WHL Brandon Wheat Kings

Brandon Meets The Blades Friday

Published on November 13, 2009 under Western Hockey League (WHL)
Brandon Wheat Kings News Release


Brandon, Manitoba -- The Brandon Wheat Kings close out a 5-game Western Hockey League home stand this weekend with games against two bitter Eastern Division rivals.

Winners of back to back games, the Wheat Kings play host to the Saskatoon Blades Friday night before entertaining the Regina Pats on Sunday night at Westman Communications Group Place.

Friday night's game will feature a Blades' team that is currently leading the WHL with an impressive 16-3-0-3 record, good for 35 points and a nine point lead on the Wheat Kings, who enter the weekend with a 12-8-0-2 mark and third place in the Eastern Conference.

Unbeaten in ten straight games, the Blades have been led this season by the likes of veterans Derek Hulak, Walker Wintoneak and Stefan Elliott. While Hulak and Wintoneak lead the club in scoring with 29 and 27 points respectively, Elliott has been outstanding during the first two months of regular season play and enters the weekend with eight goals and 19 points, putting him among the league leaders when it comes to scoring by defencemen.

In goal, the Blades lost all star Braden Holtby this year but seem to have recovered quite nicely with the netminding tandem of Adam Morrison and former Prince Albert Raider Steven Stanford. While Stanford has posted a brilliant 2.11 goals against average in nine games, Morrison has appeared in fifteen games and has compiled a stellar 2.42 goals against mark.

As for the Wheat Kings, who are coming off Wednesday's 7-3 dismantling of the visiting Prince George Cougars, Finnish right-winger Toni Rajala has been red hot of late scoring three goals and 4 points in his last two games.

Meanwhile 18-year old Saskatoon product Brayden Schenn is back in familiar territory, sitting atop the Wheat Kings' scoring list. Through his first eighteen games, the fifth overall pick in last June's National Hockey League Entry Draft has nine goals and 27 points. Veterans Jay Fehr and Matt Calvert are next with 26 and 25 respectively.

Schenn is a 2-time winner of the Wheat Kings' Scoring title and now has 69 goals and 186 points in 154 career games since joining Brandon in the fall of 2007.

Sunday's game between the Wheat Kings and Pats will be a 6 p.m. start.

Tickets to both weekend games are on sale now at the Keystone Centre box office (located in the Pioneer Lounge), by calling 726-3555 or online at www.ticketmaster.ca.

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