The Manitoba Moose Hockey Club announced today the following five players have been assigned to Manitoba’s ECHL affiliate, the Jacksonville Icemen: F Cody Fowlie D Jack Glover F Matt Ustaski F Colton Veloso D Justin Woods The Moose also assigned forward Joey Ratelle to the ECHL’s Utah Grizzlies, while releasing goaltender Tanner Jaillet and forward…
Amanda Wong and Simon Berube are Boston Pizza Athletes of the Week
Thanks to strong performances over the weekend, two fourth-year student athletes — Amanda Wong from women’s soccer and Simon Berube from men’s cross country — have been named the Boston Pizza Bison Sports Athletes of the Week for the week ending September 24, 2018. It was a cold weekend on the pitch for Bison women’s…
Marcel Arruda-Welch named CW Special Teams Player of the Week
For the third straight week, a Bison football player has earned the honour of Canada West Special Teams Player of the Week. In fact, for the second time in three weeks, that player is return specialist and defensive back Marcel Arruda-Welch. The 6’0″ Arruda-Welch was crucial to a 37-27 win at Alberta in Week 4,…
Dinos Score Early Against Bison
An early goal by the Calgary Dinos would end up being the game-winner, as the Manitoba Bisons took their second loss of the year in a close 1-0 game on Sunday, September 23 at the West Turf Field (U of M campus). Bison goalkeeper Madison Wilford and Dinos goalkeeper Lauren Houghton traded crucial saves in…
Winnipeg Wins Game Loses Bighill, Demski & Harris
WINNIPEG – It wasn’t technically a must-win for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Friday night, but it was a must-win for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers Friday night. On a four-game losing streak, the Bombers were coming off a bye week and about to face the last-place Montreal Alouettes. A win, and they would…
Winnipeg Blue Bombers will Honour Melvin ‘Fritz’ Hanson
WINNIPEG – The 11th inductee to the Winnipeg Blue Bomber’s Ring of Honour at Investors Group Field will be the late Melvin ‘Fritz’ Hanson. The Bomber’s said the ceremony will take place at halftime during this Friday’s game against the Montreal Alouettes. Hanson was the first superstar in the history of the Winnipeg Football Club,…
Ottawa Trades Captain Erik Karlsson
OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators promised they were going into rebuild mode earlier this week. They weren’t kidding. Ending months of speculation and creating yet another juicy headline, the Senators traded their franchise player — captain Erik Karlsson —to the San Jose Sharks on Thursday. In the end, the defenceman and the Senators did not…
Hockey Night in Humboldt
HUMBOLDT, Sask. — The Humboldt Broncos lost, but the score didn’t matter. The Broncos fell 2−1 to the Nipawin Hawks on Wednesday — their first regular−season game since a team bus crash claimed 16 lives on April 6th — but the game prompted an outpouring of support from the hockey community as the team returned…
Escape Clause, Gourneau, Badrie, Whitehall Big Winners at the Downs
Let it be recorded that on Sunday afternoon, the final race of the 2018 live thoroughbred meet was won by Ebadan, a horse owned by the successful Assiniboia Racing Club (with 54 share-owning members). Let it also be remembered that the final stakes races of the meet were won by Escape Clause (the Manitoba Matron…
Eight Recruits for Manitoba Bison Women’s Volleyball
WINNIPEG — The Bison women’s volleyball team introduces eight new recruits for the 2019 – 2020 season, seven of them from Manitoba. The team will officially introduce the class, along with 2018-19 first-year Jordan Hamm, at a press conference this Thursday, September 13. “This class brings a combination of physicality, skill, athletic ability, unprecedented success,…