Tag Archives: Kootenay

Understanding the new WHL playoff format

If you listened to this year’s first edition of the US Division podcast with Scott Sepich, you heard a discussion about the new WHL playoff format. He and Larry Fisher of the Kelowna Daily Courier covered it fairly well.  We’ll take a little bit of a deeper dive and see how it would affect matchups. […]

This is 40: Imports

With Tim Pigulski talking about the upcoming CHL Import Draft today, we decided to take a look at import picks that the Seattle Thunderbirds have had at pick #40 or higher. This should be in the area of the TBirds first round pick this year. We won’t go beyond their WHL stats in this analysis. […]

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. […]

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 Advantage?

The Thunderbirds playoff experiences have been sparse the last half-decade or so but, in the big picture, they have a long history of making it into the second season. With Seattle battling Spokane and Everett for 4th place in the conference and home ice advantage in the first round, we’re going to take a look […]

Cougars stay, Ice go?

Big news out of Prince George this morning as the PG Citizen is reporting that the Cougars have been sold. As some of you know, PG has the worst attendance in the league and a lot of this is attributed to the fans lack of support of the ownership. Maybe a change at the top […]