A number of hockey games are taking place in Winnipeg this week in preparation for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
The University of Manitoba Bison women’s hockey team is set to take on Switzerland’s national women’s team today at 4:30 p.m. at the Max Bell Centre. The Swiss team is in town to play a [...]

The Manitoba Moose will take to the ice against 8-year-old hockey players from Fort Garry on February 8.
The Fort Garry Community Centre won the right to host the outdoor practice after selling the second most amount of tickets this season. It was all part of the annual Manitoba Moose Community Jersey Program.
Following the team’s game [...]

After getting the boot from Citytv back in July, along with the very lovely Terri Apostle, Jimmy Mac has been making the rounds as a standup comedian. But even that came to a halt last summer as Rumor’s Comedy Club shut down for several months due to a flood.
Since then, Jimmy has been getting the [...]

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The Manitoba Moose will be serving up pancakes Sunday morning as part of their second annual Community Pancake Breakfast. The fluffy cakes will be available at East St. Paul Community Centre (264 Hoddinott Road) from 9-11 a.m.
Players and coaches will be on hand to work the griddle, as well as to sign [...]

Training camp for the Manitoba Moose started last weekend and to help get back into the swing of things, the team held a pre-season scrimmage on Monday afternoon.
Hopefully they do exactly what they did last year, but capture the Calder Cup this time. You can do it, boys!
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Jim Toth of Shaw TV will be the new colour analyst for Moose Hockey on CJOB 68, the station announced Friday.
Toth will sit alongside Brian Munz for all home game broadcasts, as well as select Monday night shows. Toth replaces Chris Nielsen who moved to Calgary this summer to pursue a career in medicine.
Toth will [...]

Manitoba Moose fans gathered in the courtyard of Canwest Place on Friday evening to watch Game 6 of the Calder Cup final on the giant screen. Unfortunately, all the fan support in the world couldn’t seal the deal for our hometown team as the Hershey Bears took the series 4-1.

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Forget everything you ever heard about a ‘black-out’ at a Manitoba Moose game. The Winnipeg Free Press has revisited their original idea of encouraging fans to wear black and is now pushing for a white-out at tonight’s game against the Hershey Bears. The Freep’s John White even referred to himself as a dumba$$ for suggesting [...]

CURVE 94.3 is really stickin’ it to the Hershey Bears — this time by chopping off a limb from its plush mascot, Coco. “The Show with Sarah and Jay” will take another limb off each time the Manitoba Moose secure a win. On Wednesday morning the gang used rusty hedge trimmers. Lovely.
Jay says they have [...]

Wheeler from the “Wheeler and Hal” morning show on Power 97 was in Hershey, PA this week covering the Calder Cup final. While the Manitoba Moose were busy practicing, he was exploring Hershey, which is also famously known for being the home to Hershey’s Chocolate.
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The Manitoba Moose will take on the Hershey Bears (spit) this weekend in Games 3 and 4 of the Calder Cup final. The games are in Hershey, so Moose fans will not be dealt the trouble of having figure out whether to wear white or black again.
The games will be broadcast on both Shaw (channel [...]

Tuesday morning’s “Charity Bear Shred” raised $2,000 for the Manitoba Moose Yearling Foundation.
Local radio station CURVE 94.3 put on the two-hour event in front of their studio on Pembina Highway to rally support behind the Moose before they took on the Hershey Bears last night. By the way, the Moose won 3-1, in case you [...]