Early in the season, most WHL teams are trying to figure out their identities. With teams like the Swift Current Broncos and the Red Deer Rebels looking at 2018-19 as a rebuilding or retooling year, they may not find their identities until the Christmas break or later. Both teams are […]
Tag: Red Deer Rebels
Daily Dose of the Dub: WHL hands out pair of suspensions; Rebels release Paradis
Rebels release Paradis The Rebels have released 20-year old defenceman Colin Paradis. The team is down to 3, 20-year old players. Jeff de Wit, Brandon Hagel, and Reese Johnson are the team's 20's. We wish Colin all the best moving forward. pic.twitter.com/6mqpqS0WYG — Red Deer Rebels (@Rebelshockey) September 22, 2018 […]
Trey Fix-Wolansky, Rebel killer
One team was very happy with their weekend, the other less so. The Edmonton Oil Kings got off on the right foot this weekend, scoring 4-2 and 4-1 victories over the Red Deer Rebels. It was recent returnee Trey Fix-Wolansky’s efforts that brought the Oil Kings four early points as […]
2018-19 WHL Season Previews: Red Deer Rebels
It’s that time of year again! We at the DubNetwork always try to come up with a new order for previews each year and this season we are going with least recent to most recent Ed Chynoweth Cups for our order of previews. They will run 2-to-3 a day until […]
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 […]
Rebels busy making deals
It was announced earlier today that the Red Deer Rebels have traded forward Brandon Cutler to the Victoria Royals along with a 2019 2nd round draft pick, in exchange for 16-year-old forward Dallon Melin and a 5th round selection in the 2019 bantam draft. Melin is from nearby Camrose, AB […]
Hagel leads Team White over Team Black to wrap up Rebels training camp
When Brandon Hagel spoke to Troy Gillard of RDNewsNow.ca earlier this week, he sounded like he was prepared to take this season and push, pull and drag the Rebels through what many expected to be a tougher season. Tonight he showed the faithful Rebels fans that he means what he […]
Rebels key to success lies in its defense
When the dust settled at the end of the 2017-18 WHL regular season, the Red Deer Rebels were playoff bound. Despite playing a string of hockey where the team only won one game in 25 attempts, the team shrugged off the poor play and began to gel into a team […]
WHL training camp roster notes
We have already done deep dives on the training camp rosters for the Regina Pats, Moose Jaw Warriors, Tri-City Americans and the Portland Winterhawks. Lets continues that trend with a look at 11 more WHL teams training camp rosters. There are some notable names missing and there are a few […]