CHIEFS NEWS

Last season on their run to the Western Hockey League championship series, the Spokane Chiefs featured a prolific offense – second in the WHL in goals scored with the top-ranked power play.

Monday was NHL roster cut-down day, and with that came the news that 19-year-old Berkly Catton made the opening night roster of the Seattle Kraken. The move carries ramifications for both the Kraken and the Spokane Chiefs.

The Spokane Chiefs 2025-26 season is underway and they are already exhibiting some of the traits that many expect to carry them back into the Western Hockey League playoffs and challenge to be one of the best teams in the league.

The 2024-25 version of the Spokane Chiefs finished just shy of reaching junior hockey’s Holy Grail – the Memorial Cup championships. Before the puck has even been dropped on the 2025-26 season, the Chiefs have already been hailed as one of the teams to beat in the upcoming season.

Tyler Johnson, a two-time Stanley Cup champion with the Tampa Bay Lightning, announced his retirement from the NHL after 13 seasons on Monday.

TORONTO – Spokane Chiefs captain and Seattle Kraken prospect Berkly Catton was named the Canadian Hockey League Sportsman of the Year during the 2025 CHL Awards ceremony on Friday.

The Spokane Chiefs are busy these days, vying for the Western Hockey League championship against Medicine Hat – the first time since 2008 they’ve reached the league title series.

There’s a popular meme floating around in which three identical Spider-Men are looking and pointing at each other. It was adapted from a comic that originated in the 1960s and has become a default template for online jokes calling out the similarities between just about everything and anything.

Spokane Chiefs coach Brad Lauer still doesn’t think his team has played its best hockey.

As division rivals, there’s no love lost between the Spokane Chiefs and the Portland Winterhawks. The two organizations are familiar postseason foes – facing each other 12 times in the postseason dating to 1986 – adding to the animosity.

It was a battle of attrition, but after a Game 6 double-overtime 5-4 win on Tuesday, the Spokane Chiefs outlasted the Victoria Royals to advance to the Western Hockey League Western Conference finals.