For all the razzle-dazzle of the Flin Flon Bombers, who have made every SJHL Final in the 2020s, the heartbeat of their success truly comes from the grit and determination of Cole Tanchuk and those like him. Tanchuk, 20, is a rugged, 6-foot-1, 199-pound defender from a cattle farming family near Shellbrook, SK, 45 kilometres […]
Written by Jamie Neugebauer, SJHL Co-Director of Media It doesn’t take a long conversation with Austin Shepherd to understand why Melfort Mustangs’ Head Coach Trevor Blevins wants him in the lineup every night. Physical? Check. Anything for the team? Check. Skating? Check. Simply put, he’s a winner. “When you are on the farm, you are […]
Landen Stromme’s Under-15 2018-19 North East Wolfpack team reads like a 2024-25 Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League all-star squad. Zac Somers. Caden Drury. Jacob Cossette. Nicholas Andrusiak. Throw in the likes of Western Hockey League veterans Connor Hvidston, Nate Misskey, a San Jose Sharks prospect, Roan Woodward, and Rhett Ravndahl. And Stromme as its beating heart. […]
– written by Jamie Neugebauer It is October 9th, 2024. Notre Dame is in town to face the Kindersley Klippers. It is just the seventh game of Klippers’ defenceman Jaxon Herchak’s junior hockey career. Second period, scoreless game. The Hounds turn the puck over, and it falls to Herchak’s partner, Kyler Smith. Head up the […]
Battlefords North Stars’ forward Rylan Williams approaches hockey like he has observed his parents’ approach with their family farm in Kyle, SK. With resilience and relentlessness and without excuses. “I think this summer we picked between 500 and 600 bales of hay on top of our other chores,” he says. “(I was taught) that you […]
(Written by Jamie Neugebauer) The small-world nature of hockey in Saskatchewan means that intense rivalries are often born out of the familiarity of contempt. That said, it is difficult to imagine a player in the SJHL who wants to beat a particular team compared to how Nipawin Hawks’ forward Finley Radloff wants to beat the […]
Cash Arntsen has agriculture deep in his bones. The Kindersley Klipper player-turned-coach has multiple generations of farming and ranching in his family, so the fact he is passionate about it and wants to make it his livelihood should come as no surprise. “I do a lot of deliveries (to farms),” he says. “I do some […]
(Article courtesy Martin Martinson/BattlefordsNow) From his effortless skating stride to his shifty puck handling, and poise beyond his years, it hasn’t taken long for Battlefords North Stars defenceman, Carson Olsen to establish himself as worth the price of admission on the Battlefords’ blue line this season. That’s why it came as no surprise to hear […]
(Article written by Jamie Neugebauer) In the case of a small town like La Ronge, the love a young person can have for their nearby junior hockey team can be immense. When Ice Wolves’ forward Jacob Cossette is asked about suiting up for the club, the emotion in his voice is obvious and palatable. “(Playing […]
(Article Courtesy Melfortmustangs.com) Graduated Mustangs player Leyton Holoien is going to be joining the University of Regina Cougars for the upcoming 2023-24 season. Holoien came to the Mustangs as a rookie in 2020. Only playing two games due to Covid, Holoien came back ready to go for the 2021-22 season, earning himself 4 goals and […]
