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[2 Feb 2010 | No Comment | 88 views]

By Sheri Monk
Lindsay Carson will be making his debut appearance at the Maple Creek 2010 4 on 4 Celebrity Tournament, but he’s looking forward to it.

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[19 Jan 2010 | One Comment | 123 views]
Someone roars “Smitty scores!” at the good ole hockey game

By Sheri Monk
Saturday Night means Hockey Night in Canada, an honoured tradition upheld for generations.

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[12 Jan 2010 | 3 Comments | 200 views]
Zack Smith answers NHL’s call to duty, gets lost en route

By Sheri Monk
The call came late at night, after the Ottawa Senator’s 5-2 loss to the Capitals in Washington Jan. 7, which saw the team’s leading goal scorer, Milan Michalek injured and out with a possible concussion.

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[12 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 61 views]

By Sheri Monk
Colin Patterson may be a Stanley Cup-winning hockey player, but when he was in college, all he really wanted was his degree.

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[12 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 65 views]

By Dorian Geiger
An exclusive interview with Canadian gold medal Olympian Joan McCusker.
Joan McCusker is possibly best known for her role as the second on the late Sandra Schmirler’s dynamic Canadian Olympic gold medal curling team of 1998 and their dominance of the Scott Tournament of Hearts in the early-mid ‘90s. McCusker has also racked up three Worlds Women’s Curling Championships.

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[12 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 52 views]

By Dorian Geiger
In a patriotic frenzy of celebration, the torch came through Swift Current on Sunday, heralded by people from across the Southwest.

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[5 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 72 views]

By Dorian Geiger
SASKATOON – There was no way Canada’s World Junior head coach, Willie Desjardins, would allow an upset of the same magnitude Russia experienced against the Swiss the day prior and the Canadians put the high flying European team in their place by a score of 6-1 on Jan. 3 in the semi-finals of the IIHF U20 tournament.

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[5 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 219 views]

By Dorian Geiger and Sheri Monk
Senior hockey holds a special place in the heart of the rural community. And the White Mud Hockey League, with just seven teams, but tremendous fan support, the thrills and spills of everyone’s favourite senior team help make a long, cold winter a little shorter.

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[5 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 260 views]

By Dorian Geiger
The midway point in the Prairie Junior Hockey League for the Cypress Cylcones has been bittersweet.
Presently sitting in fifth place in their division, the Cyclones are eight points behind Assiniboia Southern Rebels and need to improve their 7-19-3 record in 2010 if the team wants to taste the post-season.

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[5 Jan 2010 | 3 Comments | 1,871 views]

By Dorian Geiger
In a town notorious throughout Saskatchewan for the brutality of their hockey fans, the usual heckles and jeers that resound from Kerrobert have been replaced with tears and mourning after the death of 26-year-old Tigers senior hockey player Deon Volk.