The Let Nail Play edition: Friday’s coast-to-coast

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

WHL

Canadian Hockey League president David Branch is downplaying the effect a NHL lockout will have on attendance. (QMI Agency)

Patrick King drops the gloves on staged fighting. (Sportsnet)

Edmonton Oil Kings defenceman Martin Gernat had shoulder surgery and is three weeks away from even being around the team, never mind beginning his rehab, reports Evan Daum. (Edmonton Journal)

Commissioner Ron Robison is piping up about the push to build a new arena in Medicine Hat: "We're trying to deliver what the public would want." (Medicine Hat News)

Minnesota Wild first-rounder Mathew Dumba will rejoin the Red Deer Rebels on Saturday after sitting two games for a head-checking major penalty. Says Dumba: "I've got to be smarter and recognize and recognize when the guy's head is down." (Red Deer Scene)

The first Calgary-Edmonton tilt of the new season goes Friday night. (Calgary Sun, Calgary Herald)

The Victoria Royals face a litmus test this weekend against high-flying Kamloops. (Victoria Times-Colonist)

Prince Albert Raiders overage goalie Luke Siemens will see some old Moose Jaw friends this weekend. (Prince Albert Daily Herald)

OHL

Robert Tychowski goes medieval on all involved in Nail-gate, the Sarnia-to-Siberia snafu that is keeping Nail Yakupov off the ice: "No wonder hockey is in such a mess, if people like this are running the show." (QMI Agency, Vancouver Province)

The saga continues to get weirder. (Pro Hockey Talk, Oilers Nation)

London Knights draft-year forward Max Domi is vowing to shoot more this season. (London Free Press)

The Kitchener Rangers may want to try scoring a 5-on-5 goal. They are 2-1-0-0 without having done so. (Waterloo Record)

Sports Illustrated believes Plymouth Whalers forward Ryan Hartman is still with the U.S. under-18 team, even though he is 18 years old. (SI.com)

Swedish goalie Oscar Dansk had 47 saves in his first win for the Erie Otters. (Shootout)

Sudbury Wolves coach Trent Cull was ejected on Thursday for arguing with officials during a 5-0 loss in Saginaw. (Sudbury Star)

Much has changed since the last time the Niagara IceDogs and Ottawa 67's played. (Ottawa Sun)

Peterbourgh Petes sophomore wing Nick Ritchie will miss Friday's game vs. Oshawa due to injury, but it's not believed to be serious. (Peterborough Examiner)

New York Islanders-drafted defender Jesse Graham is past the effects of an ankle injury. (St. Catharines Standard)

The defence needs shoring up in Sault Ste. Marie. (Sault Star)

It's McDavid-McKeown I in Kingston tonight, as the top two priority selection picks, Connor McDavid and Roland McKeown, go head-to-head. Also, the entire Erie and Kingston teams will participate. (Kingston Whig-Standard)

QMJHL

It does not appear that Florida Panthers first-rounder Jonathan Huberdeau was too seriously injured in Wednesday's Saint John Sea Dogs tilt. (Station Nation)

Our Cal Ripken-like streak of Nathan MacKinnon mentions continues, since there's so much coverage and he and Halifax Mooseheads teammates Jonathan Drouin and Zach Fucale. (Halifax Chronicle-Herald, Metro Halifax)

Detroit Red Wings prospect Xavier Ouellet and overage Samuel Carrier might give the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada the best set of puck-moving defencemen in the league. Having two of those can be vital in the crunch — remember Shawinigan last May with Morgan Ellis and Brandon Gormley. (La Presse)

Is Acadie-Bathurst overager Zach O'Brien a favourite to win the Q scoring title? (Halifax Chronicle-Herald)

How much longer will the Robert Guertin Arena even be playable? (Le Droit)

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