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August 1, 2024: Recruitment Update Elite Prospects is showing more departures than arrivals across USports now. Mount Royal now has four recruits and two departures listed. The recruits are: Harmon Laser-Hume - G - Flin Flon (SJHL) Leith Olafson - D - Melfort (SJHL) Justin Lies - RW - Flin...

July 30, 2024: Bisons Announce Exhibition Schedule Sat Sep 14 Manitoba at Saskatchewan 7:00 CST/8:00 CDT Sun Sep 15 Manitoba at Regina 2:00 CST/3:00 CDT Sat Sep 21 Regina at Manitoba 2:00 CDT Fri Sep 27 Lakehead (OUA) at Manitoba 7:00 CDT Sat Sep 28 Lakehead (OUA) at Manitoba 2:00 CDT Thu...

July 26, 2024: News on Bison Coaching Staff, and More In an Instagram post, the Bisons have announced the return of assistant coach Kyle Prystupa. And they posted the schedule in the form of a picture. Links: ➤ Instagram: Kyle Prystupa Returns ➤ Instagram: Schedule Picture The...

July 21, 2024: Apetagon To France Forward Tony Apetagon has signed for a team called Evry-Viry in France's 3rd tier. He played 73 games across 5 seasons (including none in the covid season), and hada stats line of 17-11-28. He had the soft hands and scored some picture goals. I was always...

July 13, 2024: New Job for MacGillivray, Schedule Format Don McGillivray, who filled in as Bison coach for three years (2006-07 through 2008-09) whilst Mike Sirant was in Denmark on a sabbatical, has signed on as an assistant coach with the Victoria Royals in the WHL. He was the CW’s 2008...

July 4, 2024: Recruitment Update Elite Prospects has now added the recruits from Manitoba, Trinity, and UBC who were referenced earlier in this thread. Saskatchewan now has four names listed: Ethan Chadwick - G - Everett (WHL) Logan Bairos - D - Kamloops (WHL) Ethan Regnier - D/F -...

July 3, 2024: Some Teams Posted News Releases About Schedules Three of the nine CW teams accompanied the schedule release with a news story about the event. Those are linked. None of the three included their non-conference/exhibition games with their schedules. Links: ➤ Calgary: 2024-25...

July 2, 2024: CW Regular Season Schedule & Format The new schedule announcement is always nice. This year, though, we also find out about what the new format looks like on paper (or a computer screen). First, there is one division of four teams, and one of five. The top three in each make...

June 22, 2024: T-irds Recruit Two D-men The T-irds announced two new recruits for their blueline. This news was not on the Elite Prospects transactions list, nor on the USports LOI. The players are Alex Serraglio (Tri-City Americans WHL, 68 GP 2-16-18) and Nick Ardanaz (RPI NCAA, 38 GP 1-5-6...

June 21, 2024: News Smattering The Bisons have their official announcement on Eric Alarie, whose recruitment was addressed above in this thread. The story quotes Coach Gordon Burnett gushing over this recruit. Their paths previously crossed with the Moose Jaw Warriors in the WHL. Links: ➤...

June 18, 2024: Monkeys, Ravens Going to Belfast The Belfast Giants of the EIHL are hosting the Evil Monkeys and Cartoon U for a 3-way exhibition series. The schedule is: Aug 30 Belfast v Carleton Aug 31 Alberta v Carleton Sept 1 Belfast v Alberta The Bisons played the Giants twice each...

June 13, 2024: Bisons Add to Bumper Crop The Bisons have a 7th new recruit, and we have stories from Portage la Prairie, Flin Flon, and Saskatown. ERIC ALARIE - LW/C - Moose Jaw & Seattle (WHL), Adirondack (ECHL) This commitment was found on the LOI Registry. It is not yet on Elite...

June 7, 2024: Recruiting Updates Nothing new from the Bisons, in fact the only new story posted is at Alberta. The Elite Prospects pages have been updated with new recurits listed for Regina, Mount Royal, and UBC. The UBC recruit is Carson Latimer, previously noted in this thread sourced to...

June 3, 2024: Sirant to Glasgow Former Bison coach Mike Sirant is off to Scotland to be an assistant coach for the Glasgow Clan in the EIHL. The Bisons played them once-upon-a-time, even back when they were called the Braehead Clan. Sirant coached over there before joining the Bisons...

June 1, 2024: News Has Slowed As we enter a new month, the early off-season activity from May has slowed, albeit to somewhat normal levels for this time of year. Regarding recruitment, the main sources are Elite Prospects and the USports Letters of Intent page. At Elite Prospects there was a...

May 28, 2024: More Stories Posted Across the CW The Bisons have issued their press release on the commitment of goaltender Braden Holt. In the last week I have seen no new announcements at Elite Prospects and the Letter of Intent page has not been updated since May 21, 2024. (Not every...

May 20, 2024: Updating News with a Trickle of Stories There are not a lot of newer postings around the CW. The Bisons have posted a story about the recruitment of Dawson Pasternak (announced above). Coach Burnett sings his praises and they emphasize th 72 points in 62 WHL games. Links: ➤...

May 15, 2024: Another Pair of WHL Recruits One more name is on the LOI Registry and at Elite Prospects, while one more is LOI only for now. Neither has a story at GoBisons.ca right now. DAWSON PASTERNAK - F - Victoria (WHL) Here we have another small forward at 5'9" and 152 lbs. But he...

May 9, 2024: Teams Are Posting Stories Although some teams have posted recruitment announcements (linked below) Elite Prospects has the most consistent early news across websites. Here are the links for all teams (some have yet to add a link for 2024-25.). Links: ➤ Elite Prospects: USports...

May 4, 2024: One More WHL Recruit I checked the LOI Registry and found that Bison Hockey has four names, the three from the prior post and one more. Here's the details. SKYLER BRUCE - RW - Vancouver/Edmonton (WHL) Bruce is 5' 10" and 168 lbs with a track record of goal-scoring prowess. I...