Swift Current Broncos portion provided by beat writer Traci Kay: 1993. That was the last time the Swift Current Broncos made it to the WHL final. With powerful players such as Todd Holt, Rick Girard, Jeff Kirwin, Kevin Powell, and Ian Gordon, the Broncos ended up winning the WHL Championship […]
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Carter Hart wins third straight Goaltender of the Year award
– Red Deer, AB For the first time in Western Hockey League history, a single person has won the Goaltender of the Year trophy for the third season in a row. Philadelphia Flyers prospect and Everett Silvertips starting netminder, Carter Hart, was once again the recipient of the accolades. Despite […]
Seattle Thunderbirds Notebook- who returns next year?
With the WHL Bantam Draft going tomorrow, let’s take a look at who the Seattle Thundebrirds already have in their system and who is likely to return for the 2018-19 season. They will lose Austin Strand and Turner Ottenbreit from the blue line and Donovan Neuls from the top-six forward […]
Everett’s incredible comeback eliminates Tri-City and gives them first birth in WHL final in 15 years
The magical run continues for the Everett Silvertips. On Monday night in Game 6 against in the Tri-City Americans, they overcame a rare off night from their award-winning goalie and a three-goal third period deficit, to win in overtime 6-5 and capture their first Western Conference championship since 2004 – […]
Bantam Draft history for each WHL team’s 2018 draft position
The WHL Bantam Draft is just three days away. It’s always fun to look at the past for each team in the draft and a good way of doing that is to look back at who each team took in past years with the pick number they have this year. […]
American force Game 6 with 5-2 victory in Everett
Everett, Wa. The Tri-City Americans (10-3) were in unfamiliar territory coming into Saturday night’s Western Conference playoff game number five. They were facing elimination for just the first time this postseason. Dropping Game 3 and 4 at home had put them in this position and now they had a steep […]
Isaac Johnson is looking to extend his long rookie year
On a roster with NHL-drafted talent like Michael Rasmussen, Juuso Vålimåki, Jake Bean, Kyle Olson and Morgan Geekie, it can be easy to overlook Tri-City Americans forward Isaac Johnson. If you are an opponent in the WHL though, you do so at your own peril. The 1999-born Johnson, in his […]
Everett stays perfect on the road in the playoffs with 3-1 victory in Game 4
Behind 29 stops on 30 shots by goalie Carter Hart, the Everett Silvertips accomplished something that now has only been done five times over the past 13 years in the WHL and that is win your first six games on the road in the WHL playoffs. More importantly with their […]
Bajkov and Everett’s depth come through as they beat Tri-City 8-4 in Game 3
To go on a long playoff run in hockey you need your ore unknown players to step up in big games. It also helps when they do that on the same night your star scorer has the best playoff game in his career. Patrick Bajkov netted his first career playoff […]
Tri-City bounces back with 5-3 win in Game 2 over Everett
The way that the Everett Silvertips jumped all over the Tri-City Americans in Game 1 could possibly be explained by the fact that the Americans had been off for nine days after making quick work of the Victoria Royals in round two and had to get their legs under them […]