Western Hockey League

Its God Calling, He wants us to Win Tonight Mike Babcock although still in his twenty’s has had a hard time being able to stick to one team. He had been fired from many teams from all leagues, he was about to give up on hockey and already had a job lined up as an accountant in Strasbourg, Saskatchewan. Then he got a phone call that would change his life one more. The call was from Peter Anholt, coach of the Red Deer Rebels, he then began to tell him about the job opportunity for a new head coach…

For as long as any Canadian can remember when winter comes, bringing with it all the usual cold, snow, and ice, Canadians young and old are struck by the passion known as hockey. Whether on a backyard rink, playing minor league, rep or professional, the level hardly seems to matter as the players skate up and down the ice trying to shoot and score. Whether this is because it’s a nationally loved sport, developed in Canada or because it simply provides a way of embracing relief from winter, this…

high powered offensive prospects to their ranks. Oskar Lindblom The 6-foot-1, 198-pound left winger does have American Hockey League experience playing in eight games scoring seven points at just age 19, in 2015-16 following his Swedish hockey season with Brynäs IF. Oskar Lindblom returned to Sweden following his ATO. He would take the hockey world and the Swedish Hockey League by storm last season. The Philadelphia Flyers ‘’2014 5th round 138th’’, overall selection, falling to the fifth…

Ice hockey culture, which has changed throughout time in order to adjust to society, revolves around simplistic ideas rooted deep within the origins and the minuscule changes that are necessary to the game. Certain ideas remain prominent, where players of a team look for solitary expression, the footwear has added a metal blade in the transition from field hockey to ice hockey, and the puck has revolutionized the game with improvements in speed. Ice hockey provides all the aspects of a…

in a couple months. This is also a time that certain hockey fans – you know the breed – come out of the woodwork to laud these battered soldiers’ toughness and grit. They come equipped with memes comparing their hardy hockey heroes to those pansies on the soccer or basketball benches. Search the #PleaseLikeMySport hashtag on Twitter and you will find plenty of these fans, blissfully unaware that they are the butt of the joke. I get it, hockey players are tough. You cannot make it to the NHL…

understand the rules of hockey, and all they know is that it is played by Canadians. Most don’t understand the appeal of being in a freezing cold room, chasing a small rubber puck on blades as sharp as knives, trying to prevent five behemoths from destroying you. Most would choose to not play hockey, but I am not like most. The crashing of the boards. The sound of skates on ice. The ringing of posts. The sound of goal horns and high fives. This is what I live for. This is hockey. Hockey has…

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be an Olympic hockey player. Hockey is an event in the winter Olympics which is held in South Korea. Competition is one of the key things you need to know about hockey. The main goal of the event is to get the hockey puck in the goal. The dimensions of the hockey rink are 200 feet long and 100 feet wide that's 15 feet wider than an NHL hockey rink. Every goal in hockey is one point to the team that scored. A athlete gets ranked on how he or she…

Introduction For a variety of reasons, ice hockey has reached a point where its growth has stagnated in its most popular countries. In these countries, participation rates are in decline and the popularity of ice hockey compared to other sports is also in decline. Fortunately for the International Ice Hockey Federation, also known as the IIHF, the sport of ice hockey has many countries that are waiting to be tapped into. These countries currently have low interest in hockey but, at the same…

Imagine you are a professional hockey player in the National Hockey League, or NHL. You grew up around hockey and the sport became your lifestyle. You started playing it by the time you could walk and because you loved it, you stuck with it with one goal in mind: to be a player in the NHL. You weren’t the best athlete on the teams you played for, but you were still good enough to make them—and you were one tough player. Finally, you got the one thing you always wanted and an NHL team drafts you.…

winter after the start of the Second World War. ("Joseph-Armand Bombardier", The Canadian Encyclopedia) By 1947 the company produced the C18 which was a winter school bus that can hold up to 25 students. This later expanded to Ontario and later on to Western Canada. ("Joseph-Armand Bombardier", Historica Canada) Bombardier also developed an all terrain vehicle that could outstand almost any type of terrain including swamps, sand, or snow terrain. ("J-Armand Bombardier") These vehicle was…