I’m not a very superstitious guy, but, “Friday the 13th” has become a day where I’d like to stay in bed and wait it out! The last, “Friday the 13th” had me wake up in a hotel room in my hometown of Winnipeg… …with a very empty feeling! The […]
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Rod Pedersen’s 10 DUB Things
1. It’s fantastic to be back covering the Western Hockey League on a meaningful basis for DUBNetwork! For those unfamiliar with the name, I was the Voice of the Prince Albert Raiders (1993-95) and Regina Pats (1995-2010) until being forced to choose between the Pats and Saskatchewan Roughriders back […]
Brandon Wheat Kings add 11
The Western Hockey League Bantam Draft was staged earlier than normal this year due to the season being cut short because of COVID-19. As a result, the draft went virtual and it was held last Wednesday with Connor Bedard going first overall to the Regina Pats. Prior to even […]
Top 5 Bantam Drafts in team history: Brandon Wheat Kings
With the 2020 WHL Bantam Draft coming tomorrow morning and all of us missing WHL hockey because of the current pandemic, we at DUBNetwork thought it would be fun to look at the past WHL Bantam Draft classes for all 22 teams and rank them. We will be posting these […]
Looking ahead to the 2020-21 WHL season: import situations
There is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the 2020-21 WHL season as a whole. Will it start on time? Will it happen at all? Will import players be able to come back to North America? It will be a while before we get any clarity on these three questions […]
Scott Walford moves on to the next challenge
Saskatoon Blades defenceman Scott Walford reflects on his junior hockey career and feels no regrets. “I think that being a junior hockey player, you want to make sure that you can say that at the end of your career that you left everything out there.” As he, like all […]
2020 DUBNetwork Awards: Coach of the year and Executive of the year for both conferences
This is the second season we have handed out awards for coach and executive of the year. As has been the case for us with these two awards, the votes were more spread out than with the player awards. Eastern Conference Executive of the Year: Matt Cockell, Winnipeg ICE […]
2020 DUBNetwork Player Awards: MVP, Rookie of the Year and Goalie and Defensemen of the Year
Western Conference MVP: Adam Beckman (Spokane Chiefs) Beckman ran away with this vote. Wolf was the closest to him but regardless the MVP for the Western Conference stays in the U.S. Division. Mathew Barzal (Seattle-2017), Carter Hart (Everett-2018) and Joachim Blichfeld (Portland-2019) were the previous winners of this award […]
DUBNetwork Awards Eastern Conference first, second and third teams
The 2019-20 WHL season came to an unexpected end with the outbreak of Covid-19 across North America and the world. That meant us at DUBNetwork had to scramble and put together our fourth annual awards. I reached out to our beat writers and those associated with the site and […]
This day in Blades history – March 24
With a rich history that stretches back to 1964, the Saskatoon Blades have been an integral part of hockey in Western Canada. They joined the WCHL in 1966 and have been the longest standing continual member of the WCHL/WHL. We will take this time to look back on a […]
