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Travis Konecny ready for his close-up: the coast-to-coast

Travis Konecny ready for his close-up: the coast-to-coast

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

WHL

Loves me some comparisons between 16-year-old standout Tyler Benson and former Vancouver Giants stars. (Vancouver Province)

Matthew Gourlie seems less than enamoured with the new league policy of dry-scraping the ice before regular-season overtime now that he has seen it in action: "It took nearly 12 minutes to do the dry scrape — two-thirds of a normal intermission — and they played 34 seconds of overtime." (Moose Jaw Times-Herald)

Stray observation: the Regina Pats will have seven preseason games? Overkill much? Oh, and Sam Steel had four points in the first one. (Regina Leader-Post)

Everett has signed its top bantam draft selection Jantzen Leslie, who certainly has a WHL name. (Everett Herald)

The Swift Current Broncos are bundling a fan bus to a preseason game with a winery tour. The tippling comes before watching the team play. (Southwest Booster)

OHL

Ottawa 67's centre Travis Konecny is one of two 17-year-olds in the league being followed by a documentary crew for a feature called, most imaginatively, Draft Year. Who would be the other player? (Ottawa Sun)

Could Friday be the last practice that Calgary Flames first-rounder Sam Bennett has with the Kingston Frontenacs? (Kingston Whig-Standard)

That is Robby Fabbri, and the St. Louis Blues first-rounder is showing no ill effects from banging up a knee at Hockey Canada's summer development camp. (Guelph Mercury)

Who will nab the No. 1 goalie job in Peterborough, where Jason Da Silva is the only netminder with OHL experience? (MyKawartha)

Windsor Spitfires hopeful Steven Fowler is not related to that other guy who used to play there. The thousandth person to ask will win tickets to Supertramp, however. (Windsor Star)

North Bay is hopeful that it can do a plug-and-play with Swedish newcomer Hampus Olsson. (North Bay Nugget)

When is Mississauga's youth movement going to yield more wins? (Mississauga News)

Could Nick Marois fill a big hole in Owen Sound's depth chart? (Owen Sound Sun Times)

QMJHL

The one, the only Willy Palov explains why Cape Breton's Evgeny Svechnikov is the league's must-watch rookie. (Halifax Chronicle-Herald)

Cody Donaghey, twice passed over in the NHL draft, has a unique opportunity to become a leader with the Memorial Cup-host Quebec Remparts. (Le Soleil)

Opportunity has knocked for Anthony Brodeur in Gatineau, but will the New Jersey Devils-drafted goalie be able to tear the door off the hinges? (Le Droit)

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