Team Canada will take part in their second exhibition game ahead of the 2023 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championships on Wednesday night against Slovakia. Tonight’s game will be the last one for Canada in Moncton, following tonight the team will head to Halifax for the remainder of the tournament. Canada got off to a […]
There are usually only two things on Canadian minds during the holiday season. Christmas and the IIHF U-20 World Junior Hockey Championships. After the COVID pandemic forced no spectators to attend the 2021 championships in Edmonton and then the tournament to be postponed to August in 2022, fans are looking forward to some normalcy […]
Team Canada kicked off their exhibition schedule with a 6-0 win over Switzerland. Regina Pats captain Connor Bedard collected three assists in the victory. Seattle Kraken’s Shane Wright led the scoring for Canada with a pair of goals and a assist. Also scoring for Canada was Joshua Roy, Nathan Gaucher, Olen Zellweger and Brennan […]
Canada defended its title with a 2-1 win over the United States in the women’s world hockey championship final Sunday. Brianne Jenner scored twice in the second period and goaltender Ann-Renée Desbiens made 20 saves in Canada’s net. Abby Roque scored for the Americans with Nicole Hensley stopping 17 shots in the loss. The Canadians won […]
It took until the late stages of Saturday’s gold-medal game, but Canada finally faced adversity at the World Junior Hockey Championship. After blowing a two-goal lead to the Finns, Kent Johnson came to the rescue. At 3:20 of overtime, Johnson tucked home the rebound from his own shot to give Canada a 3-2 win and […]
Canada’s Logan Stankoven is used to putting pucks in the back of the net, but scoring hasn’t come easily at the world junior hockey championship. He buried a pair of chances on Wednesday, though, helping Canada to a 6-3 quarterfinals win over Switzerland. “It’s harder than I thought, for sure,” said Stankoven, a Kamloops Blazers forward who […]
Logan Stankoven knows he and the rest of Team Canada are under the microscope as the world junior hockey championship begins. Not only will the squad be playing on home soil when they face Latvia in their first game of the tournament on Wednesday, they’ll be doing so during a period of intense scrutiny for Canadian hockey. […]
Former Supreme Court of Canada judge Thomas Cromwell will lead an independent review of Hockey Canada’s governance amid calls for a change of leadership of the governing body for its handling of recent allegations of sexual assault against players. Hockey Canada said in a statement that the review will begin immediately and is expected to […]
The 2023 World Junior Hockey Championships are heading to the Maritimes. Hockey Canada announced on Thursday, Halifax and Moncton have been chosen as the hosts of the 2023 World Juniors. A joint bid from Regina and Saskatoon were among the groups that were competing against the Maritime group. The last time the World Juniors were […]
Hockey Canada has invited 45 players to its under-18 development camp this summer and one of the 45 is no stranger to Regina hockey fans. Connor Bedard, who won gold at the event this year and was one of the tournament’s top players, has received an invite as has goaltender Matthew Kieper and defenceman Layton […]
