The Moose Jaw Warriors scored early on Friday night, and they held Brandon off the scoreboard for the entire night as they blanked the Wheat Kings 5-0 inside of Westoba Place. On a night where Brandon put up just 22 shots, they couldn’t really get anything going, and Bailey Brkin […]
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ICE start slow in loss against Blades
The Winnipeg ICE battled, but they got in too deep of a hole as they dropped their second preseason game on Friday night, 4-3 to the Saskatoon Blades inside Sasktel Centre. For the past two seasons, it’s been the Kirby Dach show for Saskatoon. In that time, Kirby put up […]
Greig pushes Wheat Kings’ past Warriors’
Ridly Greig recorded a four-point game, two other players had two points and the Brandon Wheat Kings picked up their second preseason win on Friday night as they beat Moose Jaw, 5-2 at Mosaic Place. The win moved Brandon to 1-1 on the road in the preseason after they lost […]
2019-20 WHL Season Previews: Brandon Wheat Kings
The excitement for WHL hockey fans and teams continues to build as the regular season is just one week away. Starting on September 20, 14 of the teams in the league will take to the ice to begin their 2019-20 regular-season campaigns. The night’s schedule includes two all-Saskatchewan battles (Saskatoon […]
ICE forward Krebs thrilled to join Golden Knights
This year’s NHL Draft was held at Rogers Arena in Vancouver on June 21-22. The first Canadian chosen was Kirby Dach of the Saskatoon Blades, who went to the Chicago Blackhawks. Next up was Vancouver Giants defenseman Bowen Byram. Dylan Cozens was the next Canadian up, as the Buffalo Sabres […]
Random WHL Stats as of February 6
If the playoffs started today … Regina vs Saskatoon (Pats lead season series 3-0-1-0) Medicine Hat vs Brandon (Tigers lead the season series 2-1) Moose Jaw vs Swift Current (Warriors lead the season series 2-1) Lethbridge vs Red Deer (Hurricanes lead the season series 4-0-1-0, 1 of the wins was […]
WHL Point A Game Players January 22/17
Rank Name Team GP G A PTS +/- PTS/G 1 Steel, Sam REG 38 34 49 83 34 2.18 2 Brooks, Adam REG 38 25 55 […]
WHL 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 32.8 80.9 113.7% Everett 24.8 87.8 112.6% Medicine Hat 28 81.1 109.1% Tri City 26.4 81.5 107.9% Portland 25.8 79.9 105.7% […]
Lists: Team Edition January 18, 2017
Most Fights Vancouver Giants – 31 Spokane Chiefs – 30 Kelowna Rockets – 28 Lethbridge Hurricanes – 27 Least Fights Everett Silvertips – 8 Portland Winterhawks – 9 Seattle Thunderbirds – 14 Tri-City Americans – 15 Most 1st Period Goals Regina Pats – 71 Lethbridge Hurricanes – 64 Portland Winterhawks […]
Does Your Birthdate Matter?
In 2011 Malcom Gladwell’s book “Outlier: The Story Of Success” he has a chapter on hockey and how much of an advantage is it for kids to be born earlier in the year. As you know in minor hockey you are grouped in your birth year but kids born in […]
