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Calgary, Edmonton set for Game 7: Tuesday’s coast-to-coast

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

WHL

Calgary Hitmen overages Spencer Humphries, Brooks Macek and Cody Sylvester are bent on making sure Game 7 of the Eastern final vs. Edmonton will not be their final WHL game. (Calgary Herald)

For the Oil Kings and overage T.J. Foster, their point of reference heading into the decider is Game 4. Edmonton, down 2-1 in games, scored five first-period goals that day to forge into a tie. (Edmonton Journal)

The Medicine Hat Tigers' Hunter Shinkaruk squeaks into TSN commentator Bob McKenzie's top 10 draft ranking, joining Seth Jones to form the WHL contingent. (TSN)

The Portland Winterhawks indicate league commissioner Ron Robison "will be" available to take media questions before the series. The league's sanctions against Portland are still hot-button in the Rose City. (Portland Tribune)

A definite should-read: Portland Winterhawks centre Taylor Peters, who could probably put a sportswriter out of work if he wanted to, on how the playoffs aren't even the same sport as the regular season. (Oregon Live)

OHL

Would the Ottawa 67's Sean Monahan be a good fit for the Edmonton Oilers at No. 7 overall in the draft. At least he has experience with a rebuild. (The Cult of Hockey)

As mentioned Monday, Sarnia Sting coach-GM Jacques Beaulieu is facing two assault charges. (London Free Press)

Tyson Fawcett, who scored the Barrie Colts' series-winning goal in the Eastern Conference final on Monday, has the money quote too: “We'd dive in front of pucks with our teeth if we had to." (Belleville Intelligencer)

The Colts had two decisive wins on the Belleville Bulls' big ice and squeaked out two OT wins in their regulation-size home digs. Meantime, disappointed Bulls captain Brendan Gaunce will get to black-ace with the Vancouver Canucks during their Stanley Cup playoff series vs. San Jose. (Barrie Examiner)

There is one American making a run for the border: defenceman Doug Blaisdell has signed with Kitchener. (OHL)

Not OHL per se, but those defending 2013 Don Cherry probably don't know that 1975 Don Cherry was the first NHL coach to open his team's dressing room to a woman reporter. There is bliss and big bucks in ignorance, eh. (ESPNw)

QMJHL

Unlike Phil Kessel, who blew off the media ahead of a NHL playoff series against his former team, Halifax Mooseheads star Nathan MacKinnon understands why facing the Baie-Comeau Drakkar in the President's Cup final is a story. MacKinnon declined to report to the Drakkar after they selected No. 1 overall in 2011. (Halifax Chronicle-Herald)

Meantime, Mooseheads fans started camping out at 1 a.m. Tuesday morning for tickets for the final.

On a per-capita level, Halifax might be Canada's best local sports city. Too bad the Atlantic University Sport conference no longer has football. (Metro Halifax)

Going out in a contentious league semifinal is hard for the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada to take, says graduating centre Tommy Giroux. (TVA Sports)

The Chicoutimi Saguenéens plan to be active in the CHL import draft, where they hold the No. 21 overall pick. Having a playmaker such as Laurent Dauphin doesn't hurt their sales pitch. (Le Quotidien)

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