Will Smith's career night leads Moncton to a blowout win: Saturday's 3 Stars

No. 1 star: Will Smith, Moncton Wildcats (QMJHL)

Smith isn’t one of the Wildcats’ top scorers, but he definitely got jiggy with it Saturday night, racking up five points in a 9-3 dismantling of Sherbrooke. The 18-year-old Massachusetts native scored twice and added three assists in his first multipoint game since October.

Smith had never put up more than three points previously in a QMJHL game, and now has 27 points in 43 games this season.

Overage captain Taylor Burke had a big night for Moncton as well, with two goals and two assists. Bronson Beaton, Dominic Talbot-Tassi and Noah Zilbert chipped in with three points each.

The league's leading scorer, Conor Garland, registered a pedestrian two assists, while the Wildcats' second-leading scorer, Ivan Barbashev, was held off the scoresheet completely.

Incidentally, Sherbrooke’s Daniel Audette scored all three goals for the Phoenix, giving him 22 on the season.

No. 2 star: Rasmus Andersson, Barrie Colts (OHL)

February is off to a good start for the Swedish import, who now has six points in his last two games after Saturday’s 7-1 thrashing of woeful Sudbury.

Andersson set up goals by Stephen Nosad and Nick Pastorious in the first period, then on both of Andrew Mangiapane’s goals as the Colts built a 7-0 lead midway through the third period.

The late-birthday 18-year-old is ranked 84th on Central Scouting’s list of draft eligible North American skaters.

The Colts won their fourth in a row and maintained a four-point lead over North Bay for second place in the Eastern Conference.

No. 3 star: Stuart Skinner, Lethbridge Hurricanes (WHL)

Lethbridge hasn’t had a very good couple of seasons, both on the ice and on the public relations front, but the Cane Train started rolling again this weekend with a stunning two-game sweep of the first-place Medicine Hat Tigers.

A day after beating the Tigers 4-3 in Lethbridge, the Hurricanes earned a 4-1 win in Medicine Hat behind 39 saves from Skinner, a 16-year-old who’s providing hope that brighter days are ahead.

Medicine Hat outshot Lethbridge 40-20 on Saturday, but Skinner stood tall, making a 3-0 lead through two periods hold up with 15 saves in the third. Cole Sanford scored his WHL-leading 43rd of the season to bring the Tigers within 3-1 early in the third, but couldn’t get any closer as the Hurricanes eventually notched an empty-netter.

Skinner, who isn’t draft eligible until 2017, has stopped 88 of 92 shots in two February starts.

Honourable mention: Taran Kozun, Seattle Thunderbirds (WHL)

The overager continues to state his case as the top goaltender in the WHL's Western Conference -- and perhaps even the entire WHL. Saturday, he stopped 38 shots to shut out the Vancouver Giants, 3-0.

He wasn't challenged often in the first two periods, but that changed in the third, when he was peppered with 18 shots and had to make several big saves to keep the Giants off the board.

Kozun leads the WHL with a 2.30 goals-against average, and ranks third with a .917 save percentage.