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 […]
Eastern Division
WHL playoff second round preview: Swift Current Broncos vs. Regina Pats
The Swift Current Broncos’ first playoff series win in nine years was a cause for celebration. While the Broncos celebrated inside following their 3-2 Game 7 win over the Moose Jaw Warriors Monday, a truck full of Broncos fans did a lap around the arena blaring “We Are The Champions” […]
Game Day Playoff Edition 1
Welcome to the first of many game day previews for the duration of the playoffs. We will take a look at matchups throughout the playoffs and focus in on some players who have made an impact in their series. Medicine Hat Tigers lead 2-0 in their series with the Brandon […]
WHL playoff round one preview: Calgary Hitmen vs. Regina Pats
The Regina Pats were the best team in the Canadian Hockey League throughout the season. Still, they felt there was room for improvement. When the Pats lost four straight games it was the right time to buy into some changes that head coach/general manager John Paddock wanted to see. […]
WHL playoff round one preview: Swift Current Broncos vs. Moose Jaw Warriors
Given their proximity, it has always been surprising that there hasn’t been more of a rivalry between the Moose Jaw Warriors and Swift Current Broncos. Sure there’s plenty of division-rival animosity, but neither team would consider the other their main foe. That may change starting Friday. One of the […]
Interview With Jordan Papirny of the Swift Current Broncos
DUBNetwork works to conduct interviews with different people who are directly involved (or have been involved) in the Western Hockey League in some capacity. This includes players, prospects, alumni, team personnel and staff, radio personnel, trainers etc. We then proceed to post the transcript of the interview for our fans […]
PDO
Which WHL teams are the strongest when you combine shooting percentage plus save percentage? These stats include overtime goals and shots but does not include shootouts. Team SH% SV% PDO Tri City 12.8% 89.6% 102.4% Kamloops 10.2% 92.2% 102.4% Regina 12.0% 90.3% 102.2% Lethbridge 12.2% 89.8% 102.0% Moose Jaw 10.9% […]
Even Strength
Which teams are the best at even strength? To calculate this we have removed PP goals for and against, SH goals for and against and only used stats from regulation time. Here are the rankings. Team ESGF ESGA Total Regina 233 131 102 Medicine Hat 238 183 55 Prince George […]
PP & PK
Which WHL teams are the strongest on the specialty teams? This is a simple equation of combining the teams PP % and PK %. Team PP PK Total Regina 31.5 81.4 112.9% Medicine Hat 29.4 81.6 111.0% Everett 20.8 85.8 106.6% Seattle 22.2 83.3 105.5% Kelowna 25.2 80.1 105.3% […]
Shootout History
2016-17 marks the 12th season the WHL has used the shootout format. There has been 873 shootouts in WHL history. The first year there were 94 shootouts, the most in one season. Before switching to 3-on-3 overtime last season the WHL averaged 78 shootouts a season. Last year there 43 […]