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Daily Dose of the Dub: Royals sign Price to multi-year contract extension, Weekly Report and more

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Price gets an extension in Victoria

Victoria Royals head coach Dan Price has been given a multi-year contract extension as the Royals have been quietly doing pretty good this year in the B.C. division. As of this writing, they have a 17-10-2 record through 28 games which has them in third place in the division. Price took over as head coach in the 2017-18 season after Dave Lowry departed the organization and the team is currently on pace for their 11th consecutive playoff appearance.

Beckman, Korczak, Sillinger named to CHL Team of the Week

The final CHL Team of the Week before the holiday break has come out with Spokane’s Adam Beckman, Medicine Hat’s Cole Sillinger and Kelowna’s Kaedan Korczak cracking the lineup. Beckman was named the WHL Player of the Week recording six goals and three assists in three games. Sillinger topped Beckman in points but only tallied one goal with the bulk of his points coming in assists. On the blueline, Korczak suited up for four games and notched two goals and three assists.

Milestones 

  • Spokane’s Ben Thornton made his WHL debut
  • Winnipeg’s Jackson Leppard played in his 200th WHL game.

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Mac’s Midget Tournament

Our pal Alan Caldwell has put together a comprehensive breakdown of all the WHL prospects attending the annual Mac’s Midget Tournament. The group is headlined by players like Oasiz Wiesblatt (Medicine Hat Tigers), Jordan Gustafson (Seattle Thunderbirds), Rylen Roersma (Brandon Wheat Kings), Tyson Jugnauth (Swift Current Broncos), Kevin Korchinski (Seattle Thunderbirds) and Koehn Ziemmer (Prince George Cougars). For the full list, you can go here.

Aasman named head coach of Storm

Ryan Aasman (166 GP, 1 G, 11 A with the Prince Albert Raiders, Seattle Thunderbirds, Swift Current Broncos, Medicine Hat Tigers and Edmonton Oil Kings from 2007-12) has been named the head coach of the AJHL’s Grande Prairie Storm. Aasman joined the Storm as an assistant coach at the beginning of this season.

Three Stars

First Star: Victoria’s Carson Miller scored two goals and added an assist

Second Star: Prince George’s Josh Maser had two goals

Third Star: Prince George’s Taylor Gauthier made 32 saves in a shutout

Honourable Mentions

Seattle’s Connor Roulette had a goal and two assists.

Weekly Report

Calgary Hitmen

  • Will Kushniryk has been released from the active roster and rejoined Prince George of the BCHL.
  • Jonas Peterek is back from Czech Republic’s World Junior Selection Camp

Edmonton Oil Kings

  • Carson Latimer has been released from the active roster and rejoined the Delta Hockey Academy of the CSSHL.

Kamloops Blazers

  • Logan Bairos and Tye Spencer have returned to the Saskatoon Contacts of the SMHL

Medicine Hat Tigers

  • Evan Fradette has been returned to Fort McMurray of the AJHL.
  • Bryan Lockner is out for an undetermined length of time with an upper-body injury.

Portland Winterhawks

  • Matt Quigley is back from injury.

Prince George Cougars

  • Mitch Kohner is day-to-day with a lower-body injury.

Red Deer Rebels

  • Ethan Anders and Jaxsen Wiebe have returned from injury

Regina Pats

  • Tyson Feist is day-to-day with an upper-body injury

Seattle Thunderbirds

  • Jordan Gustafson and Spencer Penner have been returned to their respective club teams.
  • Jared Davidson has returned from injury.

Spokane Chiefs

  • Brandon Reller is day-to-day with an upper-body injury. Filip Kral was listed on the report as day-to-day but was back in the lineup on Tuesday night.
  • Connor Gabruch and Bobby Russell have both returned from injury.

Swift Current Broncos

  • Hayden Ostir is day-to-day with a lower-body injury.
  • Tyler Smithies has returned from injury.

Tri-City Americans

  • Ian Ferguson (lower-body), Tom Cadieux (illness) and Tyson Greenway (upper-body) are all day-to-day.
  • Nick Bowman has returned from injury

Victoria Royals

  • River Fahey has been deleted from the roster
  • Sean Gulka and Kaid Oliver have returned from injury.

Winnipeg ICE

  • Logan Danis has been returned to the Winnipeg Blues of the MJHL.