The Moose Jaw Warriors remain comfortably in the black despite posting a loss for the 2016-17 fiscal year. The Warriors announced a loss of $463,566 for the year at their annual general meeting Wednesday afternoon. That loss was unsurprising after the club decided to invest $531,197 back into Mosaic Place […]
Author: Matthew Gourlie
2017-18 season previews: Moose Jaw Warriors
Moose Jaw Warriors (2016-17 record: 42-21-8-2, 93 points, second in the East Division. Lost in seven games to Swift Current in the first round of the playoffs) Hockey fans in Moose Jaw come by their cynicism naturally. As the Moose Jaw Warriors enter their 34th season of Western Hockey League […]
White looking to resurrect WHL career
Jaeger White hasn’t had much good fortune so far in his Western Hockey League career. Now the 19-year-old is looking to make his own luck. A pair of shoulder injuries limited his ice time as a 16 and 17 year old and after undergoing shoulder surgery he played two games […]
Warriors win third straight as roster battles intensify
By Matthew Gourlie The Moose Jaw Warriors won their third straight pre-season game Saturday with a 6-2 win over the Medicine Hat Tigers. With both teams missing more than half of their returning veterans it was a chance for players on the bubble of making the roster to make their […]
Warriors blanked in rookie game
By Matthew Gourlie The Swift Current Broncos ended the Moose Jaw Warriors in Game 7 of the first round of last year’s playoffs at Mosaic Place. On Tuesday, the Broncos opened the 2017-18 Western Hockey League pre-season with a 4-0 win over the Warriors in the team’s annual rookie game. […]
Newcomers bolster Warriors blue line
By Matthew Gourlie With 18 returning veterans, there were plenty of familiar faces at the Moose Jaw Warriors training camp. It was a pair of new faces on the blue line that drew a lot of attention though. Rookie Russian import Oleg Sosunov was stuck in Tampa Bay waiting for […]
Moose Jaw Warriors notebook: looking at the potential depth chart
With their training camp opening Thursday, it’s a good time to look at a possible depth chart for the Moose Jaw Warriors heading into the 2017-18 Western Hockey League season. The Warriors have 18 returning players and four more with at least a game of WHL experience. They look to […]
East Division contenders look for gems in Import Draft
The Memorial Cup hosts were one of the busiest teams during the Canadian Hockey League’s annual import draft. The Regina Pats selected at the end of each of the draft’s two rounds, but used both of their picks to try to replace Filip Ahl and Sergey Zborovskiy. The Pats closed […]
Brook one of six Warriors headed to NHL summer camps
Josh Brook had a memorable Saturday. In the morning he was selected in the second round, 56th overall, by the Montréal Canadiens in the National Hockey League draft. That night he graduated from Goose Lake High School in Roblin, Man. The six-foot-one, 185-pound defenceman shot up draft boards as the […]
WHL Eastern Conference final preview: Lethbridge Hurricanes vs. Regina Pats
History has a funny way of repeating itself. Last season, the Regina Pats opened the Western Hockey League playoffs by disposing of the heavily-favoured Lethbridge Hurricanes. Now in the Eastern Conference final, the Canes would love to return the favour against the top-ranked team in the Canadian Hockey League. “They’re […]