Hockey

The Brandon Wheat Kings have announced that they will not be extending the contract of General Manager Grant Armstrong.Kelly McCrimmon, the Western Hockey League club’s Owner / Governor, made the announcement Tuesday morning.“I’d like to thank Grant for his contribution to our organization,” says...

The field is now set for the National Junior A Championship in Brooks Alta. The week-long tournament featuring the CJHL’s top teams gets going Saturday, May 11th.After eight months of regular-season and playoff hockey across the CJHL, the field of five teams is finally...

The Penticton Vees announce 2001-born defenceman Cade Webber has committed to the team for the 2019-20 season.Webber, from Meadville, Pennsylvania, comes to Penticton with imposing size, listed at 6’6’’ and 194 pounds. Webber spent the majority of the 2018-19 season playing for The Rivers School...

OSTRAVA, Czech Republic – Canada’s National Para Hockey Team has advanced to the gold medal game at the 2019 IPC World Para Hockey Championship. Liam Hickey (St. John’s, N.L.) steered the defending champions to the final with four goals and one assist in a...

The 2019 Rogers WHL Championship Series begins Friday, May 3 in Prince Albert, featuring the WHL Eastern Conference Champion Prince Albert Raiders and WHL Western Conference Champion Vancouver Giants.As part of the lead up to the 2019 Rogers WHL Championship Series, the 2019 WHL Awards were...

The Kamloops Blazers selected nine players in the 2019 WHL Bantam Draft held in Red Deer, AB on May 2, 2019. For the first time in franchise history, the Blazers selected two players in the first round of the WHL Bantam Draft. The Blazers chose...

Vancouver, B.C. – In the second round of the 2019 Western Hockey League WHL Bantam Draft, the Vancouver Giants made two selections. With the 30th overall selection the Giants selected defenceman Joshua Niedermayer (Penticton, B.C.) from the Okanagan Hockey Academy’s Bantam Prep program. In 27 games...

The Western Hockey League completed the first round of the 2019 WHL Bantam Draft this morning at the Cambridge Hotel & Conference Centre in Red Deer, Alta.After retaining the first-overall pick from the 2019 WHL Bantam Draft Lottery, the Winnipeg ICE used the pick...

WHL Player of the Year – Four Broncos Memorial Trophy WINNER: Joachim Blichfeld – Portland Winterhawks The import forward from Frederikshavn, Denmark, returned to the WHL for his overage season in 2018-19 and had a season to remember. A prospect of the San Jose Sharks, Blichfeld registered...

Eighteen athletes have been named to Canada’s National Para Hockey Development Team, and will face the United States this weekend as part of the 2019 Défi sportif AlterGo. Twenty-two players were evaluated through a series of practices, off-ice workouts and training sessions, as well as...

Hockey Canada has announced the addition of centre Jared McCann (London, Ont./Pittsburgh, NHL) to its roster for the 2019 IIHF World Championship, May 10-26 in Košice and Bratislava, Slovakia. McCann will play in his first IIHF World Championship following his fourth National Hockey League season....