Nolan Ritchie grew up watching Brandon Wheat Kings games. Whether it was a preseason game, a regular-season game or a playoff game, there’s a good chance that Nolan was at the arena watching it live. Born in Brandon on May 27, 2002, it didn’t take him long to pick up […]
Author: Darnell Duff
Wheat Kings look ahead after even preseason
September 20, the night many coaches of WHL teams, fans of the league, general managers and so many more have been waiting for. The curtain on the 2019-2020 regular season will rise with seven games across the league. One of the games is the newly created “Manitoba Battle” as the […]
ICE drop preseason finale
The Winnipeg ICE will be happy to be back home after they dropped their second straight game against Saskatoon on Saturday night. Saskatoon used two goals each in the second and third as they convincingly picked up their fourth preseason win by a 6-2 scoreline. Cyle McNabb opened up the […]
Wheat Kings offence goes quiet in loss
The Brandon Wheat Kings welcomed back Jiri Patera on Saturday night as they hosted the Moose Jaw Warriors in the back half of a home-and-home at Westoba Place. The game wrapped up the preseason for both teams and Moose Jaw will head into the regular season with a sense of […]
2019-20 WHL Season Previews: Winnipeg ICE
In a year that was their last in Kootenay, the ICE struggled heavily. They went 13-45-7-3, finishing second last in the Eastern Conference. Luckily, that was then, and not one single statistic from last year rolls over to this year. Not even the fact that the club played their games […]
ICE start slow in loss against Blades
The Winnipeg ICE battled, but they got in too deep of a hole as they dropped their second preseason game on Friday night, 4-3 to the Saskatoon Blades inside Sasktel Centre. For the past two seasons, it’s been the Kirby Dach show for Saskatoon. In that time, Kirby put up […]
Greig pushes Wheat Kings’ past Warriors’
Ridly Greig recorded a four-point game, two other players had two points and the Brandon Wheat Kings picked up their second preseason win on Friday night as they beat Moose Jaw, 5-2 at Mosaic Place. The win moved Brandon to 1-1 on the road in the preseason after they lost […]
2019-20 WHL Season Previews: Brandon Wheat Kings
The excitement for WHL hockey fans and teams continues to build as the regular season is just one week away. Starting on September 20, 14 of the teams in the league will take to the ice to begin their 2019-20 regular-season campaigns. The night’s schedule includes two all-Saskatchewan battles (Saskatoon […]
Rockets’ Liwiski to push for career year
Just like so many Canadians, Mark Liwiski grew up playing the game of hockey, with a goal of making to the big stage. In his hometown of Dauphin, Manitoba, his first taste of competitive hockey came in the 2014-15 season when he was just 13-years-old and he played for the […]
Success starts in net for Wheat Kings
When the Brandon Wheat Kings opened up their training camp over the Labour Day long weekend, a face that is a fan favourite around town was returning. Tyler Plante is once again the team’s goaltenders coach, and he will be so for the fourth straight season. He started his junior […]