goals tied Brendl and F Owen Fussey for most goals in a period. Brendl scored four third-period goals in a 5-2 victory over the Warriors in Moose Jaw on Oct. 18, 2000; Fussey had four in the third period of a 7-3 victory over the visiting Lethbridge Hurricanes on Feb. 6, 2002. . . . Geoffrey Brandow (@GeoffreyBrandow) also tweeted that Fiddler-Schultz, who had gone six games without a goal, now has had one three-goal game, a four-game and this five-goal effort during his career. Brandow also noted that Fiddler-Schultz set a franchise record for fastest three goals (2:43) — F Michael Bubnick held the previous record (6:48) from a 5-3 less to the visiting Red Deer Rebels on Jan. 13, 2002. . . . 
ally . . . returned to the supposedly friendly confines of Rogers Arena. And this one had it all. It had the road team opening the scoring with a fluky power-play goal. A gentleman wearing a retro Canucks jersey and a paper bag on his head, posing for photos with other fans in his section. The fans booed during play as the game twisted away from Vancouver. They booed as the Sabres top line cycled the puck endlessly in the Vancouver end. They booed the Canucks on the power play. They even booed ‘Sweet Caroline.’ ”
Tuesday, F Zac Rinaldo’s name was nowhere to be found even though they had signed him as a free agent to a two-way contract last month — US$750,000 in the NHL, $275,000 in the AHL. . . . John Davidson, the Blue Jackets’ president of hockey operations, explained that Rinaldo “is not vaccinated and because of that — and that’s his decision — the plan is to start him in the American Hockey League and he will not be coming to our training camp.” . . . And wouldn’t you love to know what the other players in the Cleveland Monsters’ camp think about that? . . . Rinaldo, 31, was pointless in five games with the Calgary Flames last season. . . . Davidson also said: “When you read the amount of players, the percentage that have been vaccinated, it’s a big, big number. There’s very few who aren’t, and that’s their own personal choice. I’m not going to sit here and tell them what to do, even though I’d like to see the whole world get vaccinated. My daughter’s a doctor. She believes in this, and I believe in her because she’s a whole lot smarter than I am. I’d like to see the whole world get vaccinated. We have a responsibility as the leaders of the organization. We want our people vaccinated. We want them wearing masks as much as possible.” . . . Earlier this month, the Blue Jackets dumped assistant coach Sylvain Lefebvre after he chose not to get vaccinated. . . . It’s interesting, too, that the Blue Jackets’ training camp is presented by Ohio Health, which bills itself as “a family of not-for-profit, faith-based hospitals & healthcare organizations.” . . . 
per cent of the Seattle Kraken’s players are fully vaccinated “even though general manager Ron Francis said he wasn’t authorized to comment.” . . . In an interesting piece, Baker writes: “Given our city’s dark history with pandemics and hockey, it’s a relief to see Kraken players aren’t testing the resolve of both the team and most of the local community. With the 1919 Stanley Cup final in Seattle still the lone major sports championship ever canceled by a pandemic that also killed some players and maybe coaches as well, it’s good to see the league and Players’ Association getting tough about vaccine compliance.” . . . Baker’s piece, which is well worth a read, is 
Thunderbirds, has been traded to the Red Deer Rebels for a second-round selection in the WHL’s 2021 draft.
lineup for 2021-22. He was the team’s rookie of the year for 2019-20 after putting up 13 goals and 23 assists in 51 games. . . . Gut, who will turn 19 on Aug. 16, stayed home for 2020-21 and played with HC Banik Sokolov in the Czech2. He finished with 10 goals and 11 assists in 20 games. . . . The Silvertips now have their two imports in Gut and Finnish F Niko Huuhtanen, who was selected by the Tampa Bay Lightning in last weekend’s NHL draft.
the Tokyo Olympics after testing positive. Kendricks, 28, had won a bronze medal at the 2016 Games. . . . Another pole vaulter, German Chiaraviglio of Argentina, also has tested positive and has been ruled out of the Games. . . . Organizers revealed 24 new positives on Thursday among Olympic personnel, with three of those being athletes. At that point, six American athletes had tested positive. . . . There’s more on the Kendricks story 
Prince George, from March 19-27. The event was to have been held there in 2020 but was cancelled as the pandemic was just getting started. . . . The 2021 championship was decided in a bubble in Calgary. . . . The 2022 event will be held at the CN Centre, the home of the WHL’s Cougars. This means that the Cougars will finish the 2021-22 WHL regular season by playing seven of their last eight games on the road. . . . After entertaining the Victoria Royals on March 11 and 12, the Cougars will hit the road for four games — yes, four in a row — in Victoria on March 18, 19, 25 and 26, and singles against
Kelowna Rockets, so now is a free agent. He got into eight games in the 2021 development season, going 4-2-1, 3.86, .876. . . . Basran, from Vancouver, played 120 games over four seasons with the Rockets, finishing 52-41-11, 2.90, .905. He also put up five shutouts. . . . The Rockets finished that 2021 season with seven other 2001-born players on their roster — D Tyson Feist, D Jake Lee, D Kaedan Korczak, F Mark Liwiski, G Cole Schwebius, F Alex Swetlikoff and F Dallon Wilton. . . . That same roster also included two other goaltenders — Nicholas Cristiano, who will be 17 on Sept. 3, and Cole Tisdale, 19.
Gervais, who will turn 20 on Nov. 4, wrote on his Instagram account on Wednesday: “Thank you for making my dreams of playing in the WHL come true. #RoseCityForever.” . . . From Kamsack, Sask., he was a ninth-round pick in the WHL’s 2016 bantam draft. . . . He had eight goals and nine assists in 31 games in 2019-20, then added a goal and an assist in 19 games in the 2021 development season. . . . The roster with which Portland finished the season contained six more 2001-born players — Danish D Jonas Brondberg, F Jaydon Dureau, G Brock Gould, D Clay Hanus, F Reece Newkirk and D Kade Nolan. . . . 
to place a player on the COVID-19 protocol list. However, it seems the virus has found the Flames.
the Drumheller Dragons cohort,” so team activities have been suspended. . . . The Dragons were to have played the Okotoks Oilers on Saturday and Sunday, but those games have been “cancelled.” . . . Drumheller hasn’t played since April 3. . . . Okotoks last played on March 28. It was to have played the Calgary Canucks on April 2 and the Brooks Bandits on April 4 but both games were cancelled.
François Larochelle of the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies was evicted from the “protected environment” in Victoriaville for being in violation of COVID-19 protocol. The Huskies also were fined $5,000. . . . According to the league, “Support staff from within the protected environment have been found to replace them.” . . . The Huskies were in Victoriaville to open a first-round playoff series against the Tigres.
test, scored four times in a span of 3:11 in the first period and went to a 6-3 victory over the visiting Lethbridge Hurricanes. . . . F Josh Prokop (7), F Cael Zimmerman (4) and two from F Adam Kydd gave Calgary a 4-0 lead before the game was 11 minutes old. . . . Kydd has six goals in 15 games; last season, he finished with six goals in 53 games. . . . The Hurricanes bounced back with three second-period goals. The first two came from D Alex Cotton (7) and F Dino Kambeitz (5) added a shorthanded score. . . . F Brandon Whynott (1) restored Calgary’s two-goal lead at 19:03 of the second period, and F Riley Stotts (4) got the empty-netter at 19:58 of the third. . . . Whynott, a second-round pick in the 2019 bantam draft, scored his first WHL goal in his 14th game. . . . The Hitmen (7-6-2) have points in three straight (2-0-1). . . . The Hurricanes (7-9-2) have lost two in a row. . . . 
Saskatoon Blades. . . . The Ice (16-5-1) has points in five straight (4-0-1). It moved into second in the Regina hub standings, two points ahead of Saskatoon and one behind the idle Brandon Wheat Kings. . . . Saskatoon (14-5-3) has lost four in a row (0-3-1). . . . The Wheat Kings have three games remaining, with the Ice and Blades each having two more. . . . The Ice scored the game’s first four goals. . . . Pederson got it started at 6:05 of the first period. . . . D Mike Ladyman (2) added another at 11:00, with F Connor McLennon (14) making it 3-0 at 14:32 of the second. . . . Pederson, who has 13 goals, got his second at 5:40 of the third. . . . F Alex Morozoff (2) scored for Saskatoon at 12:49. . . . Pederson has 30 points in 22 games. . . . McLennon also had two assists. He now has 33 points, including 19 assists, in 22 games. . . . Winnipeg F Peyton Krebs had two assists to run his point streak to 21 games. He now shares the Ice’s franchise record for longest such streak with F Mike Comrie, who did it in 2000-01 with the Kootenay Ice (hey, remember when Cranbrook had a WHL team?). . . . F Karter Prosofsky had an assist for the Ice. Les Lazaruk, the veteran radio voice of the Blades, reports that Karter is the “son of Tyler, former Tacoma/Kelowna Rockets forward, also nephew to F Garrett Prosofsky,” who played with the Blades, Prince Albert Raiders and Portland Winterhawks. . . . 
to a 4-1 victory over the Moose Jaw Warriors. . . . F Cole Dubinsky gave the Pats (9-10-3) a 1-0 lead, on a PP, at 8:02 of the first period. . . . They broke it open in the second when D Layton Feist (5) scored, on a PP, at 15:30, and F Drew Englot make it 3-0 at 15:43. . . . F Zack Smith (4) scored while shorthanded for a 4-0 lead at 3:15 of the third period. . . . The Warriors (8-12-2) got their goal from D Cory King (2) at 12:46 of the third. . . . Regina D Ryker Evans ran his point streak to 12 games with an assist. He has two goals and 14 assists over that stretch. . . . The Pats were designated as the visitors for this game in the Regina hub. They are 3-5-3 as the home team and 6-5-0 as the visitors. . . .
beat the Victoria Royals, 3-2. . . . Kamloops (10-2-0) has won three straight. . . . Victoria (1-11-1) has lost eight in a row. . . . F Brayden Schuurman (4) gave the Royals a 1-0 lead at 12:50 of the second period. . . . F Matthew Seminoff (6) got the Blazers even 36 seconds into the third. . . . F Connor Zary (5), at 12:57, and F Fraser Minten (1), at 16:25, stretched the lead to 3-1. . . . Zary had served 16 minutes in penalties — three minors and a misconduct — earlier in the game. . . . F Brandon Cutler (5) got the Royals within a goal while on a PP at 18:20. . . . Minten’s first WHL goal came in his 10th game — he has six assists — and stood up as the winner. He was a fourth-round selection in the 2019 bantam draft. . . . 
Comets since 2013-14. Now there is ample speculation that the Canucks will be moving their AHL franchise, with the New Jersey Devils taking their AHL affiliate from Binghamton, N.Y., to Utica.
victory over the Saskatoon Blades in the Regina hub. . . . Paddock has two shutouts this season and nine in his career. . . . This season, Paddock, 20, is 7-6-0, 2.65, .909. . . . The Raiders got first-period goals from F Ozzy Wiesblatt (5) and D Terrell Goldsmith (1), a second-period score from F Landon Kosior (3) and a third-period goal from F Justin Nachbaur (7). . . . Goldsmith, the 15th overall selection in the 2020 bantam draft, got his first goal — and first point — in his 11th game. The native of Fort St. James, B.C., turns 16 on May 13. . . . The Raiders (8-10-3) had lost their previous two games. . . . The Blades (14-4-3) have lost three in a row (0-2-1). . . . 
Broncos skated to a 4-2 victory over the Regina Pats. . . . Wyrostok’s winner, at 8:04, was his fifth goal of the season. . . . F Aiden Bulych (6) got the empty-netter, with his brother, Kaleb, getting the lone assist. . . . F Michael Farren gave the Broncos a 1-0 lead at 18:41 of the first period. . . . The Pats took a 2-1 lead on second-period goals from F Logan Nijhoff (10) and F Carson Denomie (14), both via the PP. . . . Farren’s second goal of the game and ninth of the season, also on the PP, tied it at 18:18. . . . The Broncos got 31 saves from G Reid Dyck. . . . D Ryker Evans had one assist for the Pats as he ran his point streak to 11 games. . . . Swift Current (5-16-1) had lost its previous two games. . . . Regina (8-10-3) had won its previous two games. . . . 
Josh Williams had a goal and two assists as the Edmonton Oil Kings beat the visiting Medicine Hat Tigers, 3-0. . . . Cossa turned aside 30 shots in recording his third shutout in 14 appearances this season and the seventh of his career. He is 13-0-1, 1.49, .944 and almost certainly will be a first-round selection in the NHL’s 2021 draft. . . . The Oil Kings (15-1-1) have points in seven straight (6-0-1). . . . The Tigers (12-4-1) had points in each of their previous nine games (8-0-1). . . . Edmonton held a 52-30 edge in shots. . . . The Tigers got 49 saves from G Garin Bjorklund. . . . Neighbours, who has eight goals, opened the scoring at 5:18 of the first period and Williams (10) made it 2-0 at 13:21. . . . Neighbours got his second goal at 1:46 of the third. . . . Williams, who turned 20 on March 8, has 21 points in 16 games. . . . Neighbours, who turned 19 on March 29, has 28 points in 16 games. . . . 
Thursday just days after he had completed his second season in the position. The Mooseheads were 15-19-9 this season, leaving Daigneault with a two-season record of 35-67-14. . . . In a news release, majority owner Bobby Smith said: “The past two years have been rebuilding seasons for our club after playing in the 2019 Memorial Cup final and this past season we had the youngest team in the QMJHL. Over the course of a trying 2020-21 season our young players developed tremendously and for this Coach Daigneault deserves much credit.” . . . That may be so, but it obviously wasn’t enough to save the man’s job. . . . Daigneault, 55, a longtime NHL defenceman in his playing days, spent six seasons as an assistant coach with the Montreal Canadiens and one with the AHL’s San Antonio Rampage before taking over as head coach in Halifax. . . . While searching for a new head coach, the Mooseheads also announced that assistant coaches Jon Greenwood and Sylvain Favreau, and goaltender coach Joey Perricone have been retained. Perricone is a former WHL goaltender (Moose Jaw Warriors, 2003-08).
team have been released for the remainder of the season for a racial-taunting incident in which the squad’s lone Black player alleged he was called a racial slur and had a banana waved in front of him.
Current Broncos, 6-5 in OT, in the Regina hub. . . . F Tristen Robins got the winner just 29 seconds into OT. That was his second goal of the game and fifth of the season. . . . Saskatoon D Aidan De La Gorgendiere had tied the scored with 42.8 seconds left in the third period. . . . F Josh Filmon’s first WHL goal gave the Broncos (1-5-1) a 5-3 lead at 12:01 of the third period. . . . F Blake Stevenson scored for Saskatoon at 16:31. . . . G Nolan Maier picked up his 84th career victory and now is one away from the franchise’s career record (Tim Cheveldae, 1985-88). Cheveldae spent six seasons (2013-19) as the Blades’ goaltending coach. . . . The Blades now are 6-0-1. Les Lazaruk, the long-time radio voice of the Blades, reports that the franchise’s best seven-game start (6-0-1, with the 1 being a tie) came in 1985-86. The 1975-76 Blades, Lazaruk tweeted, won their first six games before dropping a 7-3 decision to the Kamloops Chiefs.
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