The Spokane Chiefs' Western Hockey League regular season is down to six games in the next nine days. Friday's win over Portland should give them high hopes for postseason. Read story
The Spokane Chiefs officially qualified for the Western Hockey League postseason for the ninth consecutive season on Friday night. More encouraging to the Chiefs was the team they defeated to get there – the Portland Winterhawks, a possible first-round opponent.
If the Spokane Chiefs remain in their current position, as expected, they’ll open the Western Hockey League playoffs against either the Everett Silvertips or the Portland Winterhawks. If Spokane catches fire and the Seattle Thunderbirds fall apart, the Chiefs could improve their seeding and open the playoffs against either the Everett Silvertips or the Portland Winterhawks.
If the Spokane Chiefs remain in their current position, as expected, they’ll open the Western Hockey League playoffs against either the Everett Silvertips or the Portland Winterhawks.
Ten teams have clinched postseason berths as the Western Hockey League’s regular season winds down to its final 1 1/2 weeks, but the Spokane Chiefs must wait to become the 11th. The Kamloops Blazers postponed the Chiefs’ celebration by defeating the Prince George Cougars 7-4 Wednesday night in Kamloops, British Columbia.
The Morton-White Pass Timberwolves never made a false step during their two-year quest. The Timberwolves capped their journey Saturday night as Zach Walton scored 16 of his 34 points in the first quarter during a 72-57 victory over the Liberty Lancers in the State 2B boys title game at the Arena.
There’s a 1980s sense of nostalgia to this week’s State 2B boys basketball tournament. Match Burnham and his Liberty Lancers are at the heart of this trip down memory lane.
Liberty, faced with technical difficulties, managed to clear everything up just in time on Thursday afternoon. Big plays by Chase Burnham and Kyle King, and the inside presence of 6-foot-5 Clay Fleming and 6-8 Match Burnham, who combined for 36 points, allowed the Lancers (25-2) to hold back Life Christian Academy 56-51 in a State 2B boys quarterfinal at the Arena.
Savannah Chadwick refers to 80- and 90-year-olds as “kids” with no hint of irony. After all, what Chadwick and her family have accomplished is tantamount to turning back the clock for a few grateful octogenarians and nonagenarians.
Despite a five-week stretch, mostly in January, in which they lost 11 of 14 games, the Spokane Chiefs have reached the 62-game mark of their Western Hockey League schedule with as many wins (31) as regulation, overtime and shootout losses (31). Read story
The Spokane Chiefs play the Vancouver Giants twice per Western Hockey League season. Adam Helewka might want to petition the league to increase the number of Chiefs-Giants matchups.
The Spokane Chiefs had the best week possible, providing them a boost as the Western Hockey League's regular season enters its final three weeks. Read story
Spokane Chiefs rookie Curtis Miske produced two goals through his first 48 games of this Western Hockey League season. Miske more than doubled that output on Saturday with his first career WHL hat trick spurring the Chiefs to an 8-1 rout over the Tri-City Americans before 9,120 vocal fans at the Arena.
It’s difficult to measure how much the Spokane Chiefs have missed forward Calder Brooks. But try two goals and one assist, which is what Brooks accounted for on Wednesday as the Chiefs snapped a three-game losing streak with a 3-1 win over Western Hockey League U.S. Division-leading Everett at the Arena.
If the Western Conference playoff seedings don't change in the next 3 1/2 weeks, the Spokane Chiefs could do worse than a first-round matchup against the Everett Silvertips. Read story
Tom Hedemark could be out hunting with friends when a football play from 30 years before would cross his mind. “He had one of those minds,” said Dave Morton, whose life coincided with Hedemark’s on many levels.
With four weeks left in the Western Hockey League’s regular season, the Prince George Cougars appear to be the biggest threat to the Spokane Chiefs’ playoff hopes. Following Saturday night’s 4-2 victory over Moose Jaw, the Cougars (24-33-2-2, 52 points) have picked up points in six of their last eight games to close within six points of the Chiefs and five of Tri-City, the teams that would advance as wild cards if the season ended today.
