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August 5, 2025: T-IRDS ANNOUNCE RECRUITING CLASS The T-irds are the first team to confirm a complete recruiting class. They previously announced one on their website (Jace Weir) and two more were reported by Elite Prospects. This announcement adds four more. They do not have a Roster Page...

August 4, 2025: A BISON OR A MOOSE? LUCAS BRENTON - D - Indy Fuel (ECHL) If the LOI registry is correct, the Bisons have a great addition. However, Elite Prospects has Lucas Brenton listed as a Manitoba Moose, not a Manitoba Bison. At 6'4" & 212 lbs, and with four full seasons with Moose...

August 3, 2025: BISONS LAND A 10TH RECRUIT ETHAN DEKAY - F - Weyburn (SJHL)/Okotoks (BCHL) Here we have a small-sized forward (5'10" 176 lbs), who had committed to Michigan Tech. He is from London, Ontario, but played for four teams across the AJHL, BCHL, and NAHL before settling down...

July 23, 2025: RANDOM STUFF & LINKS FROM BANJO-LAND This isn't exactly Bison news, but the MJHL put up an Instagram post which says their league had 65+ grads in USports in 2024-25. Too bad so few stories are being posted across the various leagues. Links: ➤ Instagram: Oct 21/24 ➤ MJHL...

July 18, 2025: RECRUIT NUMBER NINE The Bisons' 9th recruit was listed at Elite Prospects, who did an update of their lists on Friday. The Herd now has a 3rd forward, to go with the two goaltenders and four defencemen previously disclosed. JOEL PURDOM - C - Powell River/ Sherwood Park...

July 16, 2025: HERD LANDS TWO MORE RECRUITS The latest USports LOI list has two more recruits for the Bisons - one an NCAA de-commit defenceman and the other a Junior A star forward. This gives the Bisons eight new recruits, two goaltenders, four defencemen, and two forwards. KAYCEE COYLE...

July 13, 2025: NEWS FROM BANJOLAND Saskatown leads the CW in local press coverage. There were two stories in the Star-Phoenix, one dealing with recruiting and one with the Mutts' pending trip to Europe. The opinion in the recruitment story is that the Banjo-Mutts are breaking even on the...

July 10, 2025: CALGARY & REGINA UPLOAD RECRUITING STORIES The departure of Jadon Joseph was previously noted at Elite Prospects, and Go Dinos.com backs it up with a story. He played one year with Holy Trinity before moving to Bedrock U for three seasons. Links: ➤ Calgary: Jadon Joseph...

Page 3 SASKATCHEWAN HUSKIES Arrivals Bryan Thomson - G - Texas (AHL)/Idaho (ECHL) [prior Lethbridge (WHL)/ Melville (SJHL)] https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/403776/bryan-thomson AHL: 0 GP - 0-0-0 - .000 S% - 0.00 GAA ECHL: 60 GP - 31-18-5 - .906 S% - 3.07 GAA WHL: 117 GP - 59-42-5 -...

Part 2 MANITOBA BISONS Arrivals Matthew Keepr - G - Flin Flon (SJHL) [prior Swift Current, Kamloops, Regina (WHL) & Canmore (AJHL)] https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/573377/matthew-kieper SJHL: 27 GP - 23-2-2 - .935 S% - 1.80 GAA WHL: 77 GP - 38-25-4 - .881 S% - 3.69 GAA AJHL: 8 GP...

July 9, 2025 - CANADA WEST TRANSACTIONS SUMMARY I don't usually do a cross-conference summary of recruits until team roster pages are out, because you need to know who is returning as well as who is arriving and leaving to gauge a team's outlook. However, the change of the NCAA eligibility...

July 3, 2025 - OMAHA'S WILD KINGDOM TO FEATURE MONKEYS, BISONS SCORE LOIs The Usports LOI page has two new Bisons, both transfers from the NCAA. Sask and UBC also have stories posted, about off-ice developments. But the big story is the exodus from Alberta (and others) to Nebraska-Omaha (and...

June 28, 2025 - CANADA DAY WEEKEND NEWS WRAP-UP Since the schedules came out, only the Banjo-Mutts have posted something new. They have a new Junior A goaltender by the name of James Venne. He went to Sherwood Park of the BCHL after playing for the Melfort Mustangs (suddenly a rich...

June 24, 2025: C.W. SCHEDULE RELEASED The complete conference schedule has been released, and several teams included a number of exhibition games on their team pages. The Bisons have "extra" series against Regina and Calgary this year. There are many quirks with start times for the Bisons...

June 22, 2025: C.W. SCHEDULING FORMAT I have looked into the CW’s scheduling format. I really see no reason for the two division structure implemented in 2024-25. I delved into the CW’s regulations and here is what the regulations say: I put the figures into a chart, and here is the...

June 20, 2025 - SPARSE NEWS WEEK Although four Bison hockey recruits have been announced elsewhere (with three of those listed at Elite Prospects), the only post on GoBisons.ca is about yesterday's golf tournament fundraiser. The CW schedule usually comes out in the 20s of June, so next...

June 14, 2025 - BISON RECRUITING NEWS We still lack any news from GoBisons.ca, however Google notifications have yielded yet another recruit, and another story on Matthew Kieper (goaltender announced last week). The link on Kieper’s story is below. ZACH TURNER - D - Melfort Mustangs (SJHL)...

June 11, 2025 - FORMER BISONS LAND COACHING GIGS Former Bisons Josh Tripp and Zach Franko are having some success in the coaching field. Tripp played for the Bisons in 2019-20, before the aborted Covid season. He now coaches the Swan Valley Stampeders of the MJHL, and landed the job coaching...

June 8, 2025 - ANOTHER BISON RECRUIT LUCAS BRENNAN - F - Sherwood Park/Vernon (BCHL) The Bisons now have a forward, a defenceman, and a goaltender in their recruiting class. Lucas Brennan was committed to play for Bemidji State, going back to the 2022-23 season when he led the Selkirk...

June 5, 2025: Stories Around the CW Although GoBisons.ca has not posted anything thus far, we have a trickle of stories from around the league. The Evil Monkeys have 20 Alumni spread amongst different roles in the Greasers’ bid for a Stanley Cup. Included are the coach, Kris Knoblauch, and...