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The two faces of the Regina Pats organization – GM John Paddock and forward Connor Bedard – met with the media this week via Zoom to discuss the upcoming WHL season, pegged to begin January 8. Bedard, who’s recently returned from a lengthy training stint in Sweden, is anxious to […]
MEMORIAL CUPS, MARIO & NIGHTMARES: MOONLIGHTING, PART III With a complete absence of hockey right now at all levels, we present to you today many more hockey stories in Moonlighting, Part III, the final installment of our DUB Network series on famed SJHL, WHL, AHL, and NHL coach Lorne Molleken […]
PROBERT, PULFORD & MCPHEE: MOONLIGHTING, PART II Welcome to Moonlighting, Part II, the second installment of our three-part series chronicling the wild journey of famed hockey coach Lorne Molleken through the SJHL, WHL, AHL, and NHL. In Part I, the 64-year old Molleken, known universally as “Mooner”, discussed his junior […]
(PHOTO: Saskatoon Blades Hockey Club) It’s a long way from the pool hall in Weyburn, Saskatchewan to the Chicago Blackhawks bench at the United Center. But Lorne Molleken made it. In the latest installment of our pandemic-inspired series on legendary Western Canadian hockey figures, we check in on the man […]
Alan Millar is a busy man. With a delayed start to the 2020-21 Western Hockey League season (January 8), fans may think Dub staffers are sitting around twiddling their thumbs. But I can assure you that is most definitely not the case. In fact, Millar’s been kept busy not […]
By: Rod Pedersen Welcome to Shockey Hockey Part II where we’ll settle into some more hockey stories with Parry Shockey and allow the grizzled WHL coach (Spokane, Lethbridge, Regina & Moose Jaw) to get some things off his chest after 15 years away from the benches of the Dub. I […]
If there’s one thing we’ve learned through eight months or so of this pandemic, it’s that people love the hockey stories. Love, love, love them. What I find most amusing is that very few of the legendary tales actually include any stories from the ice! And nobody can spin a […]
(Fleury Family Photo courtesy Radio-Canada) 1 – The leaves have long turned orange and gold here in the Wheat Province and several have already fallen off the trees. That’s a sure sign that it should be hockey season around here but as we all know, it isn’t. After bathing my […]
1 – BEDARD TO SWEDEN: The biggest news in the Dub this week actually sent waves across the entire country. 15-year old Regina Pats phenom Connor Bedard is headed to Sweden to train with a team until the WHL season gets underway. The WHL’s first-ever Exceptional Player is going with […]
1 – VIVE LAS VEGAS: It seemed nobody saw Monday’s news coming that the AHL’s Henderson Silver Knights have hired WHL great Emanuel Viveiros as the franchise’s first-ever head coach. The San Antonio Rampage were purchased by Black Knight Sports & Entertainment this winter and moved to the Las Vegas […]
