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Contest winners and merch
I'm far to indecisive I was so impressed with everyone's posters, so the winners are as follows:Most humorous and/or ironic: Mikaela's "I Believe in Riley McIntosh"Best use of pattern: Amanda'sBest use of pot reference: Spokant'sMost information conveyed: Wangler's Drozd posterBest in show goes of course, to MommaBaum.*Loser: sister. for not even trying. Like Wayne Gretzky said, "you miss

Wow.
Eight goals against one of the best teams in the WHL. I had to keep checking to see if it was real life. THIRTEEN DIFFERENT AMERICANS HAD POINTS LAST NIGHT.That, my friends, is scoring by committee. Wait till Sergei's back too.Asuchak, Prokop, Lazo, Moser, Castro, Sutherland, Feser, Reddick, Macek, Messier, McIntosh, Hughesman, and of course Brendan Shinnimin.I thought it was one of Brock

Game Day, Contest, and some random bits
First, from Drinnan:F Ryan Kinasewich (Medicine Hat, Tri-City, 1998-2004) of the Utah Grizzlies is the ECHL’s Reebok player of the month for October. He led the ECHL with nine goals, three of them game-winners, in five games. He totalled 14 points in those five games. He had three or more points in four of the games. . . . In 229 ECHL games over six seasons, he has 307 points. That includes 269

Oh Sergei...
DROZD CONTINUES TO REWRITE WJAC RECORD BOOKWhen he arrived in Camrose, Alta., for the 2008 World Junior A Challenge, Siarhei Drozd was a relatively unknown commodity, a good player on a Belarus team many expected to finish near the bottom of the pack.By the time he finishes his second WJAC tour of duty this week in Summerside, the tournament record book may well by a tribute to the Minsk

The boys getting respect in Calgary too :)
Spokant pointed me (and others) to this article yesterday in the comments, from the Calgary Sun:Oh say, can you see ... Americans proving to be dawn's early light of the WHL campaign By SCOTT FISHERMost WHL teams have reached the quarter-pole of the season. And, without question, the red-hot Tri-City Americans are the talk of the league. It's not that the Americans, who posted a 101-