* Spitfires lose Bailey: Windsor will continue its quest for an OHL championship without one of its top offensive weapons. Center Josh Bailey, 19, will remain with the New York Islanders for the rest of the season, according to the NHL’s Web site. The Islanders selected Bailey ninth overall in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in June and then signed him to a three-year, entry-level contract in early October.
Bailey has no goals and five points in nine games with the Islanders entering Saturday night’s game against Ottawa. Once he played on Saturday, Bailey became ineligible to return to the Spitfires.
He had 29 goals and 96 points in 67 games with the Spitfires last season. He had 58 goals and 183 points in 191 games with Windsor and Owen Sound from 2005-08. He scored five goals in a game against the Otters on Oct. 28, 2006 while playing for Owen Sound. That remains an Otters’ single-game record. Bailey leaves a Spitfires’ club that has a league-best 23-3-0-0 record this season.

* Around the rink: The Otters scratched rookie center Josh Sidwell, left wing Michael Liambas (hip flexor) and defenseman Robyn Sertic (concussion). … Mississauga scratched left wing William Wallen and center Rob Flick.

– Victor Fernandes