Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League

SUCCESS STARTS HERE: La Ronge’s Layton a Viking forged in the north

The Success Starts Here series features profiles on SJHL Alumni who are currently, or have played hockey at a post-secondary institution. Check out the full interviews every Thursday on the SJHL Insider Podcast and check back at SJHL.ca for profile pieces Wednesdays. There isn’t a much more beautiful view in Saskatchewan than a sunset over […]

Golden Sheaf: Wings’ Molde: “Parallels between hockey, farm crystal clear”

(Golden Sheaf profile written by Jamie Neugebauer/SJHL Co-Director of Media) The parallels between his characteristics as a hockey player and the lessons learned on Drew Molde’s grandfather’s farm are crystal clear. Weyburn’s veteran forward brings the same attitude regardless of the circumstances, and he gives his all to whatever role his coach, Cody Mapes, needs […]

SUCCESS STARTS HERE: SJHL alum Renwick thriving in AHL

The Success Starts Here series features profiles on SJHL Alumni who are currently, or have played hockey at a post-secondary institution. Check out the full interviews every Thursday on the SJHL Insider Podcast and check back at SJHL.ca for profile pieces Wednesdays. Nolan Renwick is in so many ways the archetypal prairie hockey player. The […]

Golden Sheaf: Kirwan twins’ farm-built foundation fuels their hockey journey

(Golden Sheaf profile written by Jamie Neugebauer/SJHL Co-Director of Media) In the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, few players embody the connection between agriculture and hockey quite like Sam and Will Kirwan. Raised in the tight-knit farming community of Gull Lake in southwest Saskatchewan, the 18-year-old twins have carried their rural work ethic directly onto the […]

SUCCESS STARTS HERE: Friedt-Mohr: From an SJHL crest to an officer’s badge

The Success Starts Here series features profiles on SJHL Alumni who are currently, or have played hockey at a post-secondary institution. Check out the full interviews every Thursday on the SJHL Insider Podcast and check back at SJHL.ca for profile pieces Wednesdays. There were all sorts of special elements to Chase Friedt-Mohr’s 2023-24 season with […]

Golden Sheaf: Klippers’ Eger approach to hockey, life the same

(Golden Sheaf profile written by Jamie Neugebauer/SJHL Co-Director of Media) For Kindersley Klippers forward Van Eger, hockey and hard work have always gone hand in hand. Whether it’s grinding out a shift in overtime or long days on the family farm near Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan, Eger’s approach is simple: stay consistent, stay committed, and never […]

SUCCESS STARTS HERE: North Stars alum Bell’s success a family affair

The Success Starts Here series features profiles on SJHL Alumni who are currently, or have played hockey at a post-secondary institution. Check out the full interviews every Thursday on the SJHL Insider Podcast and check back at SJHL.ca for profile pieces Wednesdays. True, the decade is only half over, but it would take some doing […]

Golden Sheaf: Terriers’ Ries exemplifies what hockey players/farmers have in common

(Golden Sheaf profile written by Jamie Neugebauer/SJHL Co-Director of Media) The great writer Victor Hugo wrote, “Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.” Yorkton Terriers defenceman Tommy Ries’s style is clear and consistent every time he plays. Physical, mature, and whatever it takes to get the job done; essentially, what […]

Golden Sheaf: Bombers’ Tanchuk lives his lessons from the farm

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 […]