Western Elite Hockey Prospects

Thursday, Feb 16

2012-02-16T07:26:00.000-08:00

AMBHL Playoffs Sherwood Park Flyers 6 - Edmonton CAC 2 The Flyers would build up period leads of 2-0 and 4-0 and eventually cruise to the easy 6-2 win over Edmonton CAC in a battle of offence vs. defence on Wednesday night. Leading the way for Sherwood Park was team scoring leader in 98 born Sam Steel who had 2-2-4. Grayson Pawlenchuk had 1-2-3 and we except Grayson to be drafted in the top

AMBHL Playoffs - Round 1

2012-02-14T21:56:00.000-08:00

Leduc 5 - Camrose Vikings 4 2OT Leduc draw first blood in what should be a great series between a pair of teams where there was just 2 points separating them in the regular season. The game would see a combined 92 shots and Leduc fired 35 at Camrose goalie Travis Child through two periods of play. For Leduc, Tristan Starzynski was the 2OT hero scoring his 2nd of the game and also added 1

Alberta Cup Schedule Announced

2012-02-14T11:07:00.000-08:00

DATES AND LOCATIONSThe 2012 Alberta Cup is an open tryout for all male 1997 born athletes. Zone Selection Camps will take place March 30 - April 1, 2012. Locations and arenas are listed below. Please ensure you review the Zone Boundaries before registering. Once registered you will receive a confirmation email and roughly one week prior to the zone camp you will receive an email from your

February 12, 2012 newsletter is ready

2012-02-13T09:36:00.000-08:00

*Stats have been updated for all Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba players up to February 9, 2012. The Stats now included all GSHL player stats which are available for individual players upon request. THE PCACA doesn't produce specific stats, so if any of you have these or would like them included, please forward. From B.C., we have updated POE, OHA, Kamloops and Seafair individual player

AMBHL Playoff Matchups Set

2012-02-13T08:46:00.000-08:00

The division best of 3 semi finals will begin this Tuesday and wrap up by Sunday. Here below is a small preview of each of the series. SSAC Southgate Lions - St. Albert Sabres SSAC 26-4-3 199GF 98GA St. Albert 18-8-7 120GF 99GA - Entering the series, St. Albert are struggling down the stretch with a record of 1-4-1 in their past six games. SSAC on the other hand is 6-0-0 and have

Hockey Manitoba Bantam Showcase - Final Day

2012-02-12T15:30:00.000-08:00

Winnipeg Hawks (B2) 5 - Norman Wolves 1 The Hawks got 1-1-2 from both Vince Loschaivo and Connor Barley today and single goals from Morrow and Bazecki. Both Loschaivo and Barley are in our preliminary bantam draft rankings for 2013 as top 98 born prospects we've noticed this year. Jack Clinton got the lone goal for Norman. Winnipeg Warriors (B2) 6 - Central Plains Capitals 2 Again the strength

New York Times coming to western Canada

2012-02-12T14:40:00.000-08:00

A couple weeks ago, WEHP was approached by a sports writer of the New York Times for a story they are doing pertaining to bantam hockey in western Canada. They will be making a stop in Melfort this Thursday to take in the North East Wolfpack practice and then will attend the North East Wolfpack/Sask Valley game on Friday night in Warman. It just so happens that the game on Friday night is for

Sunday, February 12, 2012 Weekend Update

2012-02-12T09:55:00.000-08:00

British Columbia PCAHA Round 1 - Flight 1 NSWC 8 - South Delta 0 Semiahmoo 13 - Port Coquitlam 0 Seafair 5 - North Vancouver 2 Abbotsford 5 - Richmond 0 BWC defeats Ridge Meadows OMAHA Vernon 4 - Kamloops 2 POE 5 - Prince George 2 -Liam Finlay with 1-4-5, Wellsby scored twice as did 98 F- Jost. POE 7 - Prince George 0 D- Chaz Reddekopp with 3 goals. VIAHA The Vancouver Island regular season

Hockey Manitoba Bantam Showcase

2012-02-11T13:06:00.000-08:00

The 3rd and final Hockey Manitoba Bantam Showcase began yesterday in Winnipeg. This showcase faces teams from rural Manitoba as well as the Winnipeg 98 born hockey teams. Friday Action Winnipeg Monarchs B2 9 - Central Plains Capitals 2 The Monarchs were led by Josh Curtis who scored 3 goals and Zach Bailey along with Kevin Jakisch each had 1-2-3. Josh Curtis is 3rd in Winnipeg B2 scoring this

February 12, 2012 newsletter is ready

2012-02-10T07:25:00.001-08:00

Road to the Westerns - February 9th

2012-02-09T07:57:00.001-08:00

AMBHL Action Calgary Northstar Sabres 2 - Calgary Royals 1 The Calgary Royals have their 13 game AMBHL winning streak ended at the hands of their likely first round match-up in the Northstar Sabres. The Sabres will finish 4th and now have a record of 10-17-4 while the Royals drop to 25-3-3. The Royals are also just 2 points up on SSAC for the overall league lead. Both teams have 2 games

Road to the Westerns - February 9th

2012-02-09T07:48:00.000-08:00

PCAHA Flight 1 Playoff Match-Ups

2012-02-08T08:41:00.000-08:00

PCAHA Flight 1 Playoffs (Single game elimination)BWC - Vancover or Hollyburn - Feb 11-BWC Overall Record - 44-5-5-Hollyburn Overall Record - 23-12-2 (Flight 1 placement and Flight 2 season/tournament)-Vancouver Overall Record - 30-19-3 (Flight 2 placement/season/tournament)- BWC defeated Hollyburn 6-1 in pre-season. Haven't played Vancouver this season. Cloverdale - Ridge Meadows - Feb 15-

Robby Jackson - Top Rated Western U.S.A Prospect

2012-02-07T07:46:00.000-08:00

There have been an increasing number of talented Californians making waves north of the border in the WHL in recent years. From the likes of Ryan Hollweg with the Medicine Hat Tigers, Mitch Wahl with the Spokane Chiefs, Drayson Bowman from Spokane and most recently the WHL goal scoring leader

Road to the Westerns

2012-02-06T08:39:00.000-08:00

AMBHL Playoff Picture The playoff picture is becoming a bit clearer with just 1 week remaining in the AMBHL regular season. The south match-ups are set while the North still has a lot up in the air in regards to standing. Challenger South Calgary Northstar Sabres vs. Calgary Royals -Royals hold season series lead at 2-0-1 with 16 GF and 9GA. Calgary Bronks vs. Calgary Bisons -Home ice

Top 10 Team Rankings

2012-02-06T08:12:00.000-08:00

WEHP is proud to announce this morning the Western Canada Top 10 Team Rankings. Top 10 Western Canada 1. Cloverdale Colts - PCAHA 2. BWC Bruins - PCAHA 3. NSWC Winterhawks - PCAHA 4. Semiahmoo Ravens - PCAHA 5. Calgary Royals - AMBHL 6. SSAC Southgate Lions - AMBHL 7. POE 8. Sherwood Park Flyers - AMBHL 9. Lloydminster Heat - AMBHL 10. Edmonton CAC - AMBHL Top 3 Manitoba 1.

Bantam Draft Study

2012-02-03T10:13:00.000-08:00

Continuing from yesterday, we continue to study various trends and occurrences from recent WHL bantam drafts, going back to 2006. Past Four WHL Bantam Draft First Round Picks Alberta - 43 B.C. - 21 Saskatchewan - 19 Manitoba - 3 - It is interesting to note that although Alberta has dominated the bantam draft in the first round over recent year's in terms of top talent, the last first overall

AMBHL This Week

2012-02-03T07:48:00.000-08:00

Tuesday Evening Edmonton SSAC (22-4-3) 7 - Edmonton MLAC (8-22-1) 2 SSAC move two points ahead of Sherwood Park in the race for first in the Nitro North of the AMBHL. They have just 4 games remaining with just 6 points separating 1st place SSAC and 4th place CAC. In this game it was league scoring leader Giorgio Estephan with 2-1-3, improving him to 34-49-83 which is a 13 point lead over 2nd

First Rounders By Province - Past 6 years

2012-02-02T10:12:00.000-08:00

2006 WHL Bantam Draft British Columbia - 10 Alberta - 3 Saskatchewan - 6 Manitoba - 2 Forwards - 14 Defence - 6 Goalies - 1 After Cowen picked 1st overall, the next defenceman taken was 11th. Saskatchewan had 4 of the top 9 selections. Alberta was remarkably low on draft picks with 3 players taken and 2 of them - Penner and Chaffin never did anything of note in the WHL. 2007 WHL Bantam Draft

What does the Bantam Draft really mean?

2012-02-02T08:33:00.000-08:00

Every year there are several players over-looked in the WHL bantam draft who go on to become big stars in the WHL. The list is long and includes names such as Jarome Iginla, Darcy Tucker, Jeff Friesen, Dan Hamhuis, Scotty Upshall, Joffrey Lupul, Jeff Woywitka and Shane Doan. Many of these names not only were World Junior hockey players for Canada, but also went on to All-Star type careers in

Western U.S.A Top 10

2012-01-31T07:59:00.000-08:00

With more and more American hockey players choosing the route of the WHL and its fantastic education program options, we've decided to amp up the coverage of this group for the final 3 months prior to the bantam draft. With that said, we now have a top 65 list of western U.S.A players who are eligable to be drafted in the coming bantam draft. With that said, many of the players listed may or

Provincial Top 10 Team Rankings

2012-01-30T07:24:00.000-08:00

It has been a while since we've offered the rankings on the top 10 teams in each province. There have been several readers of the newsletter and/or the blog who have asked about some of the Saskatchewan teams or for that matter even the Manitoba teams and how they rank. It is a bit easier to rank the B.C. and Alberta teams this year due to the fact many of the top teams have met at the

Sunday, January 29 Update

2012-01-29T13:21:00.000-08:00

Manitoba Brandon 3 - Winnipeg Monarchs 2 In a battle of two of the top teams in the Winnipeg AAA league it was Brandon riding the hot goaltending of Tyson Verhelst to a 3-2 victory on Saturday. For Brandon, it was Jordy Stallard scoring his 10th, Marco Campanella his 12th and Hechler with his 5th of the season. The Monarchs goals both came off the stick of league scoring leader Jackson Keane.

Sunday, January 29 Update

2012-01-29T12:28:00.000-08:00

January 30, 2012 newsletter is now ready

2012-01-27T14:17:00.000-08:00

*Stats have been updated for all Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba players up to January 27, 2012. The Stats now included all GSHL player stats which are available for individual players upon request. THE PCACA doesn't produce specific stats, so if any of you have these or would like them included, please forward. From B.C., we have updated POE, OHA, Kamloops and Seafair individual player