Just about a week ago, the Seattle Thunderbirds released their full 2022-23 schedule. This year brings a return to the full schedule with Central teams coming to Kent and an trip for Seattle through the East Division. However, it also comes with a caveat: dates, opponents, and times subject to change. We’ll take our (almost) […]
2020. There’s not much to be said about last year because we all lived through it. And we remember those that didn’t. The Seattle TBirds 2019-20 season ended abruptly and without a postseason. We may have had a faint idea that a break in the season was coming but even the most pessimistic vision wouldn’t […]
376 days. When the TBirds and Silvertips skated off the ShoWare Center ice on March 8th, 2020, the world had already started changing. And while we all had our thoughts and suspicions, I don’t think anyone knew for sure that it would signify the end of WHL hockey in Kent for more than a year. […]
As we mentioned on Twitter earlier this week, we believe we have finally indexed the final score of all 2507 Thunderbirds regular-season games that have happened so far. So we thought it would be fun to take a look at some of the milestone games and goals that have happened over the years: Game #1: […]
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 and spreadsheets provided great reference and confirmation of the information below. (more…)
Earlier this week, the Western Hockey League released the entire 2019-20 schedule. This will be the second season of the 68-game schedule that brought the WHL in line with their Canadian Hockey League counterparts: the Ontario Hockey League and the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. As we do every season, let’s take a closer look […]
Vancouver vs Seattle. It’s a playoff matchup that has only happened once before in the WHL. But while these teams don’t have much of a history, the cities definitely do. And with the coming addition of a Seattle NHL team, it is sure to keep growing. There’s been a lot of focus on the Cascadia […]
Tonight will be the 16th 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…)
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 […]