I bet you guys are super shocked at the amount of T-birds from the Championship team is on this list. Well, winning puts you in rarified company, where the legacy they left hangs from the rafters of the Access ShoWare Center. I’ll admit, I’ve been guilty of regency bias from […]
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Top 19 Thunderbirds; A completely subjective list you will certainly disagree with. Continued.
Remember when I said this was going to be a list about my (not necessarily your) top 19 Thunderbirds? Well, I’m going to level with you, because not all of them are going to technically be Thunderbirds. In fact, the next guy on our list was never a Thunderbird at […]
Top 19 Thunderbirds; A completely subjective list you will certainly disagree with. Continued.
Sunday, May 14th, 2017. A hockey game was being played in Regina, Saskatchewan at the Brandt Center. It was early into overtime of Game 6 of the WHL championship series between the Seattle Thunderbirds and Regina Pats when defenseman, Aaron Hyman moved the puck to Keegan Kolesar on the boards […]
Top 19 Seattle Thunderbirds; A completely subjective list you will certainly disagree with. Continued.
Welcome back to my silly list, everyone! Today, we look at who I’ve slotted into the 18 spot on my top 19 Seattle players. First, to everyone reading this list, I must make one thing abundantly clear. I like fighting in hockey. I always have, I always will, and there […]
Top 19 Seattle Thunderbirds; A subjective list you will certainly disagree with!
Oh, the dog days of summer, well, spring, I guess. Anyway, the Thunderbirds season has come to an end. We see overagers move on and we look forward to fresh faces coming in. For me, after every season, I think back on what kind of legacy players have left. Over […]
Seattle’s look toward the future
Major junior hockey, at best, is cyclical. In a league where there are age restrictions, you will see players gradate and younger player take their place. This is important to remember, especially for Seattle fans, with the team in the second year of a rebuild. For Seattle’s fans, remembering that […]
A tale of two seasons: The 2018-2019 Seattle Thunderbirds
When the final seconds of the third period were ticking off the clock at the Accesso ShoWare Center on Saturday evening during game six of the Western Conference Quarter-Final match-up between the one seed Vancouver Giants and the second Wild Card team, the Seattle Thunderbirds fans in attendance did not […]