Timbermen, Adanacs swap players

Tuesday the The Nanaimo Timbermen traded second-year player Russell Thomas to the Coquitlam Adanacs for defenceman Trevor Gains, who played for the Nanaimo Junior A Timbermen in 2009.
Gains played all 16 regular season games and one playoff game for the Adanacs in his rookie season last year.
Described as a hard-nosed, stay-at-home defender who can take faceoffs, Gains is expected to add some grit to Nanaimo's defensive core. Thomas asked to be traded to Greater Vancouver because he is studying at Simon Fraser University.