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Halifax gives up Eichel quest: the coast-to-coast

Neate Sager

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

WHL

The young Seth Jones was "adamant" about not following his father into basketball, says his mother, Amy Jones. (New York Daily News)

Gauging where Kelowna Rockets defenceman Madison Bowey will be drafted is a fun guessing game. (Kelowna Daily Courier)

Anyone else surprised the Winnipeg Jets passed on signing Tri-City defender Zachary Yuen? (Winnipeg Free Press)

Not sure if there is a direct comparison between a small-market Dub team such as the Prince George Cougars and a Q team with a 10,000-seat arena, but it's true P.G. and the regal Halifax Mooseheads were each league cellar dwellars in 2010. (Prince George Citizen)

The Alberta Junior Hockey League is cracking down on under-the-table compensation for players; Fort McMurray Oil Barons radio voice Tyler King is being contrary about it. (Global News)

OHL

Diving into the very bad, nay, terrible idea to ban European goalies from the CHL. Won't scouts just go where the talent is, regardless? (The Pipeline Show)

A trade! Overage goalie Matt Mahalak, who was displaced by Alex Nedeljkovic in Plymouth midway through the season, is headed to the Kingston Frontenacs for 2014 and '15 third-rounders. (plymouthwhalers.com)

The Ottawa 67's, who need to firm up their depth, have added 18-year-old right wing Sam Studnicka from the Windsor Spitfires.

The ORNGE air tragedy has touched the hockey world. Dustin Dagenais, the 34-year-old paramedic who perished in the helicopter crash on Friday, had brief stints with the Belleville Bulls and Halifax Mooseheads in the late 1990s. (OHL)

Josh Brown has divined that Dallas Stars first-rounder Radek Faksa will likely return to the Kitchener Rangers for his 19-year-old season. (Rangers Report)

The ORNGE air tragedy has touched the hockey world. Dustin Dagenais, the 34-year-old paramedic who perished in the helicopter crash on Friday, had brief stints with the Belleville Bulls and Halifax Mooseheads in the late 1990s. (OHL)

Former fifth-rounder Austen Brassard has signed on with Winnipeg, likely ruling out any chance of him returning to the Belleville Bulls as an overage. (Windsor Star, Winnipeg Free Press)

Would the Kingston Frontenacs' Ryan Kujawinski be a fit for the Boston Bruins in the second round? (New England Hokey Journal)

QMJHL

As Rick Pitino would put it, 2015 NHL draft prospect Jack Eichel is not walkin' through that door in Halifax.

Charlottetown Islanders GM Grant Sonier talks about changing the culture on the island. (The Pipeline Show)

Q great Martin Gélinas is ruling himself out as a candidate to replace Patrick Roy with the Quebec Remparts. How about TV analyst Gaston Therrien, then? Hiring a Therrien worked out in Montreal until the playoffs started. (Le Soleil)

Getting to know Remparts forward Kurt Etchegary, whose draft season was interrupted by a shoulder injury. (Coming Down The Pipe!)

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