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He’s certainly not complaining, but the Calgary Flames made summer a whole lot more strenuous for Turner Elson.

Age is a state of mind.Ask the Red Deer Rebels, who iced a considerably younger and more inexperienced team than the Swift Current Broncos did Monday, yet prevailed 5-4 on Marc McCoy’s third goal of the game at 4:31 of overtime.

Chase McMurphy might be the big, fast fish that got away.Either that, or he’s a player who may never realize his true potential.

Red Deer Rebels GM/coach Jesse Wallin predicted — and was hoping — that this year’s training camp would be a highly-competitive affair.He wasn’t disappointed.

His brother, Wacey, was a captain with the Medicine Hat Tigers and parlayed his four seasons in the Western Hockey League into a pro contract with the Ottawa Senators.

No one had to ask Western Hockey League reigning rookie of the year Mathew Dumba what he did this summer, at least during August.

Red Deer Rebels prospective No. 1 goaltender Patrik Bartosak doesn’t sound like he’ll be feeling homesick any time soon.

By his own admission, 2011 first-round WHL bantam draft pick Conner Bleackley wasn’t at his best during Sunday’s first rookie sessions of the Red Deer Rebels training camp.Clearly, the best is yet to come.

The Red Deer Riggers couldn’t have asked for a better start to the Canadian senior AAA baseball championships.

With as many as 17 veterans set to register for Red Deer Rebels training camp Saturday at the Centrium, the list of available jobs for the 2011-12 Western Hockey League season is indeed short.