You're in Silvertips Country!

I got busy yesterday and didn't get a chance to update things from the WHL world, and so here it is today.

The WHL has 4 teams in the CHL Top 10 Rankings this week with the Calgary Hitmen at 2, Vancouver Giants at 3, Saskatoon Blades at 6 and the Brandon Wheat Kings bringing up the rear at 10.

Also, Drayson Bowman of the Spokane Chiefs was named the CHL player of the week. Drayson is a baby Cane who scored five goals and five assists for 10 points in three wins with a plus-minus rating of plus-6. He was also part of Team USA this last winter in the World Junior Tournament.

The Silvertips went 1-2 this last week, but those two losses were against teams much older and more experienced. However, since they have been fairly close to the .500 mark, they have sewn up a spot in the playoffs for the 6th straight year. Hopefully this will give the boys the support and positive mind space to get through some really tough games coming up, especially since they have 5 games in 7 nights this next week.

We still have four guys on the sidelines and they will probably be there for the weekend: Dale Hunt with a concussion, Paul Van de Velde and his separated shoulder, Daniel Bartek's broken hand and out for the rest of the season doing rehab on his hip flexor is Shayne Brown. The Everett Herald says that Paulie is skating in practice again, but his shoulder is still needs time before it's 100 percent and my good pal Dale is making slow progress with his concussion, but I'm sure they'll make sure his melon is all better. Best of all is our Czech pal Daniel... they might get him a skating cast, which means he's not sitting on the sidelines for the remaining weeks of his WHL career which would suck rocks big!

So, that's what's going on here in Tipsville. We're playing Vancouver tonight and hopefully we'll get out alive. :)