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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
