Byron Hackett with the Red Deer Advocate joined us looking at the WHL’s Central Division & what we should look for this season (hint: lots of Lethbridge)
Tag: Calgary Hitmen
2018-19 WHL season previews: Calgary Hitmen
Calgary Hitmen 2017-18: The 2017-18 season for the Calgary Hitmen will be remembered as one of the few rebuilding years in franchise history. It was clear early that the Hitmen wouldn’t be contenders even in a down year for the Central Division, so the great sell off began early. The […]
Daily Dose of the Dub: ICE and Blades make some roster changes; Yeryomenko on his way back from Nashville
Kootenay lets go of Wegleitner; reassigns Lieffers and Streu ICE reduce roster to 26. READ >> https://t.co/DzXrU6xSpZ#OurICE pic.twitter.com/MRdrHGgoeo — Kootenay ICE (@WHLKootenayICE) September 17, 2018 The Kootenay ICE announced Monday that they had trimmed forwards Gunnar Wegleitner, Sebastian Streu and Eli Lieffers from their roster. The press release stated that […]
Sanders reassigned; other Calgary Hitmen roster battles
Following last year’s frenetic trade deadline, Calgary Hitmen GM Jeff Chynoweth said of newly acquired 19-year-old netminder Nick Sanders, “we feel Nick can not only help us push for a playoff spot this season but audition to be one of our three overages next year.” The only issue was that […]
Daily Dose of the Dub: Berlin and Sanders reassigned, Cougars sign Kohner
Kootenay reassigns their 1998-born goalie The ICE have reassigned goaltender Matt Berlin. READ >> https://t.co/s9ewnChwAJ#OurICE pic.twitter.com/nHWxozgzsx — Kootenay ICE (@WHLKootenayICE) September 11, 2018 The Kootenay ICE got down to four 20-year-olds Tuesday by reassigning goalie Matt Berlin. The 1998-born netminder was brought to Cranbrook in a trade with the Seattle […]
Daily Dose of the Dub: Rosters getting trimmed
As the second week of the preseason in the WHL gets rolling along, teams are starting to trim down their rosters. While a vast majority of players being removed from the rosters, are 15 or 16-year-olds, there will be a few veteran names included. Chiefs see Hamaliuk and Chenier leave […]
WHL Players off to NHL Camps
The beginning of the WHL season brings a lot of hope, and optimism for teams, fans and players. The Western Hockey League is always well represented at NHL training camps so it will come as no surprise that this year 115 WHL’ers will be making the best impressions they can at […]
Fiddler-Schultz, Huber show well in pre-season
A couple younger members of the Calgary Hitmen are impressing with solid starts to the pre-season. With many returning roster spots potentially up for grabs, some of the guys that could be on the bubble this year stepped up with strong games in the Hitmen’s pair of victories last weekend […]
New year, somewhat same crew for the Hitmen
There is a lot of familiarity on the Calgary Hitmen pre-season roster. At the end of training camp, new Head Coach Steve Hamilton said that he intentionally avoided talking about players with other staff members to develop his own opinions about the roster. Hamilton must have liked what was already […]
Sorting through the Hitmen’s main camp roster
Like any Western Hockey League training camp, there are plenty of questions surrounding different parts of a new roster. Last year the Calgary Hitmen had to work through a logjam with the overage category, but the team was fairly certain on the starting netminder job and whom the two imported […]