Brandon's Ryan White has signed a PTO to attend camp with the Vancouver Canucks. Last season, the former Calgary Hitmen, split time between the NHL's Arizona Coyotes and Minnesota Wild. Layne Toder, a 170 lb defenseman, has signed with the Calgary Hitmen of the WHL. Last season the native of Elkhorn, MB was a member of the Portage Terriers where he scored 28 points in 44 games. Toder was selected by the Hitmen in the 4th round, 85th overall, in the 2015 draft. One-time What King prospect, Brad Goethals is in camp with the WHL's Saskatoon Blades. Rugged forward Darian Dziurzynski, who spent time with the Wheat Kings back in 2011/12, signed a 1-year contract with Zvolen (Slovakia, Extraliga). Last season Darian was a member of the Manchester Storm, of the EIHL, where he had a productive year scoring 29 goals in 50 regular season games. Corbin Boes has been invited to camp with the NHL's Detroit Red Wings. Boes spent 3 seasons between the pipes with the Wheat Kings picking up 46 regular season wins in the process. The North Central Hockey League may be expanding by one team for the 17/18 season. The Shoal Lake Eagles were tentatively accepted into the league at the league's annual meeting held back in April. Shoal Lake's acceptance would leave the league with 9 teams, as all the other 8 teams indicated they were returning for 17/18.

Sep 8th As part of our Grand Opening program for the Ashley Neufeld Softball Complex, and to say THANKS to all of you we are offering free softball clinic with the Dickinson State University Blue Hawks. To register and other details please click this link. Sep 9th We are ready! After a few years of hard work and frustration, good people and generous people, and help, a lot of help, we are ready to open the Ashley Neufeld Softball Complex. Please join us in our celebration of community and sport on September 9th. It's all free as a thank you to all of our supporters and believers. There will be coffee, cookies, balloons, laughter, and of course, softball. https://goo.gl/nYPZx

It was a special day for two local hockey products as they have signed standard player agreements with WHL clubs. Daemon Hunt, a 190 lb defenseman, signed with the Moose Jaw Warriors earlier today.  He was selected in the 1st round, 15th overall at the 2017 draft.  Last year Daemon skated with the Bantam AAA Wheat Kings where he put up 60 points, in just 36 games.  This summer he patrolled the blue line for Smitty's, in the Wendy's Summer Hockey League, where he helped his team capture the division 1 championship. Over in Regina, Tristen Robins has signed on with the Regina Pats.  Robins was selected by the Pats in 2016 after amassing an impressive 91 points in 35 games that season, with the AAA Bantam Wheat Kings.  This past season Tristen joined the Rink Hockey Academy, out of Winnipeg, where he tallied 13 points in 25 regular season games.  He is the son of former Wheat King goalie, Trevor Robins.  Tonight, he is wearing #26 (blue) in the Pats annual Blue-White inter-squad game.

The final 4 in the Tamaracks Men's Championship Flight has been determined following match play action on Thursday. Kody Fawcett will battle Geoff Gregoire in semi final action, as Jay Thiesen tackles Steve Young in the tournaments other semi-final. In action earlier today, Fawcett toppled four time Champion Jared Jaccobson while Gregoire upended Dale Murray. Thiessen advanced to the semi's taking down Bad Pardy and Young moves on after defeating Chas Wood. Full tournament results for all flights/championships can be found here.

Brandon, MB. – For the first time in eight years, the Western Hockey League’s Brandon Wheat Kings will feature new look home white jerseys for the 2017-18 campaign.  The new Reebok CCM jerseys were modelled at Thursday afternoon’s media reception at the Canad Inns by veteran center Tanner Kaspick. The white jerseys will be worn on the road for the first half of the season, before becoming the home jerseys after Christmas. However, the Wheat Kings have announced plans to debut the jerseys during their Home Opener on September 22nd against the visiting Regina Pats. The new white jersey features black on the shoulders and hemline and reversing the colours. The design was loosely based on the Wheat Kings’ 2010 Memorial Cup jersey and will fit in nicely with the ’49 Vintage style thirds as well. As with the jerseys introduced in 2009, they will be anatomically designed to work in unison with protective equipment and consists of advanced materials which will continue to provide better ventilation for the players. Tickets to that game as well as Brandon’s two pre-season games will go on sale at 10am Tuesday, September 5th at the Keystone Centre box office, online at keystonecentre.com or by calling (204) 726-3555.