Brandon's Cole Slobodian scored his first career goal Saturday night for the Portland Winterhawks. Slobodian suited up in 5-playoff games last season with the Winterhawks. what a beauty it was 🥶 pic.twitter.com/DKdBzRUxBD — Portland Winterhawks (@pdxwinterhawks) February 16, 2025 Playoffs are now underway in the Tiger Hills Hockey League. Winners in 3 of the 4 Quarter-Finals have already been determined as Minnedosa eliminated Carberry, Hartney dispatched Souris, and Melita upended Deloraine in their best of 3 series. The series between Neepawa and MacGregor is currently tied at one a piece with game 3 slated for Monday night in MacGregor. Former Brandon Wheat King Brenden Walker captured the regular season scoring title in the South Eastern Manitoba Hockey League. Walker amassed an impressive 61 points in 16 games with the Ste Anne Aces. Like the THHL, playoffs have already started in the SEMHL. Former Wheat Kings Jordan Depape and Darren Bestland are also members of the Aces team. Rivers will play host this upcoming weekend (Feb 20-23) to the Female U18 Rural A& B Provincials. Nine teams will compete, in the 2-different divisions, including the Female U18 Brandon Wheaties. Century 21 Brandon recently held their 14th Annual Easter Seals Bonspiel which raised $9,500 for the charity. The BIRT Cup announced  the 2025 charitable recipients for the IG Wealth Management Bobcat BIRT Cup set for July 4 at Wheat City Golf Course including: Bobcat student-athlete, Boissevain Golf Club, Carberry Splash Park, Manitoba Softball Hall of Fame relocation, Pilot Mound Golf Course, Treherne hockey rink upgrades, Westman Ski Club, and the Wheat City Tennis Club. Several members (Sydney Sass, Chloe Kachur, Danica Averill) of the Brandon Wheat Kings U18 Female hockey team were in Winnipeg over the long-weekend participating in the annual women’s under-18 Program of Excellence top-68 camp. Additional information on the camp can be found here. Brandon's EVO Golf (Austin Dobrescu) will be partnering with the Popular Ridge Golf Course for the 2025 golf season. EVO Golf will be managing the Pro Shop, as well as providing lessons, clinics, junior camps and more

The second week of the 54th annual Brandon Tournament of Champions ended today with champions being crowned in three different divisions.  Forty  teams participated over the weekend including teams from Moosomin, Winnipeg, Minot, Regina, Saskatoon & more. M and M Food Market U11 A1 Henry Green, Doughty Toms, and Hunter Birch scored for the Moosomin Ice Badgers as they edged out the Minot Wolves 3-1 in the U11 A1 championship final. Goalie Karter Hebert registered stopped 38 of 39 shots to pick up the win. Keumper Aberle replied with the lone goal for the Wolves. Assiniboine College Female U13 AA Paisley McIntyre scored at the 13:13 mark of the 3rd period to lift the Southeast Youngfellows Gold Wings to a narrow 2-1 win over the Saskatoon Comet Hurricanes, in the Assiniboine College Female U13 AA final. Hunter Sands also scored for the Gold Wings who went a went a perfect 5-0 on the weekend. Ellie Jeffrey replied for the Hurricanes. East Side Mario's U15 AA In a battle of two undefeated teams, the Eastman Southwest Jets won the A-Side Final 4.3 over the Fort Francis Canadians. The Jets received goals from four different skaters; Justin Robidoux, Dallas Vermette, Dalin Comeault, and Lucas Roeland. Scoring for the Canadians were Kolton Joyce, Jayce Gavel, and Kolby Wood.

Brandon Firefighter Paramedic Chaelynn Stewart (Kitz) along with Saskatchewan’s team Martin go 2 and 0 in the opening days of the 2025 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. Chaelynn born and raised in Oxbow Saskatchewan moved to the Westman area a couple years ago.    She completed at the Scotties for the first time in 2021 followed by the Canadian National Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in 2023 and 2024. Stewart represented Saskatchewan at back-to-back Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Championships with her now husband Brayden Stewart in 2018 and 2019. In 2018, the pair finished first place in their pool with a 5–2 record before losing in the quarterfinals. At their second appearance in 2019, they just missed the playoffs with a 4–3 record. Stewart joined the Sherry Andersonrink for the 2019–20 season. The team had three semifinal finishes and two quarterfinal finishes on the World Curling Tour.  At the 2020 Saskatchewan Scotties Tournament of Hearts, they lost in the final. Team Anderson was invited to represent Saskatchewan at the 2021 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, and finished in sixth place. She currently plays third on team Saskatchewan with team Martin. (article and photo submitted)

Photo: Brandon TOC Week one of the annual Hockey Brandon Tournament of Champions concluded Sunday with champions being decided in 3 different divisions. Male U13 A  Merrick Huberdeau notched 3 goals and an assist to lead the Russell Rams to a decisive 6-3 victory over the Dauphin Kings in the Male U13A final. Also scoring for Russell was Cash Nerbas (1), Jaxxon Tremblay (1), and Wickus Pieterse (2). Goalie Ryder Lappage recorded 12 saves to pickup the win in net for the Rams. Male U13 AA The Brandon Wheat Kings Black U13A club scored 5 goals in the first period en-route to a 9-1 drubbing of the Minto Wolves in the U13A final on Sunday afternoon. Kale Nicol lead the way with 5 goals and 2 assists. Walker Hargreaves, Bowe Bridges, Nixon Boguski and Oliver Martin each chipped in with a goal a piece for the Wheat Kings. Male U15 A  Rayden Mayer and Mex Kessler each found he back of the net 3 times as the Prairie Storm Thunder rolled past the Swan Valley Stampeders 9-5 in a game played at the Enns Brothers Arena. Swan River's Dylan Anderson replied with a hattrick of his own in the loss, while teammate Luke Harness had 5-points on the strength of 2 goals and 3 assists.. Week 2 takes place this weekend and sees teams from Regina, Minot, Winnipeg, Fort Francis  and more competing in 3 different divisions. U11 A1 Female U13 AA Male U15 AA

Former Brandon Wheat King, from Roblin and now calls Brandon home ,Jayce Hawryluk has made a mid season change in Europe. Jayce started the year in Slovakia in Nove Zamky and recently his contract was bought out by EHC Kloten in the top league in Switzerland. Kloten is roughly 15 minutes away from Zurich. Of note Hawryluk informed BDNMB.CA while we were in Europe his favorite meal is seaweed. The staff and mgmt of BDNMB.CA DO NOT agree with his meal preference.