Hockey Alberta announced their U16 shortlist roster yesterday and all 30 players listed were selected by WHL teams in May’s bantam draft. Of the 30 players, 20 will be chosen to play for Hockey Alberta for late October’s Western Canada U16 Championships. Here is a list of the WHL drafted […]
Eastern Division
A “defensive” offseason in Saskatoon
SASKATOON – Here’s a few notable items to clear out before they burn a hole in my notebook — with help from the summer heat! *** Thanks to a July 6 trade with the Tri-City Americans, the Saskatoon Blades could potentially have eight defencemen with WHL experience on their training […]
Busy week for Wheat Kings players and management
NHL Development Camps Underway By the end of this week, there will have been a total of seven current Brandon Wheat Kings players take the ice wearing the logo of a National Hockey League team, doing their best to show case their talents in hopes of obtaining an invite 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 […]
Canada names camp invites for 3 National Teams.
It is that time of year again, Team Canada is getting themselves ready for upcoming tournaments by announcing rosters for training camps. The 2018 World Juniors will be held in December and January in Buffalo and Orchard Park, NY, USA. Canada would like to have a great showing after finishing […]
Unsigned NHL Draft Picks from 2015
With two weeks until the NHL teams need to sign their 2015 NHL Entry Draft picks, I thought it would be a good time to see who remains to be signed and by what teams. These players will be eligible to re-enter the draft if they are not signed by […]
WHL 2017 Bantam Draft Where You From
Regions Alberta – 73 BC – 61 Saskatchewan – 41 Manitoba – 26 Arizona – 7 Colorado – 6 Minnesota – 6 Texas – 3 California – 2 Alaska – 1 Kansas – 1 Nevada -1 North Dakota – 1 Washington – 1 Cities/Towns Calgary, AB – 15 Winnipeg, […]
Draft Geek Rankings Recap
For the purpose of this analysis I took every WHL team and tried to rate how they did on Bantam Draft Day based on the resident scouting team, Draft Geek’s rankings of players. For example, if a team took the 10th, 20th and 45th ranked players their total would be […]
WHL playoff recap: Home Ice proves Advantageous, Pats & T’birds up 3-2
Regina 5 Lethbridge 3 (Regina leads series 3-2) Game story: -Lethbridge’s Josh Tarzwell opened the scoring in this tilt, it was his first WHL playoff goal in his first game of this series. Later in the game he would take a hard body check against the boards and it looked […]