A history of firsts
Here’s a look at how the Seattle Thunderbirds 1st round Bantam picks over the past 15 years have performed for both Seattle and beyond: (Number of pick shown to left of player) (more…)
Leagues of Extraordinary Gentlemen (and Portland)
Well, it’s down to the final 6. Each of the CHL leagues has their finalists and they will be battling it out for both league supremacy and a chance to raise the Mastercard Memorial Cup trophy. Let’s take a look at each of the 6 teams and our predictions for who is going to come […]
Overager overage
Everyone with a Thunderbirds blog is going to be writing a post about the Seattle 20-year old situation for next season. So this one will be no exception. What will be the difference? While those 3-4 other blogs have facts, inside information and logical thought, I just have my own opinion. If I end up […]
What an (April) Fool Believes: Round 2 West predictions
(If you didn’t get a chance to see the round 1 roundup and round 2 predictions for the East, you can read those here.) Let’s take a look at how I did with round 1 in the West: (1) Kelowna 118pts v (8) Tri-City 68pts Prediction: Kelowna in 4 Actual: Kelowna in 5 As I […]
Looking back to go forward: Round 2 East predictions
With the Medicine Hat Tigers 2-1 win over Swift Current in game 6 Sunday night, the Broncos were eliminated and all the second round matchups were set. Before we get to who I pick to move on to the Eastern conference finals, let’s look back and see how close I was on predicting round 1. […]
Throwback Thursday: Rivalries in playoffs
While in the midst of this first-ever playoff meeting between the Silvertips and Thunderbirds, it reminded me of the last time Seattle played their other rival in the playoffs, the Portland Winterhawks. It was way back in 2006 and Seattle had home ice. Back then, the WHL had a divisional playoff schedule so even though […]
Playoff predictions
Time to take a look at who I think will move on in the WHL playoffs. This is all going to be gut feeling and a small amount of thought. I’ll do just the first round for now. Eastern Conference: (1) Edmonton 103pts v (9) Prince Albert 75pts Prince Albert showed some determination in getting […]
Home ice?
So, if Twitter replies are any indication, people have very strong opinions about the playoff schedule that the Thunderbirds and Silvertips have for their first round series. If you don’t know what we are talking about, here is the schedule: Seattle #4 vs Everett #5 Saturday March 22 @ ShoWare Center Sunday March 23 @ Comcast […]
Saturday night possibilities
As seen earlier, here are the updated standings after Friday night: Seattle Thunderbirds 40-24-2-4 86 Spokane Chiefs 40-25-3-3 86 Everett Silvertips 38-23-7-2 85 Seattle and Everett both have 2 games remaining, Spokane has 1: Seattle: @POR, @TC Spokane: @TC Everett: VIC, @POR […]
Scheduling the unknown
While we still don’t know what positions they will end up in, we do know that 2 of these 3 teams (Seattle, Spokane, Everett) will end up in a 4 vs 5 series against each other. Based on arena availability and historical scheduling, here’s my best guess as to what those series may look like: […]