Monday round-up
r Brayden Schenn scored one goal and set up another as the Brandon Wheat Kings broke a three-game losing streak with a 4-1 victory over the Edmonton Oil Kings on Monday afternoon in the Western Hockey League.
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r Jay Fehr, Matt Calvert and Michael Ferland also scored for Brandon (5-4-0-1), which got 31 saves from Andrew Hayes.
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r Tomas Vincour replied for Edmonton (5-3-0-2), which pulled within a goal at 2:22 of the third but couldn't get any closer.
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r Vincour also fought Klarc Wilson in the second period after the Brandon forward decked Edmonton's Keegan Lowe, the son of Oilers president of hockey operations Kevin Lowe.
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r After Edmonton made it 2-1, Brandon restored its two goal lead at 9:27 when Schenn's shot deflected in off Michael St. Croix.
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r Ferland sealed the game with 3:39 to go, whacking in a rebound off Torrie Jung's chest. Jung made 31 saves.
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r BRONCOS 3, ICE 1
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r THE CANADIAN PRESS, SWIFT CURRENT, Sk – The Swift Current Broncos outshot the visiting Kootenay Ice by a 38-17 margin while collecting a 3-1 win on Thanksgiving Day.
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r Broncos goaltender Morgan Clark turned aside 16 of 17 shots to improve his season record to 4-2 while earning the win in net.
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r The Broncos had a power-play goal from Brad Hoban, Derek Claffey fired the eventual game winner with his first of the season with 1:07 left in the middle period, and Geordie Wudrick notched his seventh of the season 54 seconds into the final period.
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r Defenceman Brayden McNabb scored Kootenay's lone goal in the third period. Ice goaltender Todd Matthews falls to 1-2 on the year despite stopping 35 of 38 shots.
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r The Broncos went one for five on the power play, while the Ice went without a special teams goal in three tries.
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r Swift Current is now 6-1 on home ice while improving to 6-4-0 on the season, while Kootenay falls to 2-5 on the road after dropping to 4-7-0.
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r TIGERS 12, BLAZERS 5
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r THE CANADIAN PRESS, KAMLOOPS, B.C. – The Medicine Hat Tigers erased a two-goal deficit with nine straight goals as they whipped the Kamloops Blazers 12-5 in a Monday afternoon WHL game.
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r Emerson Etem scored four times for the Tigers (4-2-4), who trailed 4-2 after the first period. Mark Isherwood, with two, Jace Coyle, Bretton Cameron, Tristan King, Kale Kessy, Taylor Gal and Linden Vey also scored for the visitors.
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r Shayne Wiebe, with two, Dylan Willick, Brendan Ranford and Linden Saip counted for Kamloops (7-2-2).
r Medicine Hat goaltender Tyler Bunz turned aside 28 shots.
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r Kamloops goaltender Justin Leclerc stopped 26 of 34 shots before being replaced by Jon Groenheyde, who stopped three of seven shots, early in the third period.
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r GIANTS 2, BRUINS 1
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r THE CANADIAN PRESS, CHILLIWACK, B.C. – James Henry and Craig Cunningham scored in a shootout as the Vancouver Giants edged the Chilliwack Bruins 2-1 in Western Hockey League action Monday.
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r Brendan Gallagher scored in regulation for Vancouver, while Kevin Sundher replied for Chilliwack.
r Jamile Tucker made 28 saves in regulation and overtime for Vancouver (7-2-2), then stopped Sundher and Ryan Howse in the shootout.
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r Mark Friesen stopped 33 shots for Chilliwack (2-5-2).
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