January 9

Sometimes life and mother nature get in the way of updating a blog...

KAMLOOPS

This siege has not ended and Gregg Drinnan is still banned from speaking with anyone associated with the Kamloops Blazers and this story has now appeared on Spike TV's website and Fark.Com The WHL continues to allow this to happen and continues to be dragged through the mud...

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Medicine Hat and Swift Current will face each other tonight instead of last night because of weather conditions and road concerns. The weather has really affected southern Alberta with a below seasonal temperature and sever snowfall warnings in many areas. Having driven through many an Alberta blizzard it is best they did put the game of until 6pm Medicine Hat time.

The action last night in the WHL seemed like a goalies night off as five teams scored more than five goals in their contests.

TRADE DEADLINE

Action is already heating up and we will see what this year's trade deadline holds. Many are speculating that Brayden Schenn could end up in his hometown of Saskatoon to finish his career as a Blade and much more. We will try and follow the trade circus as it occurs and post what we find out and have some in depth analysis after the conclusion of silly season.

TONIGHT

Swift Current @ Medicine Hat

Seattle @ Chilliwack

Everett @ Portland

LAST NIGHT

Edmonton 7 Regina 1

Kelowna 8 Kamloops 1

Red Deer 6 Kootenay 1

Portland 2 Seattle 1

Prince Albert 3 Brandon 2 Final SO

Prince George 7 Vancouver 5

Spokane 4 Everett 2

Tri-City 9 Lethbridge 4

Happy New Year

Things are starting to settle down now in the league now that we are out of the holiday season, the hockey tournaments in Winnipeg for the Under 17s and Buffalo for the World Juniors are drawing to a close.

The results in Winnipeg mean that some Dub teams will get some more players back immediately with more to follow from Buffalo after the final two games tomorrow. All of the relegation games will be completed today which means the following players could be rejoining their teams as early as tomorrow:

Antonin HONEJSEK, Moose Jaw Warriors

Roman HORAK, Chilliwack Bruins

Marek HRBAS, Edmonton Oil Kings

David MUSIL, Vancouver Giants

Robin SOUDEK, Chilliwack Bruins

Rasmus RISSANEN, Everett Silvertips

Marcel NOEBELS, Seattle Thunderbirds

Bernhard KEIL, Kamloops Blazers

Andreas STENE, Kelowna Rockets

Sven BARTSCHI, Portland Winterhawks

Nino NIEDERREITER, Portland Winterhawks

Juraj HOLLY, Calgary Hitmen

Dalibor BORTNAK, Kamloops Blazers

Martin MARINCIN, Prince George Cougars

Andrej KUDRNA, Red Deer Rebels

That is unless their WHL team would like to give them some time off to rest or if they were injured during the tournament and played through the injuries and some rehab/rest.

The only other players missing from their teams for longer will be the Team Canada and USA Hockey players and should be available after January 5.

Interesting editorial on Taking Note that can be found here. This should be resolved as soon as possible Mr. Drinnan is an authority on the league and it's history. Dub This Week's take on this is that it is funny they banned the print media when their radio commentator has been saying more negative things in his blog. Violating league policy because someone used free speech?!?

GAMES TONIGHT:

Prince Albert @ Brandon

Moose Jaw @ Kamloops

Edmonton @ Medicine Hat

Calgary @ Saskatoon

Seattle @ Tri-City

NO GAMES SCHEDULED JANUARY 5, 2010