By Dave Leaderhouse MELFORT MUSTANGS, C A player development fee the Melfort Mustangs paid to the Camrose Kodiaks of the Alberta Junior Hockey League in September could turn out to be the best investment the team made this year. The Mustangs acquired 19-year-old Colin Schmidt from the Kodiaks for the aforementioned fee and the 5-foot-11, 195-pound […]

By Dave Leaderhouse HUMBOLDT BRONCOS, RW When the Humboldt Broncos sent leading scorer Chris Van Os-Shaw west to the Alberta Junior Hockey League’s Spruce Grove Saints prior to the start of the season they knew they would need someone to step in and contribute to the offense. Logan Hunter has helped out quite nicely in his […]

By Dave Leaderhouse LA RONGE ICE WOLVES, D There is unlikely another player in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League that has bigger footprints to step into, but Ben Manson is quickly making his own imprint in the game. Manson, an 18-year-old rookie rearguard with the La Ronge Ice Wolves, is the son of former NHL defenceman […]

By Dave Leaderhouse ESTEVAN BRUINS,D Experience is a tangible quality that often gets overlooked, but it is consistently proven to be a benefit and Mark Edmands is using his experience to have a break-out year with the Estevan Bruins. The 18-year-old defenceman (he will turn 19 later this month) has almost matched his output from last […]

By Dave Leaderhouse NIPAWIN HAWKS, LW The Nipawin Hawks have carefully brought rookie forward Jordan Simoneau into the line-up, but when the 18-year-old is given the opportunity to play he has taken advantage of those situations being visible in more ways than one. At 6-foot-5 and 218 pounds, the Tisdale product has collected five goals and […]

By Dave Leaderhouse WEYBURN RED WINGS, RW It’s hard to imagine that the Winkler Flyers never kept Cade Kowalski in their future plans because a look at his recent history certainly indicates that the 18-year-old winger has plenty of potential. In fact, now that he has settled in with the Weyburn Red Wings, the Morden, Man., […]

By Dave Leaderhouse NOTRE DAME HOUNDS, C When 17-year-old players make the jump to junior hockey they generally have to wait their turn for an opportunity to get a larger role with their new team and that is exactly what has happened to Jared Hamm with the Notre Dame Hounds. Only with Hamm, the wait lasted […]

By Dave Leaderhouse MELVILLE MILLIONAIRES, C The Melville Millionaires have struggled to find the win column early in the 2017-18 Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League regular season, but a trade they made in the summer has given the club a solid building block for the foreseeable future. Ethan Kopyczyn, acquired from the Alberni Valley Bulldogs of the […]

By Dave Leaderhouse YORKTON TERRIERS, C It has been somewhat of a slow start out of the blocks for the Yorkton Terriers, but one player that has provided a bit of a spark is 18-year-old centre Cody Bruchkowski. Venturing west from his Cochenour, Ont., home for the first time, the 5-foot-11, 187-pound Bruchkowski has averaged almost […]

By Dave Leaderhouse KINDERSLEY KLIPPERS, RW The Kindersley Klippers have a number of new faces in its line-up this year and while Will Van der Sloot is one of those new players he does bring some Junior “A’ experience to the fold. The 18-year-old Van der Sloot comes to Kindersley after seeing limited action with the […]