January 10-Trade Deadline Deal

LAST NIGHT's ACTION

Medicine Hat 7 Swift Current 1

This game was to have been played Saturday but was cancelled because of road conditions and weather. Linden Vey had a goal and four assists and is now a point behind Brendan Ranford of the Kamloops Blazers for the league scoring lead.

Chilliwack 5 Seattle 4 (final in overtime)

Portland 5 Everett 4 (final in the shootout)

NO GAMES TONIGHT DUE TO THE TRADE DEADLINE

TOMORROW NIGHT

Brandon @ Saskatoon

Seattle @ Tri-City

Prince George @ Vancouver

Trade Deadline

A lot of ink has been spilled and thumbs working overtime on what is going to occur by 3pm Calgary time today with the WHL trade deadline.

Kootenay pulled a blockbuster trade with Swift Current to acquire Cody Eakin sending a total of 8 players and picks to Swift Current for the former Team Canada star and third round pick. Gregg Drinnan has a great breakdown of the deal as well as several others that occurred over the weekend on his blog Taking Note click here.

Brandon and Saskatoon have been back and forth about the Brayden Schenn sweepstakes. There has been much speculation and conjecture about if Schenn would be staying home in Saskatoon to finish what should be his final season in the WHL. The twitterverse was alive and well on Sunday night with some speculation including jokes that the Blades had sent team mascot Poke Check until a staff member pointed out the mascot had a no trade clause.

This tweet just landed from Cory Wolfe of the Star Phoenix "#SaskatoonBlades press conference in 13 minutes. Brayden Schenn is in the building. #WHL" Everyone was speculating if this deal will occur until the Blades called a 2pm press conference today. Which knowing the frequency that they call pressers it seems a lock that they have landed the hometown Team Canada star.

Regardless of the Eakin and if Schenn has been dealt to Saskatoon neither player will have an immediate effect on their future teams as they cam back from the World Juniors injured. The timetable for each is a minimum of two weeks possibly longer with Schenn's shoulder injury.

Two hours until the deadline and we will tweet and keep things updated as much as possible. As well a breakdown of the NHL Central Scouting Rankings which really do not mean a lot until you get to compare them on draft day in the NHL...

KAMLOOPS

Tomorrow the WHL, Kamloops Blazers and Kamloops Daily News meet to resolve or continue the situation where the Blazers have banned access Blazers personnel & players to Sports Editor Gregg Drinnan. This should have been resolved long before this but for some reason it has continued to this date.