WHL regular season schedule released Earlier today the WHL dropped the schedule for the 2017-18 season. What is different about this year is that the 72-game schedule was cut down to 68. The season gets underway on Friday, September 21st. The defending WHL champion Swift Current Broncos will raise their […]
Tag: Kootenay Ice
Ice sign trio of top prospects
Kootenay’s top prospect put ink to paper last week, as defenceman Carson Lambos signed a standard WHL contract to take another step on his journey towards major-junior hockey. The club held a small ceremony in the Ice dressing room at Western Financial Place, where Lambos committed his future to the […]
Kootenay Ice ‘Drive to 25’ campaign continues
It may be the offseason but that doesn’t mean the Kootenay Ice are resting on their laurels. Team staff and mascots were out and about at three different community events on Saturday this past weekend in Cranbrook as the club continues their Drive to 25 season ticket campaign. First was […]
Ice get their top-ranked player with Lambos
For Carson Lambos, Thursday was just another school day at Rink Hockey Academy in Winnipeg. However, just after his metalworking class began, the young 15-year-old defenceman learned he had been selected second overall by the Kootenay Ice in the WHL Bantam draft. Lambos said he kept up his regular routine […]
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. […]
Kootenay Ice look to build for the future
While the season just ended for the Kootenay Ice, Matt Cockell is already thinking about next year. “We’ve got a lot of work we want to do over the offseason,” said Cockell, Kootenay’s president and GM, “a lot of lofty goals off the ice that are really important as well […]
Ice shut out Rebels to close out season
It’s over. After 72 games marking another WHL campaign, the Kootenay Ice wrapped up their season on a high note with a 5-0 win over the Red Deer Rebels. It’s a bittersweet way to close the year by winning with a convincing effort over a team that bypassed them in […]
Ice gain small measure of revenge in Red Deer, down the Rebels 6-2.
The team that Red Deer passed for the final playoff spot came to the Enmax Centrium looking for some sense of revenge. Red Deer was attempting to do the unthinkable and pass the Lethbridge Hurricanes for home ice advantage in the first round of the WHL playoffs. The Ice entered […]
Hitmen chill Ice in shootout
As the season winds down and the Calgary Hitmen play out the string on what could be the fourth-worst season in franchise history, the club is playing decent hockey and borrowed a phrase from the legendary hip-hop group Cypress Hill, decideding that they “Ain’t goin’ out like that.” The Hitmen […]
Edmonton takes overtime win over Kootenay
The Kootenay Ice (25-38-5-1) made their way up north to face off against the Edmonton Oil Kings (20-41-6-2) in a Sunday afternoon game. Both teams out of the playoff picture and fighting for momentum going into next season with their young teams. Kootenay elected to go with their young 2000-born […]
