The Brandon Wheat
Kings will play their home opener on the first Saturday on the 2016-2017
season, hosting the Moose Jaw Warriors.
The festivities
that night will include the hoisting of the WHL Championship banner.
Brandon opens
their 50th anniversary season in the Western Hockey League the night
before, when they visit the Warriors to begin the season-opening home-and-home
series.
In other Wheat Kings’
news, Reid Duke did not sign with the Minnesota Wild by Wednesday’s deadline for
NHL teams to ink 2014 draft picks.
Duke was a sixth
round pick of the Wild in the 2014 NHL Draft, and he’ll now re-enter this year’s
NHL Draft.
Speaking of this
year’s NHL Draft, Kale Clague and Tanner Kaspick are currently in
Buffalo participating in the NHL Scouting Combine.
NHL teams have
the opportunity to conduct one-one-one interviews with prospects in attendance.
Clague was 27th and Kaspick 79th among North American skaters in the NHL Central Scouting Service’s final rankings.
Medicial exams
for the players take place Thursday, with the majority of fitness testing occurring
on Saturday.
Clague was 27th and Kaspick 79th among North American skaters in the NHL Central Scouting Service’s final rankings.
In WHL news, the
Vancouver Giants will introduce Jason McKee as the seventh head coach in
franchise history on Thursday.
McKee has spent the
last six seasons as GM and Head Coach of the AJHL’s Spruce Grove Saints.
And the Prince
George Cougars will introduce their new head coach on Thursday.
Reports are former
NHL defenceman Richard Matvichuk will get the job.
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