Baptiste banged up: the coast-to-coast

Combing all corners of the country and the blogosphere for your junior hockey headlines...

WHL

Bob McCown weighs on the discussion (slash silly season story) about revamping the Memorial Cup format. (Prime Time Sports)

Victoria's new No. 1 goalie, Coleman Vollrath, looked impressive in his exhibition debut. No mention of how long the dry scrape took in Delta, B.C., before the Royals and Kamloops Blazers played 31 seconds of 4-on-4 hockey. (Victoria Times-Colonist)

Lethbridge's Tyler Wong is hopeful of rebounding from a season that was shortened by a brain injury. (Cochrane Eagle)

Will Moose Jaw climb out of its post-Morgan Rielly doldrums? (The Pipeline Show)

OHL

It's Sonny Milano and he's doing stuff for the Plymouth Whalers. (Detroit Free Press)

Buffalo Sabres prospect Nick Baptiste will miss "a couple of weeks" with a lower-body injury. Hey, if there's any good time to be hurt, it's the last two weeks of preseason. (Sudbury Star)

Sophomore Nikita Korostelev had a four-point night for Sarnia over the weekend, which is what's expected from a former first-rounder. (Sarnia Observer)

Top prospect Travis Konecny is learning how to manage expectations. Or something.  (CKSN)

Will the Kitchener Rangers get overage defenceman Max Iafrate back from the Colorado Avalanche training camp? (Waterloo Record)

Kevin Darveau, Zach Fucale's former backup in Halifax, might have the inside track on a goaltending job in London. (London Free Press)

The big takeaway from North Bay's weekend: Brett McKenzie could become a primary scorer for the Battalion. (NorthBayNipissing.com)

Owen Sound draftee Colin Tonge, who's playing for the Junior A Kingston Voyageurs, has committed to play at Princeton University in three seasons' time. (SBN College Hockey)

Matt Luff, a 50-goal scorer in the major midget ranks, bagged a double in his Belleville Bulls preseason debut. Try not to extrapolate too much based on that performance. (Belleville Intelligencer)

QMJHL

Feel-good story: Yanick Turcotte, who was cut twice from midget AAA teams and had knee surgery last year, has stuck with the Quebec Remparts. (Parlons Junior)

What is the outlook for third-year Sherbrooke, which finally has to play under the same overage rules as the rest of the loop? (The Pipeline Show)

Gatineau will open the regular season with nine regulars absent and, yes, the bad ice at decrepit Centre Robert-Guertin is a culprit. Olympiques coach-GM Benoit Groulx: "It’s too bad because you want to start training camp doing things right and after three days you have seven guys out with a hip flexor." (Ottawa Citizen)

It's time for that fun first week or two where Q teams try to pile up points without having their NHL camp-bound stars, writes Jerome Gaudreau. Learn to like it. (Sherbrooke Tribune)

Neate Sager is a writer for Yahoo! Canada Sports. Contact him at neatesager@yahoo.ca and follow him on Twitter @neatebuzzthenet.