Today's two-a-day WHL preview takes us to familiar territory (for this scribe) and the Portland Winterhawks. They led the WHL in goals scored with 328 goals and gave up 229 goals. They finished second in the U.S. Division of the Western Conference, but found themselves in the WHL Finals once again, only to fall in seven games to the Edmonton Oil Kings. Their scoring attack saw three players in the top 20, Ty Rattie (Blues), Sven Baertschi (Flames), and Brad Ross (Maple Leafs), and recent history has seen five players drafted in the first round in the past three NHL Drafts (Ryan Johansen, Nino Niederreiter, Baertschi, Joe Morrow, and Derrick Pouliot). Among the NHL players to have called the Rose City home include Marian Hossa, Cam Neely, Adam Deadmarsh, and Paul Gaustad.
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