Friday night was a special night inside of Westoba Place in the Wheat City for a couple of reasons. The first being the Wheat Kings would be playing their first home game in just about three weeks. The second being Ethan Kruger. Kruger made 24 saves to pick up his […]
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Sawchuk elevating junior career to next level with Oil Kings
The question many people had coming into the 2019/20 Oil Kings season was how much of an impact could the offseason addition of Riley Sawchuk have on a team that was facing quite a bit of transition on their roster? Everyone knew the Oil Kings would have to find scoring […]
ICE win shootout thriller against Canes’
After a slow start to the season on home ice, the Winnipeg ICE are definitely happy to call the Wayne Fleming Arena home. The team beat the Lethbridge Hurricanes on Wednesday night in a shootout, 4-3 in front of another great crowd as the WHL makes a return to Winnipeg. […]
ICE prospect Geekie shines under bright lights
Weekday hockey, something the Winnipeg ICE will experience for the first time this week. They will welcome the Lethbridge Hurricanes to town on Wednesday for the first of two straight against the Canes’. Wednesday’s game will be the first time the ICE has played not on a weekend. Winnipeg will […]
Wheat Kings return home
Seven games in 11 days, that’s what the Brandon Wheat Kings went through over the past couple of weeks. It began on October 16th in Everett, Washington with a 3-2 loss against the Silvertips. A handful of games later, thousands of miles later, and some ups and downs later, the […]
Ginnell Scores First, Wheaties Win
The Brandon Wheat Kings longest road trip of the season wasn’t perfect, however, they did end things on a high note. On a night where a Riley Ginnell scored his first goal of his Western Hockey League career, the Wheat Kings beat the Swift Current Broncos handily, 5-1 on Saturday […]
Lambos elevating his game with ICE
When Carson Lambos was drafted by the Kootenay Ice in the 2018 WHL Bantam Draft, there was an expectation for him to do big things for the franchise moving forward. Kootenay selected Carson with their second overall pick, right after Dylan Guenther was taken first. From that day on, Carson […]
Chiefs smoke Wheat Kings
On Tuesday night, the Brandon Wheat Kings came out guns blazing as they hammered Tri-City 10-2. On Wednesday night, the club rolled into Spokane to challenge the Chiefs for the first time this season in a game the team will surely want to forget. Adam Beckman had one goal and […]
Chiefs leaning on depth with key injuries
The Spokane Chiefs (5-4-1-0) split a two-game set up in Prince George last week. They outshot the Cougars 38-24 and 38-19 in the two games but ended up only heading home with two points. Friday, October 18th: Prince George 2 Spokane 1 Taylor Gauthier was the number one star on […]
Hurricanes power play kills Rebels
When you are a young team, not everything goes your way. Sometimes when one thing is clicking, something else isn’t. Then, the next time out, the thing you worked on in practice gets better, but something else lags behind. That’s the way the wind blew for Red Deer as the […]