Game #1 of the 2014-15 WHL season for both the Winterhawks and the Thunderbirds. Portland will be raising their Western Conference banner tonight, their 4th in a row, while Seattle looks to play spoiler to the festivities. Here’s a look at some game day news and notes: (more…)
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. […]
With the news that Reid Gow is leaving the WHL instead of playing his overage season, I figured we could take a look at the overage situation around the US Division: (more…)
The WHL released the 2014-15 schedule today. We already knew what the first two Seattle games would be, based on the home opener schedule released last week. The TBirds will open the season in Portland on Sept 19 and will start their home schedule the next night vs the team they eliminated in the playoffs, […]
A quick look at how the players from last years roster became part of the team. Draft picks listed are for the Bantam Draft unless otherwise noted. It will be interesting to see if some of these ripples continue. With all the 19-year olds returning this upcoming season, those earlier trades may still continue to […]
With no games to watch from the Memorial Cup yesterday, my mind started to wander. It got me thinking that the TBirds have to make a couple of important decisions soon (assuming they haven’t already) regarding next year’s roster. As examined previously, there’s both overage and import problems to solve. I took a look at […]
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 […]
(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 […]
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 […]
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 […]