Bylsma helps out friend and former teammate Lambert with the Rockets: Thursday’s coast-to-coast

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WHL

Bylsma is back, baby! Former Jack Adams winner Dan Bylsma is back running practices, helping out his ex-teammate Dan Lambert with the Kelowna Rockets. Experience is always good to capitalize on, and the Rockets are set to go far in the post-season. (KelownaCapNews.com)

Portland Winterhawk forward Oliver Bjorkstrand has enjoyed an historic season, and his big club in Columbus has taken notice. (BlueJackets.NHL.com)

Potential first-round pick Ivan Provorov has impressed Wheat Kings fans the moment he stepped on Westman Place ice. He credits moving to North America four years ago as the key moment in his development. (NHL.com)

Former Saskatoon Blade pick Tim McGauley was the Blades most recent first rounder – in 2010! – and that is set to change this season. McGauley, by the way, tied for the league lead in points, and no longer a Blade. (TheStarPhoenix.com)

Spokane forward Liam Stewart, or as he’s known in the UK, Rod Stewart’s son, selected to Great Britain’s training camp to prepare for the world championships in Holland next month. (Scotsman.com)

OHL

It's one year since Saginaw Spirit forward Terry Trafford took his own life.

A playoff spot might be locked up, but the Erie Otters are one of many teams that can still control the OHL’s playoff races, and get ready for the post-season. (GoErie.com)

Different perspective for the Kitchener Rangers, who play potential playoff opponents London and Guelph before the regular season is over, and the two games could be good tests. (TheRecord.com)

Attack defender Tyler MacArthur has learned a lot in his 17-year-old season alongside Avalanche prospect Chris Bigras, and the two share many similaries, including growing up in the Barrie minor league system. (TheBarrieExaminer.com)

The Saginaw Spirit have enjoyed the maturation of blueliner Chase Stewart into a solid OHLer in his first season. (MLive.com)

Former Brampton Battalion and Erie Otter Spencer Abraham won the CIS’s Clare Drake Award for rookie of the year this season. Second Queen’s player to win the award; last season’s winner was netminder and former Oshawa General and London Knight Kevin Bailie. (TheWhig.com)

The OHL named their academic players of the month, with Plymouth’s Cullen Mercer leading the way with a 4.25 (!) GPA. (OntarioHockeyLeague.com)

QMJHL

Should the Coyotes be worried about the Anthony Duclair healthy scratch for a lack of effort? A ‘Yotes blog examines the clues. (FiveForHowling.com)

…and a co-incidence, or bad timing, this profile on Duclair shows up on the QMJHL website the day after being scratched. (TheQMJHL.ca)

More trouble in Rempart-land, as Dmytro Timashov and Vladimir Tkachev forgot their mouthguards before a key third-period in Shawinigan, where the team started the frame on the man advantage. The officials wouldn’t let them play without them, so they had to get them while the period began. That earned both players a nice, hard bag skate Wednesday. (LaPresse.ca)

Danick Martel of the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada is rewarded for his hard work with a two-way three-year entry level deal with the Philadelphia Flyers. (JournalExpress.ca)

The Q named their scholastic players of the month as well. Here’s the list. (TheQMJHL.ca)