TUESDAY

In Calgary, the Oilers dress only 18 players with Chris Duszynski, Jesse Hudkins, Derek Rodwell and Jonathan Turk all on the roster but not in the line up but still win. Brandon Hoogenboom scores his 14th and 15th of the year to blow things open for Okotoks in the second period on route to a 7-3 win. High River native Corban Knight added to his Oiler team lead in points, now at 35, with a goal and an assist. For the Royals, rookie Kent Fox scored his first of the year while Spencer Copp added his third and Travis Bradshaw his 5th. With the game out of hand in the final minute Bradley Drobot saw some powerplay time for the Royals and picked up roughing and cross checking minors and a ten minute misconduct.

In Drumheller, 523 fans witnessed Justin Faryna score a powerplay marker at 7:55 of the third period to break a 4-4 tie and pace the Dragons to a 5-4 win over the Canucks. It was the third powerplay goal for Drum as they went 3 for 9 with the man advantage. Jeff Young had both other powerplay goals while Robert Nocera added his 11th and Justin Morello his 5th. The Canucks found themselves trailing 3-0 after one but got themselves into early in the second with Matthew MacKay's 14th of the year and first short handed. Mike Pao, Krishan Kaushal and Mitch Kulikowski had the other goals for the Canucks while Aaron Dell made 32 saves in the loss. Next action for Calgary is Wednesday when they host Brooks.

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How much do the Pontiacs miss Kirk Belyk and Steven Seigo? Seig's last game was October 25th while Belyk played 2 more games before playing his last game November 1st. Heading into November the Pontiacs were 25% on the powerplay. Since November 1st the Pontiacs have scored 9 powerplay goals in 71 chances good for 12.67%. Had they remained at 25% they would have scored 17.75 goals, if we round down to 17 that's a difference of 8 goals on the powerplay alone .... not to mention how important that 0.75 of a goal could have been.

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Seigo looked good on the ice yesterday in practice and should be back for this weekend. Belyk is still not skating with the team. Hard practice, I'm sure meant to get the boys back into a hockey frame of mind after a weekend off.