Daily Dose of the Dub: WHL cancels regular season, Winterhawks sign Cagnoni and more

WHL cancels regular season

The WHL announced the decision to cancel the remaining 54 games on the regular-season schedule due to COVID-19 concerns. However, the league says they will make every effort to conduct the 2020 WHL Playoffs at a later date. The final regular-season standings have been decided based on points percentage with the Portland Winterhawks winning the Scotty Munro Memorial Trophy as regular-season champions and the Seattle Thunderbirds securing the last spot for the 2020 WHL Playoffs. Paul Figler has more here. 

WHL teams start to release info for ticket buyers

With the announcement that the WHL regular season has been officially canceled, some teams have announced their policy for fans looking to be reimbursed for tickets to canceled games. Rather than go through each team’s policy, we have linked to their statement so that you can check out your team’s information for yourself.

Winterhawks sign Cagnoni 

The Portland Winterhawks have signed defenseman Luca Cagnoni to a WHL Education Contract. The Burnaby, BC native had been on the Winterhawks protected list since September of 2019. This season he captained the Burnaby Winter Club E15 team and scored seven goals with 22 assists in 34 games.

ICE rolling out team awards

The Winnipeg ICE will be slowly releasing its team awards for the 2019-20 season over the next few days. They kicked things off with the Unsung Hero award which went to Connor McClennon. In 42 games this season he had 21 goals and 28 assists.