It’s over. After 72 games marking another WHL campaign, the Kootenay Ice wrapped up their season on a high note with a 5-0 win over the Red Deer Rebels. It’s a bittersweet way to close the year by winning with a convincing effort over a team that bypassed them in […]
Central Division
Ice gain small measure of revenge in Red Deer, down the Rebels 6-2.
The team that Red Deer passed for the final playoff spot came to the Enmax Centrium looking for some sense of revenge. Red Deer was attempting to do the unthinkable and pass the Lethbridge Hurricanes for home ice advantage in the first round of the WHL playoffs. The Ice entered […]
Hitmen chill Ice in shootout
As the season winds down and the Calgary Hitmen play out the string on what could be the fourth-worst season in franchise history, the club is playing decent hockey and borrowed a phrase from the legendary hip-hop group Cypress Hill, decideding that they “Ain’t goin’ out like that.” The Hitmen […]
2018 NHL draft profiles – Josh Tarzwell
Pressure. The dictionary defines it as a constraining or compelling force or influence. In hockey, pressure means those things and more. Playing major junior hockey, stepping up to perform, and being traded to your hometown Western Hockey League team. These are a few examples of the pressure faced by kids […]
Edmonton’s second period surge leads to win
The Lethbridge Hurricanes (32-30-6-0) made there way up north to face off against Central Division rivals the Edmonton Oil Kings (20-41-6-2). Lethbridge currently sits comfortably in a playoff spot, while the Oil Kings are seeded at the bottom of the division. Lethbridge started 20-year-old goaltender Logan Flodell whom they picked […]
Hitmen take game – Tigers take the Central Division title
Calgary 3 @Medicine Hat 1 This was probably not the way that the Medicine Hat Tigers (35-27-8-0) wanted to clinch the Central Division title. Despite dropping a 3-1 contest to the Calgary Hitmen (22-36-9-2), due to three, third period goals, a Lethbridge loss, sealed the ninth division title in Tigers franchise history. […]
Edmonton takes overtime win over Kootenay
The Kootenay Ice (25-38-5-1) made their way up north to face off against the Edmonton Oil Kings (20-41-6-2) in a Sunday afternoon game. Both teams out of the playoff picture and fighting for momentum going into next season with their young teams. Kootenay elected to go with their young 2000-born […]
Raiders just keep winning; this time in OT over the Hitmen
The Calgary Hitmen closed the book on their season series with a 4-3 overtime loss to the Prince Albert Raiders Saturday night at the Art Hauser Centre. Mark Kastelic broke the 20-goal barrier at the 9:02 mark of the third period on the power play when he took a pass from Tristen […]
Very little goes the Blades way Friday
By Les Lazaruk It was another Friday of watching a badly-wanted WHL playoff spot become even less likely for the Saskatoon Blades. Tristen Nielsen scored the winning goal on a breakaway in overtime – the third of the game for the 18-year-old product of Fort St. John, B.C., […]
WHL recap: Rassell nets his 50th and Tigers get the win; Raiders, Thunderbirds and Pats get key victories
Prince Albert 6 Moose Jaw 4 When you are the top seed in the WHL’s Eastern Conference and the playoffs are approaching, the last thing you want to have is the current team you are set to play against playing their best hockey of the entire season. Worse yet is […]