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Calgary’s Merkley, Sawchenko crack Canada’s elite U18 hockey squad
Locals Nick Merkley and Zachary Sawchenko were among 22 players named Tuesday to the Team Canada U18 team which will compete in the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament, starting next week in Slovakia. The...
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Cross-town AJHL rivals Canucks, Mustangs gear up for season opener
Maybe, just maybe, it’s the start of something. Sure, it was only a friendly. Just a Sunday in late-August. But, even with nothing officially on the line, the Calgary Mustangs and the Calgary Canucks...
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Hitmen season preview: Calgary’s WHL club full of promise in 20th anniversary...
Mark French hasn’t been spending much time fretting about the players missing from his lineup. The first-year Calgary Hitmen coach has been more concerned about getting his remaining players ready for...
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’Dub Weekly: Calgarian Austin Strand makes WHL debut with Red Deer
Austin Strand survived a pair of nerve-racking experiences this past weekend. One night after suiting up for his first Western Hockey League game, the 17-year-old defenceman helped his Red Deer Rebels...
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Hitmen waste little time in solving numbers problems
The Calgary Hitmen managed to solve all of their ratio issues in the span of an afternoon. General manager Mike Moore swung a pair of Tuesday deals that got the Western Hockey League club in...
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’Dub Weekly: Russians adjusting to life in the WHL
Radel Fazleev emerged as the hero on Saturday at the Scotiabank Saddledome as the Calgary Hitmen rallied to beat the Kootenay Ice 6-4. The 18-year-old left winger scored the game-winning goal in the...
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Flames blueliner took long hard road to big league
EDMONTON — The teenager knew he couldn’t move mountains. But he figured he could at least approach one. Deryk Engelland, mere months after the New Jersey Devils made him a sixth-round selection at the...
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Hitmen rally too little, too late in 3-2 loss to visiting Cougars
The Calgary Hitmen had a game plan of peppering rookie goalie Tavin Grant with a lot of shots on Sunday. It didn’t pan out the way they wanted it to as Grant made 26 saves to backstop the visiting...
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’Dub Weekly: Hitmen rookies Malenstyn, Bean prepare for World U17 Challenge
Beck Malenstyn and Jake Bean will make history when they compete at the 2014 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge in Sarnia-Lambton, Ont., from Nov. 2-8. The pair of Calgary Hitmen rookies are among 17...
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Fazleev makes fur fly as Hitmen fans toss 25,214 stuffed toys for charity...
It took just 98 seconds. Many of the announced crowd of 17,543 fans were bear-ly even in their seats yet at the Scotiabank Saddledome. Those who were immediately started showering the ice with bags...
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Hitmen shockingly fall 10-2 at hands of visiting Moose Jaw Warriors
The Moose Jaw Warriors traditionally have trouble with the Calgary Hitmen, but they’ve thrown tradition out the window to start this Western Hockey League season. The visiting Warriors beat the...
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Warriors wreak havoc as they dump Hitmen hosts
Well … if that’s how you’re going to act, you can forget about getting invited back. Calgarians Brayden Point and Zach Sawchenko came home on Friday night and threw one heck of a party. A...
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Scott Fisher's WHL playoff predictions, Round 2
There were only two upsets in the opening round. And neither would qualify as earth-shattering. In fact, with the possible exception of the Lethbridge Hurricanes, it’s a safe bet to say the top eight...
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2016 WHL Bantam Draft: Kootenay Ice take Peyton Krebs of Okotoks with No. 1 pick
Alberta’s leading Bantam AAA scorer this past season is this year’s top pick in the 2016 Western Hockey League Bantam Draft. The Kootenay Ice took Peyton Krebs with the No. 1 pick in the draft held in...
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Hitmen fall short in OT against Warriors
Aaron Hyman put the Calgary Hitmen in position to pull off a comeback win over the Moose Jaw Warriors on Sunday afternoon. Nikita Popugaev had other ideas. Hyman scored the lone goal of the third...
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Hitmen lose wild contest to Warriors
MOOSE JAW — The Calgary Hitmen lost a wild game, on the road, to the Moose Jaw Warriors on Sunday. The Hitmen were on the wrong end of a 7-5 contest, which saw the teams combine for eight third-period...
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