A crowded young blue line prevented Jake Bean from cracking his first National Hockey League roster. Despite not making the lineup, Bean’s stock only continues to rise. On Oct. 3, the Hurricanes reassigned the 13th overall pick from the 2016 NHL Entry Draft to the Calgary Hitmen. He appeared with […]
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Royals roll past Americans
After a Thanksgiving break the Victoria Royals (7-0-0-0) were back in action at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria Tuesday and they feasted on Tri-City Americans (3-4-0-0), winning 8-2. The Royals started the scoring quickly and did not let up throughout the game to stay perfect this season. The Tri-City Americans […]
Local goalie shuts down stagnant Hitmen
This was not the start Dallas Ferguson envisioned when he accepted the head coach position with the Calgary Hitmen last summer. The Hitmen have been stung by one-goal games early this season, but at the CN Centre in Prince George, the Cougars left no doubt, picking up the 7-1 decision […]
Message received
On Saturday night after the Red Deer Rebels lost 5-2 to the visiting Brandon Wheat Kings. Head coach Brent Sutter had some choice words about his team’s level of effort and their results after the game. Tonight the Red Deer Rebels (3-3-0-0) took on the Everett Silvertips (3-4-0-0) in their […]
Rockets Science
Six games into the Western Hockey league schedule and the Kelowna Rockets sit firmly in second place in the BC Division with a record of 4-1-0-1. A couple of sweeps, home-and-home against the Kamloops Blazers, then on the road against the Prince George Cougars account for the Rockets victories. Kelowna dominated […]
‘Round the DUB
An interesting week it has been around the WHL, from winning streaks ending, to losing streaks extended. Teams being sold and goals, goals and more goals. This is the week that was in the ‘DUB. On Oct. 4, the Seattle Thunderbirds were approved by the Board of Governors to be […]
Broncos win battle of unbeaten teams
By Matthew Gourlie The Swift Current Broncos have found a simple winning formula this season. The line of Tyler Steenbergen, Aleksi Heponiemi and Glenn Gadwin supply the goals. The rest of the team — led by their top-four veteran defencemen — clogged shooting and passing lanes to make life difficult […]
Blades pay the price for on-ice crime
By Les Lazaruk Before Saturday night, one thing the Saskatoon Blades had done reasonably well was stay out of the penalty box. Along came the first period and the Regina Pats made the Bridge City Bunch pay, big-time, for being undisciplined. Rookie Finnish forward Emil Oksanen had a hand […]
Tri-City Americans get first road win of the season
Langley, B.C. The Tri-City Americans (3-3-0-0) finally got into the win column on the road after starting the season 0-3 as the visiting team. After dropping to the Vancouver Giants (2-3-0-0) the night before, Tri-City was able to tighten up defensively for the second night of the back-to-back games and […]
Sosunov helps spark the Warriors
The Moose Jaw Warriors needed to lean on their penalty kill Friday before finally killing off the hopes of a stubborn Kootenay Ice squad in a 5-2 win. Trailing 1-0 late in the first period, the Warriors turned the game around by scoring a pair of goals 17 seconds apart […]