The Melfort Mustangs are this year's Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) champions.A hard-fought series with the Flin Flon Bombers ended on Tuesday night, as a 4-1 victory gave the Mustangs a 4-2 series win.Melfort captured the league title for the first time since 2016, doing so on home ice, as they were crowned ...

The La Ronge's Ice Wolves three-day spring camp in Aberdeen, near Saskatoon, is being called a success.That's according to head coach Kevin Kaminski, who explained the camp had 10 teams comprised of 180 players. The camp began on March 29 and ended March 31."It was an awesome weekend, a great performance by the pl...

With the regular season finished and without a spot in the playoffs, the Ice Wolves held its annual awards banquet Saturday at the Jonas Roberts Memorial Community Centre. "It went very good," Head Coach Kevin Kaminski said about the event, noting there were about 160 attendees. "It was a packed crowd an...

The top-seeded Concordia Stingers defeated the U of S Huskies 4-0 in the second quarter-final of the 2024 GFL USPORTS women's hockey championships, presented by Connect Energy, on Thursday night at Merlis Belsher Place. Concordia opened the scoring on an Emmy Fecteau shot that hit a stick and fluttered over goaltender ...

The SJHL/MJHL Showcase wrapped up Wednesday night in Winnipeg, with the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League winning two of the three games on the second day of action, following a three-game sweep to open the event, Tuesday.MJHL 20U Black tops SJHL 20U Gold Waywayseecappo Wolverines forward Sean Williams scored a pair of...

Ice Wolves defenceman Parker Layton, who is in his third season with the team, has been named captain."Parker has done a good job throughout the season, along with the other captains Jacob Cossette, Kyle Graham and Dylan Handel, but Parker has really stepped up his game and I think it's the first time in history t...

The Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) has said no teams are leaving its competition after teams from Alberta decided to jump ship to B.C.On Sunday, the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) issued a statement confirming five games from the weekend would be cancelled after learning five teams were defecting to the ...

The 2024 Viterra Scotties are now complete in Tisdale, as Saskatchewan has crowned a new provincial women's champion.Team Ackerman, out of the Nutana Curling Club in Saskatoon, booked a trip to their first Canadian Women's Championship, on Sunday evening, with a 10-9 win in extra ends over Team Martin."It's absolu...

Another trade has taken place in the SJHL and it involves the La Ronge Ice Wolves.On Monday night, the team announced it had sent Raine Hodge to Estevan Bruins in exchange for goalie Eric Kahl, defenceman Jesse Ivanovic and a player development fee (PDF).Kahl spent time this season with the WHL's Tri-City Americans and...

As his career as junior division powerlifter comes to a close, Air Ronge's Tim Zelensky has left a lasting legacy. At the Last Chance Powerlifting Competition in Moose Jaw this past weekend, Zelensky set the largest junior total in Saskatchewan history. He placed first after achieving a total of 730 kilograms, having s...

The Prince Albert Raiders spoiled the annual Teddy Bear Toss night in Calgary on Sunday as they knocked off the Hitmen 5-2.Teddy bears were tossed on to Saddledome ice after the Hitmen tied the game at 1-1 in the first period. Following a lengthy delay to clean up the stuffed animals, the Raiders re-took the lead at 2-...

The Prince Albert Raiders dropped the second game of the three-in-three road trip on Saturday night, falling the to the Medicine Hat Tigers 6-2 at Co-op Place. The loss comes a day after narrowly escaping Swift Current with a 4-3 shootout win over the Broncos. The night was a special game for the Tigers as the contest ...

The Western Hockey League (WHL) announced on Thursday the appointment of Dan Near as the league's next commissioner. The 43-year-old will be the ninth commissioner in league history and the successor to current commissioner Ron Robison, who's held the position since 2000. "It's a tremendous honour to have been sel...

La Ronge Ice Wolves head coach Kevin Kaminski is describing upcoming back-to-back-to-back games as the biggest weekend of the year for the team. The action starts Thursday at the Mel Hegland Uniplex, where the Ice Wolves will host the Humboldt Broncos. They will play the Broncos again at home on Friday, before hosting ...

Another week of Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League action has come and gone, which means another round of players of the week.During these past seven days in particular it was a pair of teammates from the Humboldt Broncos who cracked the list, as well as a member of the La Ronge Ice Wolves.For Humboldt in particular, tw...

The Brandon Wheat Kings prevailed at the Art Hauser Centre on Sunday night, downing the Prince Albert Raiders 3-1. The defeat is the second in as many days for the club as the Raiders were dealt a 6-3 loss at the hands of the Moose Jaw Warriors on Saturday. Carrot River's Jayden Wiens earned first star honours in the c...

AJ Ouellette is already feeling at home in Saskatchewan."(It's) just the greetings I have got from everyone in the organization and even fans. My flight from Toronto to here, I already had fans reaching out to me and talking to me and saying they were excited for me to get to the city," the 28-year-old runnin...

The Saskatchewan Roughriders announced the signing of a former NFLer on Friday.The CFL team said it had inked defensive back Nick Nelson to a contract.A 27-year-old product of Florence, S.C., Nelson was selected by the then-Oakland Raiders in the fourth round (110th overall) of the 2018 NFL draft out of the University ...

The Saskatchewan Roughriders announced Monday the signing of defensive back Nelson Lokombo to a one-year contract extension.The former University of Saskatchewan Huskies star could have become a CFL free agent on Feb. 13.Lokombo, 24, is the 11th Roughriders player whose signing has been announced by the team this off-s...

Corey Mace has assembled the rest of his 2024 Saskatchewan Roughriders coaching staff.The first-time head coach is surrounding himself with a few notable former CFL all-stars and teammates to round out the staff.The list includes the likes of former slotback Marquay McDaniel, linebacker J.C. Sherritt, offensive lineman...

The Saskatchewan Roughriders have released veteran linebacker/defensive back Derrick Moncrief.The CFL team announced the transaction Friday. Moncrief, 30, was eligible to become a free agent Feb. 13.When God says move, it's that time to do so! Thanking God for a great time in the @sskroughriders organization. I could w...

One of the CFL's top returners is returning to Saskatchewan.The Saskatchewan Roughriders announced Thursday they had signed returner Mario Alford to a one-year contract extension. The 32-year-old product of Greenville, Ga., could have become a CFL free agent on Feb. 13.The Roughriders acquired Alford from the Montreal ...

NEW YORK - Quinn Hughes of the Vancouver Canucks, Cale Makar of the Colorado Avalanche, and Roman Josi of the Nashville Predators are the three finalists for the Norris Trophy, awarded to the NHL's best defenceman, the league announced Wednesday. The trophy is voted on by members of the Professional Hockey Writers' Ass...

BOSTON - Joseph Woll knew he wasn't getting the nod for Game 1 of the playoffs. The Toronto Maple Leafs had clearly been trending towards Ilya Samsonov late in the regular season, including a week of rest for the goaltender ahead of the Stanley Cup chase. Woll didn't pout or show any disappointment at getting passed ov...

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have given an insight into their long-term ambitions for Welsh soccer team Wrexham, which they hope could eventually see the capacity of its Racecourse Ground stadium increase massively to 55,000. The Hollywood pair have already transformed the fortunes of the historic but down-on-its-l...

The Melfort Mustangs are this year's Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) champions.A hard-fought series with the Flin Flon Bombers ended on Tuesday night, as a 4-1 victory gave the Mustangs a 4-2 series win.Melfort captured the league title for the first time since 2016, doing so on home ice, as they were crowned ...

LONDON (AP) - German tennis legend Boris Becker was discharged from bankruptcy court in London after a judge found Wednesday he had done "all that he reasonably could do" to repay creditors tens of millions of pounds. Becker fell far short of repaying his creditors in full, but Chief Insolvency and Companies ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The Carolina Hurricanes are getting production throughout their lineup to start the NHL playoffs. They'll need it going forward if they're going to take down the Presidents' Trophy-winning New York Rangers. The Hurricanes closed out the New York Islanders in a first-round series on Tuesday night. T...