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October 13, 2004 - Western Hockey League (WHL)
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The WHEAT KINGS will be hoping to salvage the final game of a mini 2-game Saskatchewan road trip tonight when they travel to MOOSE JAW to take on the WARRIORS.BRANDON lost the opening game of the excursion Tuesday night, dropping a disappointing 5-4 decision in SASKATOON.Rookie center JUSTIN MCCRAE'S first ever WHL goal - with eight minutes remaining in the third period - lifted the first place BLADES to their fifth victory of the young campaign.ERIC FEHR, with two goals, MARK SHEFCHYK and captain TIM KONSORADA replied for the WHEAT KINGS who outshot the BLADES by a wide 40-27 margin.The loss, BRANDON'S second in a row, was the WHEATS first regulation time setback since February 29th of last season when they lost 2-1 to REGINA.After opening the season with three straight wins, BRANDON is 0-1-0-1 in it's last two games, having dropped a 3-2 overtime decision to the visiting SWIFT CURRENT BRONCOS last Saturday night at the Keystone Centre.BRANDON enters tonight's game with a record of 3-1-0-1, good for seven points and second place in the Western Hockey League's Eastern Division.The WHEAT KINGS are 2-0-0-1 at home and 1-1-0 on the road.Last night's game was BRANDONS first away from home since doubling up the PATS 4-2 on September 25th to complete a home and home series sweep of their season opening series.The WHEAT KINGS are coming off an up and down 2003-04 campaign - a season that saw them finish in third place in the WHL's Eastern Division with a record of 28-32-9-3.BRANDON did however finish strongly, going 7-2-1 in it's final ten regular season games and upsetting the heavily favored PRINCE ALBERT RAIDERS in the opening round of the playoffs.Among the seven players missing from last year's club are goalkeeper JOSH HARDING, all star left-winger LANCE MONYCH as well as the likes of ERIK CHRISTENSEN, TYLER DYCK, RICHARD JASOVSKY and defenceman REAGAN LESLIE.Entering tonight's game, the WHEAT KINGS still have 27 players on their active roster including ten WHL rookies.

MCCRIMMON BACK IN CHARGE: The WHEAT KINGS will have GM / coach KELLY MCCRIMMON back behind the bench tonight. Assistants DWAYNE GYLYWOYCHUK and BRAD WELLS ran the club on Tuesday night while McCRIMMON was in Calgary attending league meetings.Excluding last year's playoffs, the WHEAT KINGS are 9-0-0-1 since MCCRIMMON replaced MIKE KELLY last March.

WHOSE BEEN HOT? RYAN STONE is among the league leaders with twelve points including six goals in just five games.Captain TIM KONSORADA is 3-5-8 in five games while ERIC FEHR, one of only three WHL players to score fifty goals last season, has five goals and 7 points.KONSORADA and STONE have scored at least a point in all five games this season.

INJURIES: In addition to left-winger MARK DERLAGO, who will be lost for the season after sustaining a fracture of his second vertebrae during a pre-season game against REGINA, the WHEAT KINGS are currently without right-winger RYAN REAVES (knee), who is listed as day-to-day entering this week's play.

PRE-SEASON REVISITED: BRANDON was 1-3-0 in four pre-season games this month.The WHEAT KINGS only win came against MOOSE JAW (3-2 in overtime on September 10th).Center RYAN STONE led the club in pre-season scoring (2-3-5).Rookie TYLER PLANTE was 1-1-0 with a 2.99 goals against average and an .897 save percentage.

MILESTONES: Captain TIM KONSORADA needs five games to reach the 250-game plateau in his WHL career.Former KAMLOOPS BLAZER TYLER BOLDT is 34 games away from 300.With his two goals on Saturday, RYAN STONE eclipsed the 150-point plateau in his career.TYLER PLANTE, who chalked up his first ever WHL win on Sept. 25th in REGINA, made his first home ice start in posting last Saturday's win over the REBELS.Former HURRICANE JAMIESON ORR made his BRANDON debut last night.

VS. MOOSE JAW: During last year's season series against the WARRIORS, BRANDON was 3-5-0.ERIC FEHR (7-3-10) and RYAN STONE (2-7-9) led the WHEAT KINGS in scoring against MOOSE JAW while netminder MIKE NICHOL was 1-1-0 with a 3.03 goals against average in two appearances.

BRANDON BITS: BRANDON opens the regular season with four local products on it's active roster - DEREK LEBLANC, MIKE NICHOL, TYLER DITTMER and 17-yearold goalkeeper TYLER PLANTE.Former WHL all star defenceman BRAD MCCRIMMON, a current assistant coach with the NHL's ATLANTA THRASHERS, spent last week practicing with BRANDON'S blueline corps.Over 1,000 fans have entered the BRANDON SUN / SOBKOW TECHNOLOGIES WHL FANTASY DRAFT. Deadline was Friday.

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