Left-to-right, top-to-bottom: Mac Carruth, Rob Flick, Mirko Hoefflin and Byron Froese.
A quartet of the Blackhawks prospects remain in the Memorial Cup mix across all three of the Canadian Hockey League member leagues – the Western Hockey, Ontario Hockey and Québec Major Junior Hockey League.
Rob Flick of the OHL’s Mississauga St. Michael’s Majors has 8 points (3G, 5A), 15 PIM and a +4 rating through the team’s first eight playoff games, including this goal in Game 3 (at 1:17 of video). Mississauga swept the Belleville Bulls and Sudbury Wolves in the first two rounds of the OHL playoffs and now awaits the winner of the Niagara IceDogs and Oshawa Generals in the Eastern Conference Final – the winner of which they will play for the OHL title.
In the WHL, both Blackhawks representatives find themselves on opposite ends of a 3-1 series. Portland Winterhawks goaltender Mac Carruth has won 7-of-8 games in the postseason so far, including one shutout, 2.75 GAA and .920 SV%, as Portland holds a 3-1 series lead over the Kelowna Rockets in the second round.
Byron Froese helped his Red Deer Rebels avoid a sweep from the Medicine Hat Tigers in the WHL’s second round as he netted the only goal in a 1-0 victory (at 2:26 of video). Froese has 5 points (4G, A), 4 PIM and a +1 plus/minus in eight postseason tilts.
The Blackhawks’ sixth-round pick in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, Mirko Hoefflin has 10 points (2G, 8A), 6 PIM and a plus-8 through eight games for the Québec Ramparts of the QMJHL. Québec leads the Shawinigan Cataractes in their second-round, best-of-four series 3-1.
The winning club of all three leagues will play for the CHL’s coveted Mastercard Memorial Cup, along with Mississauga, which gets an automatic bid as this year’s host city. The four teams will race for the Memorial Cup May 19-29.
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