WINNIPEG, MB – Kevin Klein, Publisher and CEO, is pleased to announce that veteran reporter/columnist/commentator Scott Taylor has joined the Manitoba Post team as director of sports content. Taylor is the president of Game On Manitoba Inc. and has been the editor and co-publisher of Game On, Manitoba’s Hockey Magazine since it was founded by…
Coach and Rookie of the Year for Bisons Women’s Hockey
WINNIPEG, MB – A big honour today for two individuals from the Manitoba Bisons Women’s Hockey team as they received Canada West recognition for their efforts in the 2017 – 18 season. Bison goalie Lauren Taraschuk was selected as Canada West Women’s Hockey Rookie of the Year and head coach Jon Rempel was named the…
Canada’s National Game
WINNIPEG, MB – For Richard DeLaRonde, the assistant coach of Manitoba’s National B-Side Champion Pee Wee lacrosse team, Canada’s game is in his blood. Not only did he play lacrosse while growing up in Thompson, but he now has five kids who either played the game or still play – 18-year-old daughter Kyra played until…
Manitoba Bisons Win In Fourth OT to Advance
WINNIPEG, MB – The No. 1 University of Manitoba Bisons are going to the Canada West women’s hockey conference finals after Jordyn Zacharias scored in quadruple overtime, ending the semi-final series against the No. 2 University of Alberta Pandas 1-0 on Sunday night (Feb. 25) at Wayne Fleming Arena. This was the second longest game…
Manitoba Bisons Extend Series With OT Win
WINNIPEG, MB – The No. 1 University of Manitoba Bisons topped the No. 2 University of Alberta Pandas 2-1 after Alexandra Anderson fired a long dead-ringer off the draw in overtime on Saturday, Feb. 24 at Wayne Fleming Arena to push the Canada West women’s hockey best-of-three semifinal to a deciding game. Anderson’s goal came…
Five Manitoba Bisons Recognized by Canada West
WINNIPEG, MB – The Manitoba Bisons women’s hockey team is well represented this year with five players named to the all-star and all-rookies teams for Canada West. Bisons Erica Rieder and Jordyn Zacharias named as 2017-18 Canada West Women’s Hockey First Team All-Star while Alanna Sharman selected as Second Team All-Star and Lauren Taraschuk and…
Scott Taylor Hockey Talk – Making it Fun Again
STEINBACH, MB – Braden Purtill is having a blast. He’s the captain of a first place team, he’s been Manitoba Junior Hockey League player of the week twice this season, he’s second in the league in scoring and he’s playing on a first-place team that came out of the Christmas break with a sparkling record…
Manitoba Bison Wins Medal at Olympics
WINNIPEG, MB – Manitoba Bison women’s hockey player Venla Hovi will return home to Winnipeg with her second Winter Olympic medal. This is Venla Hovi’s third time playing with Team Finland at an Olympics. She was with the team previously at the 2010 Olympics (bronze medal) in Vancouver and 2014 Olympics (5th place) in Sochi,…
The Hockey Barn Teaching Athletes More Than Just Hockey
WINNIPEG, MB – According to the dictionary, a Barn is “a large farm building used for storing grain, hay, or straw or for housing livestock.” That may be true, but when being described in terms of hockey, it has a completely different meaning. A barn in hockey terms is the word used to describe the…
Manitoba Loses Game One
WINNIPEG, MB – The University of Manitoba Bisons and Mount Royal University Cougars kicked off the 2018 Canada West men’s hockey playoff schedule with the Cougars coming out victorious and taking a 1-0 series lead at Wayne Fleming Arena on Friday, Feb. 16 night in game one of the conference quarter-final best-of-three series. This is…