By Benny Walchuk
Apr 29, 2021 | 11:16 AM
Wednesday was the end of an almost 2 month run in the Western Hockey League’s East Division hub in Regina, but it also spelled the completion of the WHL career of Foam Lake’s Kaleb Bulych.
Bulych and the Swift Current Broncos’ wrapped up their 24 game abbreviated schedule last night (Wed) with an overtime loss to the Prince Albert Raiders.
“It’s been pretty surreal right now, but I’m super grateful for time in the WHL. Not a lot of players get to spend a lot of time in that high-level league like I did so I’m happy to have had the opportunity to improved myself as a player and person,” Bulych said.
Wolf early, Regnier late, Silvertips beat Winterhawks 6-2
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Wolf early, Regnier late, Silvertips beat Winterhawks 6-2: A 37-save effort by Dustin Wolf and a hat trick by Ethan Regnier led the Everett Silvertips to a 6-2 win over the Portland Winterhawks Sunday night at Angel of the Winds Arena in Everett, Washington. It’s the eighth straight win for Everett over the Winterhawks, in a stretch when the two teams have usually run 1-2 in the Western Hockey League’s US Division.
Wolf saves Everett in the 1st: The key stretch for Portland was the 1st period, where they outshot the Silvertips 18-7 but were held off the scoreboard by Wolf, and the game was scoreless after 1 period. He was especially effective against Portland’s forward duo of Seth Jarvis and Jaydon Dureau, who played one of their best periods of the season but were shut out. Wolf held the fort long enough for his teammates to get into the game the last two periods.
Broncos drop season opener to Blades
March 14, 2021
Swift Current Broncos forward Michael Farren (right) caught Saskatoon s Brandon Lisowsky in the open ice during the 2020-21 season opener in Regina on March 13.
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The Swift Current Broncos opened the 2020-21 season on Saturday with a 4-2 loss to the Saskatoon Blades in Regina. The Broncos held a pair of leads, but the Blades scored three unanswered goals in the third period to pull out the win.
Kyle Crnkovic and Tristen Robins scored 37 seconds apart to turn the Broncos 2-1 lead into a Blades lead before Brandon Losowsky scored late to seal the win.
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The life and destructive legacy of Graham James
Twenty-five games into the Swift Current Broncos’ 1993-94 season, Darren McLean had reached his breaking point.
Days earlier, star forward Todd Holt had revealed a litany of horrors that he endured for years at the hands of their coach, Graham James.
The two players, who had been friends since playing minor hockey together in Estevan, Sask., were rooming together for the first time on a Broncos road trip.
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Graham James was last seen in a courtroom in the summer of 2015.
Appearing via video link from a Quebec prison, the disgraced junior hockey coach pleaded guilty in a Swift Current courtroom to sexual assault on one of his players during the early 1990s, and was sentenced to two additional years behind bars.
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It’s a warm late-August afternoon and Jay Macaulay is sitting in the empty lobby of Winnipeg’s train station fidgeting with a pen.
The life and destructive legacy of Graham James
It’s a warm late-August afternoon and Jay Macaulay is sitting in the empty lobby of Winnipeg’s train station fidgeting with a pen.
He just finished putting a check mark in his day planner, indicating another successfully finished workshop he’s required to attend each week as part of his parole conditions.
He says he feels good after the workshop meeting and is in a much better mood than he was earlier in the day; he had an argument with his ex-girlfriend over something he can’t even remember now.