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Canes captain Kambeitz closes his junior career on familiar territory
By Dale Woodard on May 6th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDsports@lethbridgeherald.com For Dino Kambeitz – and every graduating 20-year-old across the Western Hockey League – it probably wasn’t quite the end to his major junior career that he envisioned. Playing in a COVID-19-ravaged 2021 WHL season, the product of Parker, Colorado’s final season consisted of 24 fanless games against exclusively Central Division opponents with ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!It’s been a weird one…
By Dale Woodard on May 6th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDsports@lethbridgeherald.com It’s been an odd season, to say the least. Peculiar, quirky, bizarre, whack-a-doodle É just plain goofy. So as the Lethbridge Hurricanes wrapped up their 24-game Western Hockey League regular season – shortened due to a certain pandemic – with a 3-2 overtime loss to the Edmonton Oil Kings Tuesday night in Edmonton, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hurricanes topped in overtime in season-closer
By Dale Woodard on May 5th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDsports@lethbridgeherald.com It was the Lethbridge Hurricanes final game of the season, so they played a little longer. Granted, it was only 21 seconds longer and ultimately the Edmonton Oil Kings emerged with the win, but the Canes still took a point off the Central Division champions following a 3-2 overtime loss in Western Hockey ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Cats got claws: Tigers top Canes Sunday
By Dale Woodard on May 4th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDsports@lethbridgeherald.com It came down Game 3 of the Lethbridge Hurricanes and Medicine Hat Tigers weekend series, but the Tigers clawed out the decision. Tigers forward Ryan Chyzowski scored the hat trick as Medicine Hat got past the Hurricanes 6-2 in Western Hockey League play Sunday night at the Enmax Centre. Chyzowski scored once in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Tigers take weekend series over Canes
By Dale Woodard on May 3rd, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDsports@lethbridgeherald.com It came down Game 3 of the Lethbridge Hurricanes and Medicine Hat Tigers weekend series, but the Tigers clawed out the decision. Tigers forward Ryan Chyzowski scored the hat trick as the Tigers got past the Hurricanes 6-2 in Western Hockey League play Sunday night at the Enmax Centre. Chyzowski scored once in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Tetachuk gets 50th career WHL win, Canes double Tigers
By Dale Woodard on May 2nd, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDsports@lethbridgeherald.com Carl Tetachuk hit a milestone win mark and the Lethbridge Hurricanes have evened their weekend series with the Medicine Hat Tigers. Tetachuk stopped 17 shots for his 50th career win as the Canes downed the Tigers 6-3 in Western Hockey League play Saturday night in Medicine Hat. With the win, the 20-year-old Lethbridge ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Gymnasts tumble in front of the camera
By Dale Woodard on May 1st, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDsports@lethbridgeherald.com The watchful eyes of four judges were replaced by one glass eye as members of the West Wind Gymnastics Club took part in their first competition since February of 2020 in the Battle at the Bridge. Hitting the mat for their first meet a little over 14 months after the COVID-19 pandemic wrecked ... Read More »
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By Dale Woodard on April 30th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDsports@lethbridgeherald.com A pair of shorthanded goals were more than enough to power the Medicine Hat Tigers to victory Thursday night. The Tigers topped the Lethbridge Hurricanes 6-2 in Western Hockey League play Thursday night at the Enmax Centre, the first of three weekend games between the two rivals that continues Saturday night in Medicine ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hurricanes and Tigers get ready to clash again
By Dale Woodard on April 29th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDsports@lethbridgeherald.com It’s time for the Highway 3 rivalry between the Lethbridge Hurricanes and the Medicine Hat Tigers. Take two. With the COVID-19 shortened Western Hockey League season winding down, the Canes and Tigers will clash one more time in a three-game set starting tonight at the Enmax Centre at 7 p.m. before heading to ... Read More »
1 responseHorns jersey numbers retired
By Dale Woodard on April 29th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDsports@lethbridgeherald.com Perry Mirkovich and Shawna (Molcak) Kolaczek’s jersey will soon hang in the rafters of the 1st Choice Savings Centre. But in the eyes of the two University of Lethbridge Pronghorns alumni, there were a whole lot of teammates, coaches and friends who helped put them there. Mirkovich and Kolaczek, two of the most ... Read More »
1 responseKodiaks, ACAC cleared to prepare for the fall season
By Dale Woodard on April 28th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDsports@lethbridgeherald.com It’s with a bit of cautious optimism, but the Lethbridge College Kodiaks and the rest of the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference have been cleared to begin preparing for the 2021-22 season this fall. After the COVID-19 pandemic wiped out the 2020-21 season, the ACAC has been granted approval to draft schedules and commence ... Read More »
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