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By Les Lazaruk SWIFT CURRENT – A first career hat-trick, a first goal of the season and a first “stolen” win highlighted a badly-needed 4-3 victory for the Saskatoon Blades Friday night. Cam Hebig scored the only three goals of the second period, Tyler Lees tallied what turned out […]
The Kootenay Ice clawed back from three straight deficits to force extra time and overcome the Swift Current Broncos 5-4 on Saturday at Western Financial Place. Colton Kroeker was the overtime hero, completing a three-point night with the game-winning goal while also collecting two assists in regulation. Ice captain Cale […]
By Matthew Gourlie The Swift Current Broncos have found a simple winning formula this season. The line of Tyler Steenbergen, Aleksi Heponiemi and Glenn Gadwin supply the goals. The rest of the team — led by their top-four veteran defencemen — clogged shooting and passing lanes to make life difficult […]
By Les Lazaruk They knew what they had to do against Swift Current’s big line. Yet, the Saskatoon Blades didn’t have a good answer for what the Broncos were bringing. The Broncos forward unit of Tyler Steenbergen, Glenn Gawdin and Aleksi Heponiemi combined for 11 of 16 scoring points, five of […]
The rosters for the 2017 U16 WHL Cup were announced and nearly every WHL team had a draft pick named. Let’s take a look at those 2002-born players that will be participating in the WHL Cup in Calgary later this month. U-16 Oct 18-22, 2017 in Calgary, Alb BC […]
The 2017-18 WHL season is underway and with that comes something we all missed this summer: Boxscores. Though teams are only 3-5 games in, there are some good signs early on as to who will carry the offensive workload for their clubs this season. Though scoring only paints part of […]
With the season underway, teams are making final adjustments to their rosters. The key deadline here is October 10th, the day that all WHL teams must be at three overage players. By then most teams will have played six regular season games. Tavin Grant of the Prince George Cougars recorded […]
Swift Current 7 Brandon 2 It was the Tyler Steenbergen show in this one as the fourth-year Sylvan Lake, AB product lit up the Brandon Wheat Kings tonight in Brandon. Five times Steenbergen hit the scoresheet, posting a career high four goals and adding an assist. His carrier high is […]
By Les Lazaruk There is no disputing that the Saskatoon Blades do a great job with pre-game ceremonies. However, the paying customers don’t get the “full meal deal” from the team on the ice afterwards. An emotional 45-minute salute to former Blades’ captain Bruce Gordon…and the re-introduction of the […]
(In our ongoing season preview series, we now present to you the Swift Current Broncos) Swift Current Broncos: (2016-17 regular season: 39-23-4-6 88 points, lost in the East Division Final to the Regina Pats in 7 games) Playing in what many expect to be the toughest division in the WHL […]
