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May 5, 2018 The Wenatchee Wild used a combination of a punishing physical presence along with a relentless assault to post a convincing 7-2 victory over the AJHL champion Spruce Grove Saints to claim the Doyle Cup and earn a berth in the Royal Bank Cup Tournament to compete for the National Championship. Wenatchee won Read More »
May 5, 2018 It’s become an annual ritual now – to see how the WHL Bantam Draft breaks down according to month of birth and size (weight), round by round. Clearly at the bantam age there is a wide range of size with boys. Many 15 year boys have shot up, hit puberty, Read More »
May 5, 2018 It was another record breaking year for the Canadian Sport School Hockey League at the WHL Bantam Draft as 81 student athletes, including 15 in the first round, were selected. This breaks the previous record of 66 students selected, and 13 in the first round, set at the 2017 Read More »
May 5, 2018 Here’s how this year’s WHL Bantam draft unfolded, May 3, 2018 in Red Deer, in order of selection. Alberta lead the way with 69 picks, including 11 (half) first round picks, 10 second round picks and 9 third round picks. BC were second with 49 picks, including 5 first rounders, Read More »
May 3, 2018 Here’s how this year’s WHL Bantam draft unfolded, for BC-based players. British Columbia As has been the case for the last few years, Canadian Sports School Hockey League teams dominated the BC player draft. Of the 49 BC picks, all but seven were from the CSSHL, including all 16 of Read More »
May 3, 2018 Red Deer, AB After retaining the first-overall pick from the 2018 WHL Bantam Draft Lottery, the Edmonton Oil Kings used the pick to select forward Dylan Guenther (Edmonton, Alta./Northern Alberta Xtreme Bantam Prep). In total, 223 players were selected in the 2018 WHL Bantam Draft, with 124 forwards, 76 defencemen and Read More »
April 12, 2018 CBC News, with files from Canadian Press From celebrities to premiers to hockey moms in B.C., Canadians wore hockey jerseys on Thursday in a show of solidarity with the victims and survivors of a Saskatchewan bus crash that killed 16 people. Jersey Day, as it has been dubbed, was organized by Read More »
Crash reminiscent of tragedy over twenty years prior – same intersection White crosses mark the spot where six people were killed in a crash in 1997. That crash killed Rod Fiddler, 33; his wife, Terri Lynne Fiddler, 30; and their children Jocelyn, 4; Jasmine, 3; and Kassandre, one month. The girls’ aunt, 26-year-old Wendy Lou Fiddler, also Read More »
April 12, 2018 by Darren Zary, Saskatoon StarPhoenix A decision has been made to play on. The Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League voted Wednesday to continue with playoffs and play out the remainder of the season. That decision came five days after a bus crash involving the SJHL’s Humboldt Broncos has left 16 people dead, and Read More »
(Click image above to make a donation). April 12, 2018 (3:57 PM) By Rebecca Joseph, Global News Since the tragic bus crash that killed 16 people and left another 11 injured, the town of Humboldt has received an abundance of well wishes, support and – in the form of a GoFundMe page – money. Read More »
April 12, 2018 The Canadian Press Don Cherry paid further tribute to the Humboldt Broncos on Coach’s Corner on Wednesday night. Cherry spoke during the first intermission of Game 1 of the Winnipeg Jets and Minnesota Wild’s first-round Stanley Cup playoff series, adding further detail to his thoughts on the Humboldt Broncos’ bus crash Read More »
CBC News · Posted: Apr 11, 2018 3:20 PM CT A broken Slap Shot DVD left at the scene of the Humboldt Broncos crash site. (Olivia Stefanovich/CBC) The site of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash that killed 16 and left 14 others injured remained littered with reminders of what happened, even well after the victims Read More »
April 11, 2018 By Andrew Russell, Global News A Nova Scotia cartoonist’s illustration capturing the country’s pain in the wake of the tragic bus crash involving the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team is being described online as powerful, poignant and heart-wrenching. The cartoon by Bruce MacKinnon, an award-winning cartoonist with the Halifax Chronicle Herald, shows a Read More »
April 12, 2018 From Globe & Mail The basics Sixteen people are dead after a collision on Friday between a Saskatchewan junior hockey team’s bus and a tractor-trailer in rural Saskatchewan. The death toll increased on Wednesday after Dayna Brons, the athletic therapost for the Humboldt Broncos, died. Her family said she was previously in a Read More »
April 12, 2018 SASKATOON — The athletic therapist for the Humboldt Broncos became the 16th person to die following a horrific bus crash in Saskatchewan last week. Relatives of Dayna Brons of the 25-year-old say they will remember her for “joyful smile.” They say Brons died Wednesday afternoon in a Saskatoon hospital from injuries Read More »
The wreckage of a fatal crash outside of Tisdale, Sask., is seen Saturday, April, 7. A bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team en route to Nipawin for a game Friday night collided with a semi-trailer, killing 16 and injuring 13 others. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press) April 11, 2018 by Jason Warick, CBC News Read More »
March 31, 2018 by Arch Ecker The Wenatchee Wild and Trail Smoke Eaters traded chances, and traded goals for the first two and a half periods of Game Two on Saturday night before the Wild cemented a 4-2 victory to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven BCHL Interior Conference Final Series. Read More »
April 2, 2018 Ben Berard scored his third overtime game-winning goals of the playoffs, lifting the Powell River Kings to an extremely important 3-2 home win over the Prince George Spruce Kings. Prince George now leads the best-of-seven series 2-1. The home side got off to the start they wanted, getting goals 14 Read More »
April 2, 2018 Langley, BC – The Victoria Royals’ Noah Gregor recorded the game-winning goal in a 4-3 overtime victory over the Vancouver Giants to force Game 7 that goes Tuesday at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre. Game Summary Gamesheet – https://bit.ly/2uFWWSm Scoring: Royals – Matthew Phillips 2g-2a, Noah Gregor 1g-2a (Game Winner), Dante Hannoun Read More »
April 1, 2018 The Fraser Valley Thunderbirds have capped off an incredible season, winning the BC Hockey Major Midget Championship with two straight road wins over the defending league champion Cariboo Cougars. In game one Friday, the Thunderbirds jumped out to an early 2-0 first period lead and did not look back, adding Read More »
April 3, 2018 Seafair Bantam A1 posted a perfect 5-0-0 record to claim the Tier 1 Bantam Provincial title in Nanaimo a week ago, downing Prince George 3-0 in the final, March 22. On Sunday, the Islanders completed their dream season, with 2-1 double OT win in Kamloops over Alberta’s Airdrie Xtreme, to Read More »
March 24, 2018 by Kevin Bains The Kelowna Rockets fell 9-7 to Tri-City in game two of round one of the 2018 WHL Playoffs at Prospera Place Saturday. Nolan Yaremko slashed Dillon Dube off the opening draw to give the Rockets an early power play, and after being shutout in game one, the Rockets Read More »
March 26, 2018 The semi-final matchups of the BCHL Championship playoffs are now set. The Trail Smoke Eaters downed the #1 seed Penticton Vees 4-2 Monday in Penticton to take the series in seven games. Trail will now face the Wenatchee Wild in the Interior series playoff. Wenatchee downed Vernon in six to advance, Read More »
March 26, 2018 Semi-Finals – Cariboo and Fraser Valley advance The Cariboo Cougars and Fraser Valley Thunderbirds will meet in the BCMML Championship series this coming weekend in Prince George. The #2 seeded Cougars advanced with two straight wins over the visiting North East Chiefs, who came in as the #8 seed Read More »
March 24, 2018 Greater Vernon are this year’s Peewee T2 Provincial Champions, after posting a near perfect 5-0-1 record, and downing Greater Trail 10-2 in the final, hosted at North Shore Winter Club. The big Vernon squad dominated the scoreboard in all but their opener, a 3-3 tie against host, and eventual fourth place, Read More »
March 24, 2018 Seafair Bantam A1 posted a perfect 5-0-0 record to claim the Tier 1 Bantam Provincial title in Nanaimo this week, downing Prince George 3-0 in the final. Seafair entered the Provincials as the top ranked PCAHA team, after winning the Lower Mainland title with a dominating 19-1-0, 130GF-25GA regular season record, Read More »
March 24, 2018 The Burnaby Winter Club Peewees carried through with their winning ways at the Provincial Playoffs in Prince George this week, posting a 5-0-1 record, to capture another BC Provincial Championship title. BWC came into the Provincials carrying a 6-0-0 record out of the PCAHA playoffs, and were accompanied by the #2 Read More »
March 18, 2018 by CSSHL Riley Fiddler-Schultz (Edmonton, AB) scored twice, including the eventual winner, as the Northern Alberta Xtreme were 4-2 winners over the Rink Hockey Academy in the 2018 Canadian Sport School Hockey League Elite 15 Division Championship. Ethan Leyer (St. Albert, AB) had the other two goals and also up one Read More »
March 18, 2018 The Kelowna Rockets closed out the 2017-2018 regular season with an 8-1 win over the Vancouver Giants on Saturday night at Prospera Place. With just over five minutes to play in the first frame Libor Zabransky(2) opened the scoring with a nice snap shot that beat Giants goaltender Trent Miner low on Read More »
by WHL March 18, 2017 Fredericton, N.B. – The University of Alberta Golden Bears erased another two goal deficit, defeating the St. FX X-Men 4-2 in the 2018 University Cup Final, to win their 16th National Championship in program history. This is the third University Cup title for Alberta in five years, after winning back-to-back Read More »
