Totals as of January 10th 4:09pm PST Trades: 28 Players: 44 Draft Picks: 36 Conditional Draft Picks: 6 January 10th Trades: 11 Players: 16 Draft Picks: 9 Conditional Draft Picks: 4 Teams: 16 Calgary – 1 Prince Albert – 3 Seattle – 2 Tri-City – 1 Portland – 1 Kamloops […]
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Sorting through the Hitmen deadline deals
The Calgary Hitmen were one of the busier teams leading up to the 2018 Western Hockey League trade deadline. Jake Bean wasn’t the only member of the Calgary Hitmen to be traded. General Manager Jeff Chynoweth was quite busy in the days leading up to the eventful trade deadline Wednesday […]
Warriors add Clague and win seventh straight game
By Matthew Gourlie After 42 games the Moose Jaw Warriors have the best record in the Western Hockey League and are on pace for the best season in franchise history. They got significantly better at the WHL trade deadline. The Warriors acquired Kale Clague from the Brandon Wheat Kings in […]
Swift Current Broncos make blockbuster moves before Trade Deadline
It was an active day for the Swift Current Broncos as they made a massive trade with the Lethbridge Hurricanes and then a smaller trade with the Calgary Hitmen to add some grit to the offence. ACQUIRED Stuart Skinner Skinner was traded to the Swift Current Broncos from the Lethbridge […]
The WHL Trade Deadline: A Perspective
With only a couple of more days to go prior to the Western Hockey League trade deadline of January 10, here are some sober second thoughts. While the business of junior hockey makes for many “hot stove” type chat sessions among fans and pundits, the evolution of social media has […]
Hitmen receive a haul for the hometown kid
The Americans ended up with the gold medal from the World Junior Championship they deeply desired, expect it was the Canadian Jake Bean heading to Kennewick, Wash., instead of Team USA winning gold in Buffalo, N.Y. Slightly more than 24 hours removed from receiving his gold medal, local defenceman Bean […]
Americans pull off deal for Bean
The most anticipated trade of the season happened four days prior to the Jan. 10 deadline. The Calgary Hitmen have dealt 19-year-old defenceman Jake Bean to the Tri-City Americans for the 17-year-old forward Carson Focht, 18-year-old defenceman Dakota Krebs, a second-round pick in the 2018 WHL Bantam Draft, a first-round […]
Hitmen send Grishakov to the Royals
News broke earlier this afternoon that the Calgary Hitmen traded Andrei Grishakov to the third place Victoria Royals for a third-round pick in the 2019 Western Hockey League Bantam Draft. Grishakov was in his second season with Hitmen after the club selected him 106th overall in the second round of […]
