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2023 QMJHL Playoff Preview: Eastern Conference

Mar 31, 2023 Sean Crocker

Photo Credit: Mathieu Belanger/Getty Images For the first time since 2019, we get to say we are going to get a full QMJHL playoffs in its original format. No more best-three-of-five series' and a start…

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Vancouver Giants Set For Tough Test Against Blazers

Mar 30, 2023 Adam Kierszenblat

For the second straight season, the Vancouver Giants and Kamloops Blazers will do battle in the WHL playoffs. While last year's series took place in the second round, with Kamloops winning in Game Six, this…

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Five Winnipeg ICE Players Get Season All-Star Honours

Mar 30, 2023 James Tomlin

Five Winnipeg ICE players were given season all-star honours. With four being first-team all-stars and one on the second team. The players with first-team honours were goaltender Daniel Hauser, forward Zach Benson, forward Connor McClennon,…

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Quinn Hughes deserves more respect around the NHL

Mar 29, 2023 Joshua Rey

The Vancouver Canucks struck gold on day one of the 2018 NHL Entry Draft. They selected Quinn Hughes with the seventh overall pick that day and Canucks fans couldn't be happier. The smooth-skating defenceman from…

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Rockets To Face Thunderbirds in Round One

Mar 28, 2023 Matt McRae

It's the best time of the year in the WHL, It's playoff time. For the Kelowna Rockets, their playoff dreams will open up on March 31st in Kent, Washington, where they will face the top…

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The Whitecaps need to give Simon Becher more minutes

Mar 27, 2023 Joshua Rey

The Vancouver Whitecaps benefited (and still do) from having their reserve team close to home. Whitecaps FC 2 of MLS Next Pro play at Burnaby's Swangard Stadium. That is where the Vancouver Whitecaps of the…

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What Should The ICE Expect From The Medicine Hat Tigers

Mar 27, 2023 James Tomlin

So it begins, the Winnipeg ICE will face off against the Medicine Hat Tigers in the first round of the WHL playoffs. The series will start on March 31st with game one at Wayne Flemmings…

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Last-ditch effort nabs Whitecaps a point in Minnesota

Mar 25, 2023 Nathan Durec

The Vancouver Whitecaps grabbed a deserved point on the road in Minnesota, thanks to a whistle-beating goal from Simon Becher. In a match where the away side dominated in shots, possession, xG, passing and passing…

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Cooper Michaluk: “…it’s how I bounce back”

Mar 24, 2023 Lizz Child

(Photo: Larry Brunt/Spokane Chiefs) Entering the 2022-23 season, Spokane Chiefs goaltender Cooper Michaluk had appeared in just five regular-season and four playoff games in the Western Hockey League after signing his WHL Standard Player Agreement…

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Countdown to UFC San Antonio

Mar 23, 2023 BLUBEARD

UFC San Antonio will feature a whole slew of great matchups in the lighter divisions, closing with top male bantamweights Marlon 'Chito' Vera and Cory Sandhagen in the main event and top female bantamweights Holly…

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