Hockey, Heritage And Community On Ice
Get ready for the 45th Annual Kilrich Yukon Native Hockey Tournament Since its launch in 1977, the Yukon Native Hockey Tournament has grown from a […]
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Just One Of The Guys, Part 2
Being the only female in the league results in some interesting questions. Bowden said she doesn’t have a relationship within the league.
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Just One Of The Guys, Part 1
Stacey Bowden is the first and only female goalie in the Whitehorse Oldtimers Hockey League (WOHL). She spent the past season playing…
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Hockey Fever!
“You look a little pale,” I tell Heinz, our sports writer, after I greet him.
“But I am feeling better, for sure,” he yells.
The Bookshelf: When Dawson Made Hockey History
The Dawson Challengers had a dream to contest for the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup (better known as the Stanley Cup.
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Celebrate our local hockey team’s good deeds
The local hockey team, led by coach Michael Nemeth, is a semi finalist in the nationwide Chevrolet Good Deeds Cup Competition this year.
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Coy Cup Comes to the Yukon
“Get ready for some high paced hockey,” says Whitehorse Huskies Coach Michael Tuton. “The top AA teams of B.C. and the Yukon are battling it
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Looking Back on 40 Years of Team Spirit
When Joe Jack was around 24 years old he and a group of friends thought it would be a good idea to start a First Nations hockey team…
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What’s fake is real
“I found it ironic that in Toronto, I could play hockey year round” said Dowhal, but in Dawson “hockey season runs from December to March,”
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Never Too Young To Be An Old Timer
You don’t have to be a real old timer to play Oldtimers Hockey in Dawson City. Anyone from 35 years and up can play on
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The Secret to Russian Hockey Power
Wayne Gretzky once stated that Viacheslav Fetisov was the greatest defenseman he had ever played against. Fetisov (nicknamed Slava) was known to be the “Bobby
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Goals and dreams
Thirteen-year-old Piper Allen, of Watson Lake, and Mike Smith, Olympic-gold-medal-winning goalie and bonafide NHLer with the Arizona Coyotes, have two things in common: they love
Ryan Dorward’s Tales of Absurdity
Beer hockey is not a sport for the faint of heart. Although it substitutes much of the grace, skill, and teamwork of our nation’s icy
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Remembering Sandi Gleason
A friend of Jeanie Dendys’s 15-year-old son told Dendys he gets more excited for the native hockey tournament than he does for the Canada Games.
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Didee & Didoo – Poem “Stanley Cup Season”
STANLEY CUP SEASON When it’s Stanley cup season It’s almost like treason. Dougie never misses a playoff and his TV is never off. He turns
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My Obviously Simple Minded Idea to Reduce Cheap Shots in Hockey
On March 8, 2004, in a game between the Colorado Avalanche and the Vancouver Canucks, Todd Bertuzzi punched Steve Moore from behind and then drove
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Doing what it takes: Haines Junction’s very own Gretzky and Kurri
Passion, skill and dedication are the main qualities Coach Joe Martin looks for on his Whitehorse Mustangs Midget Rep hockey team. No players may personify
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Yukon Teens Connect with the Past
Teens are not known for their love of history, but at least one Yukon museum is trying to change that. The MacBride Museum of Yukon
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The Cold, Beautiful Game
“Did you win or lose?” Trudging up the slope to the parking area, the girl with her skates slung over one shoulder stopped to ponder
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A Tinsmith Who Creates Community
Rick Griffiths just returned from a vacation in Saskatchewan where he visited many old friends. “There wasn’t a place I visited where I wasn’t given
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Send Theo to the Hall
Growing up on the mean streets of Whitehorse’s Hillcrest subdivision, one of my favourite post-dinner, pre-bedtime activities was “taking shots”. Stephen Doyle and I would
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Didee & Didoo – Poem “Goaltender (Josh)”
If you’re a goaltender you can’t be tender. The puck will go past if your reflex is not fast. You have to flop to make
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Looking Back: The most interesting man in the world
Every now and then, a figure emerges out of the shadows of history with so much success and so many adventures that you swear they
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Didee & Didoo – Poem “Don Cherry”
Don Cherry His name is Don Cherry an’ he’s named after a berry. His nickname is Grapes he has suits of all colours an’ shapes.
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David Francey No Regrets for a Late Bloomer
The phone line to the west coast of Ireland splutters and squawks before finally going dead. For the few short minutes that conversation is possible,
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Lace up and Learn
“I started playing hockey when I was four years old, because I wanted to keep up with my older brother,” says Vanessa Bogaert. Twenty three
Promoting Canada’s National Sport
Terry Mosdale wants to see the sport of lacrosse take root and grow in the Yukon. The learning facilitator and officiating clinician with the Canadian
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