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1/1 Recap: Much improved Sutch steps up
Gregg Sutch scored a pair of goals Saturday as Mississauga avoided their first losing streak of the year with a 2-1 come-from-behind win over Kingston. The two-goal game, the third of Sutch’s junior career, gives the checking wing a season line of 7-14-21 +18 through 34 games. Heading into 2010-11, the fifth-rounder had career totals…
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12/31 Recap: McNabb extends streak, ties franchise mark
Brayden McNabb scored a power play goal Friday to extend his point streak to ten games as Kootenay closed out Swift Current, 5-3. The 6’4 defender is tied for fifth among WHL defensemen with 35 points through 28 games played, while the marker, McNabb’s eighth of the year, also thrusts him into a tie for…
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Foligno leaves marks as Canada falls
Marcus Foligno did not score but continued to be a major physical force as Canada lost in a shootout to Sweden, 6-5. Team Canada closes the preliminary round with a 3-1 record, and will now have to play a quarterfinal game on Sunday to keep their medal hopes alive. Foligno, who has two goals, an…
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Boychuk to serve two-game suspension
Portland Winterhawks forward Riley Boychuk has been suspended two games by the WHL as supplemental discipline for actions in the final five minutes of Wednesday’s 5-1 loss to Tri-City. After teammate Ty Rattie was dropped by an elbow, an unruly Boychuk fired a punch as players paired off to earn the supplemental punishment. The 6’5…
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12/30 Recap: Gauthier-Leduc ends year well; Eno injured
Jerome Gauthier-Leduc scored a goal and two assists Thursday to spark Rimouski to a 4-3 overtime win over Montreal. The 6’2 defenseman closed the 2010 calendar with six points over a current three-game streak to up his season line to 6-19-25. The Oceanic (20-18-2) will take the weekend off before returning to host Quebec on…
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12/29 Recap: Foligno marks as Nats roll; McNabb streak hits nine
Marcus Foligno scored a goal and an assist Wednesday as Team Canada executed a 10-1 blowout of Norway at the World Junior Championship. The big wing earned his points as part of Canada’s six-goal first period while manning a line with Louis Leblanc (MTL) and Sean Couturier (’11). Canada was short on bodies, missing suspended…
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Kassian out 'til medal round
The IIHF has suspended Team Canada forward Zack Kassian one additional game for his match penalty assessed in Tuesday’s 7-2 clobbering of the Czech Republic. With the infraction earning an automatic one-game penalty, the supplemental discipline extends Kassian’s absence through the rest of the preliminary round. Along the way, the 6’3 bruising scorer will miss…
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12/28 Recap: Fienhage gets first; McNabb approaches mark
Corey Fienhage scored his first WHL goal Tuesday and added a pair of assists as Kamloops downed Vancouver, 6-1. The athletic defenseman scored the Blazers final goal of the game when he shot in from the right point and completed a three-way passing play with a sharp wrister. Fienhage looked strong on the puck with…
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Kassian again finds turmoil, ejected in CAN/CZE tilt
I’ll post more on this as we go, but here’s a reel of the Zack Kassian hit on Petr Senkerik that earned a five minute match penalty and game misconduct in the 2nd period of Tuesday’s Canada-Czech Republic prelim game. Senkerik was taken off on a stretcher, and the reactions since have varied between “clean”…
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Foligno opens door, Kassian helps shut it as Canada debuts with win
Marcus Foligno scored his team’s first goal and Zack Kassina later added an assist as Canada opened the 2011 World Junior Championship with a 6-3 win over Russia. Foligno and Kassian were the starting wings for Canada, with Kings prospect Brayden Schenn between them. The pair later moved to spend all but two even strength…
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