Andrew covers the NHL, Canucks and WHL for The Hockey Writers and THW-Combine. Also covers the Seattle Thunderbirds for 710 ESPN Seattle. Follow me on twitter @andyeide for more thoughts, sometimes of the snarky variety, about hockey, the Canucks and the WHL.
After a long lay off the WHL playoffs are set to resume Thursday night with Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals between the Calgary Hitmen and the Edmonton Oil Kings. Out west the Kamloops Blazers will begin their battle with the top ranked Portland Winterhawks in Game 1 on Friday night, in Portland. These [...]
The Kelowna Rockets avoided elimination from the WHL playoffs Saturday as they hung on to beat the upstart Seattle Thunderbirds 4-3 in Game 5 of their first round playoff series. The win gave the Rockets their second straight win in the series, after losing three straight overtime wins. As the two teams return to Seattle [...]
It sure seems like the WHL playoffs are headed towards a rematch of last year’s thrilling finals between the Portland Winterhawks and Edmonton Oil Kings. The only two WHL games Friday night featured the two front runners and both came away with big wins. Portland stomps In Everett the Winterhawks completely dominated the Silvertips, scoring [...]
That’s why they play the games. With certainty every sports fan has heard that phrase. Usually it’s uttered by a fan of an underdog team, mostly to try to make themselves feel better about their club’s inevitable fate. So far in the WHL playoffs however, its the absolute truth. In both the Western Conference and [...]
The Western Hockey League kicks off it’s post season run this weekend with a slew of good series opening up. In the Western Conference the playoffs are the race to see if anyone can upset the high-flying Portland Winterhawks. Without a doubt the Winterhawks are the team to beat but could potentially face challenges from [...]
The Everett Silvertips and Seattle Thunderbirds have enjoyed a healthy rivalry over the past ten years in the Western Hockey League. Last season Everett barely nudged Seattle out of the playoffs, beating them by a single point for the last Western Conference playoff spot. The two teams find themselves in another tight race as the [...]
The WHL season has two weeks left in it and with the playoffs looming there are some intriguing races that have yet to be decided. While the Portland Winterhawks and Edmonton Oil Kings have their conferences top seeds all locked up there are still some struggles down the standings. It’s the time of year for [...]
The Saskatoon Blades took on an extra amount of pressure this season as the 2013 Memorial Cup host team. As the host team they of course get the automatic bid, which means they are just a handful of games of possibly winning junior hockey’s greatest trophy but they also get that extra pressure. What pressure? [...]
The Portland Winterhawks skated into Kelowna this past weekend to face what was supposed to be their biggest challenge of the season. The red hot Rockets had won 23 straight games at home, were scoring at a pace to match the Winterhawks and had been making some ground in the standings on Portland. Not only [...]
The Western Hockey League playoffs don’t officially start until the middle of March but as the Portland Winterhawks and Kelowna Rockets square off this weekend it will feel like they have begun early. The two teams are the class of the Western Conference and perhaps the WHL as a whole. The games Friday and Saturday [...]
