Earlier today, the 2018-19 WHL schedule was released. For the first time in 45 years, the league will play a 68-game regular season schedule. This change brings the WHL in line with the Ontario Hockey League and Quebec Major Junior Hockey League who already play such a schedule. But while that’s the big change league-wide, […]
There’s been a lot of discussion, this year and in years past, about how the WHL seeds its teams for the playoffs. This year the debate was especially vigorous as the 6 East Division teams all had higher point totals than the #2 team in the Central Division. But because of the format, Saskatoon didn’t […]
For the 4th time in the last 5 years, Everett and Seattle will be meeting in the playoffs. It’s starting to feel like a playoff tradition that these 2 franchises face off. The Silvertips have a loud and proud fanbase that are known as the #SeaOfGreen. But as demonstrated constantly, especially in the 2016 and […]
Tonight will be the 15th Teddy Bear Toss game that the Seattle Thunderbirds have held. Before tonight’s game gets under way and the fur starts to fly, a quick look back at all the teddy bear goal scorers and some interesting tidbits about those goals. (more…)
A quick look at how the current Seattle Thunderbirds roster was acquired. A great deal of thanks to Tyler Hunnex and Alan Caldwell whose blogs provided great reference and confirmation of the information below. (more…)
Just over a month after the Thunderbirds appearance at the MasterCard Memorial Cup, we are looking forward to the 2017-18 season as the schedule was released earlier today. Seattle will begin their defense of the WHL Championship at home on September 23rd vs Tri-City. Before we get to the full schedule, though, let’s take a […]
With the loss to Windsor today, the Seattle Thunderbirds at 0-2 are down but not out. Here are the possibilities moving forward: Erie defeats Saint John on Monday. Seattle defeats Saint John on Tuesday. Saint John out, Seattle to semi-final. Erie defeats Saint John on Monday. Saint John defeats Seattle on Tuesday. Seattle out, Saint […]
The TBirds have done it again! They defeated the Kelowna Rockets in 6 games and are headed to the WHL Final in back-to-back seasons for the first time in team history. With this unprecedented playoff success the last 2 seasons, it’s now more important than ever to show your support while they try to push […]
With a dramatic 5OT win on Sunday vs Victoria, the Everett Silvertips earned a second round matchup with the defending Western Conference Champion Seattle Thunderbirds. The Silvertips have a loud and proud fanbase that are known as the #SeaOfGreen. But as demonstrated constantly, especially in the 2016 WHL final, the Thunderbirds fan support can always […]
With just about a month left in the WHL regular season, the #1 seed in the Western Conference has gone from all but certain for Prince George to a 4-team race. As you can see in the above graphic, Everett currently leads with 82 points in 58 games. Next are the Seattle Thunderbirds with […]