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Brayden Poirier had a five-point night with four goals and an assist to lead the Carman Cougars past the Garden Valley Zodiacs 7-2 in the lone Zone 4 High School Hockey League game Tuesday. Nate Phillips added a pair of goals for the visiting Cougars while Brayden Cox had the other Carman goal. Josh Hiebert chipped in with three helpers. Mark Schefer and Rhett Peters replied for the Zodiacs. 

As the puck drops on the WHL Cup tournament in Red Deer tonight, there are five members of the Swift Current Home Hardware Legionnaires lining up for Team Saskatchewan.

That's more representatives than any other Saskatchewan U18 AAA team at the showcase for elite 15-year-olds in the western Canadian provinces. 

Tuesday, October 22nd

Zone 4 High School Hockey League
Carman 7 Garden Valley 2

MJHL
Selkirk 5 Neepawa 2

While the road has had many ups and downs for Winnipeg Blue Bombers' Sergio Castillo, Noah Hallett, and Nick Hallett, they credit their faith to helping them get through the challenging circumstances. 

Castillo originally started the sport after being recruited from the soccer team. He says, "One day the football coach came over to the soccer fields like, 'Hey, we're looking for a football kicker' and, you know, I went to go try out and have been doing this for 16 years."

A wild scene unfolded on Saturday night when the Steinbach Pistons and Portage Terriers faced off at Stride Place. The first meeting of the two teams saw Portage pull out a close 4-2 victory in the game, but also saw something Terriers fans haven't seen in some time.

It's like a flashback to his early years with the Swift Current Broncos for veteran defenceman Grayson Burzynski

With six defenceman on the roster who are 17 years old or younger, it reminds Burzynski of the start of his WHL career.

The Highwood High School Mustangs came up short against the Olds High School Spartans in a 37-13 football game on Friday (Oct. 18).

The game marked the final home game for the Mustangs as they will play their final game of the regular season on the road.

Friday night (Oct. 25), Carstairs will host the final game against the Mustangs as they aim to end the season on a high note.

The Grande Prairie Storm are proud to announce the signing of 2004 born defenceman Damian Palmieri.

The Delta , BC product is coming to the GP Storm from the WHL Vancouver Giants, where he has spent the previous 3 seasons. Damian was a 4th round, 87th overall Bantam pick by the Giants back in 2019. Since then, he has suited up for a total of 129 regular season games with the Giants, scoring 5 goals 11 assist, and racking up 231 penalty minutes. The 6’1 190-pound Palmieri also suited up for 17 playoff games over the 3 seasons, scoring 1 goal and 2 assists. 

Friday night lights saw the Foothills Falcons dress up for their black-out game during the final homestand of the season. 

The Falcons impressed on the gridiron as they defeated the Strathmore Spartans 38-2.

Foothills ran away with the game quite literally with 208 rushing yards to the Spartans 44. The final yardage was heavily in favour of the Falcons with a 317-101 lead.

The Okotoks-based team went 4 for 5 on third downs and didn't create a single turnover. Foothills is now on a current two-game win streak after the victory.

Today, it was announced that Airdronian Jake Neighbours signed a contract extension with the St. Louis Blues.

Blues President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Doug Armstrong made the announcement saying it is a two-year contract extension worth an annual average value of $3.75 million.

During his first four seasons with the Blues, Neighbours, a former captain and Western Hockey League (WHL) champion with the Edmonton Oil Kings, has amassed 53 points (36 goals, 17 assists) and 51 penalty minutes in 135 regular-season games.