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The Winnipeg Ice have gone local and signed forward Logan Danis to the roster.
Danis, 17, played 35 regular-season games with RHA Prep of the Canadian Sport School Hockey League (CSSHL) during the 2018-2019 season. In those games, he recorded 14 goals and added 23 assists for 37 points. He also added three goals and five points in three playoff games.
The Winnipeg Ice will have a strong prairie rivalry with the Brandon Wheat Kings to open the team’s inaugural 2019-20 WHL season.
The league on Wednesday revealed the team’s 68-game schedule, pitting the two teams against each other 10 times, beginning September 20 in the Wheat City.
The Winnipeg Ice has signed forward Matthew Savoie, their first overall selection in the 2019 WHL Bantam Draft.
Savoie played in 31 regular season games with the Northern Alberta X-Treme Prep of the Canadian Sport School Hockey League (CSSHL) during the 2018-2019 season. He recorded 31 goals and added 40 assists for 71 points during that time.
The Winnipeg Ice will open their pre-season schedule with two games against their soon-to-be rivals, the Brandon Wheat Kings, on September 6-7.
The WHL team relocated from Cranbrook, B.C. after last season and will play their first game at Westoba Place in Brandon on the 6th, followed by in Portage la Prairie at Stride Place on the 7th.
Winnipeg hockey fans eager to see the WHL’s Winnipeg Ice play in the city next season are quickly securing their spots to purchase season tickets.
The franchise revealed Thursday that only 100 season seats remain. Deposits opened to the public on January 30 — and more than 1,000 seats were secured in just 24 hours.
By Kyle Cicerella, The Canadian Press
TORONTO — Greg Fettes has done his research and believes major junior hockey can work in Winnipeg, even with no presence in the Western Hockey League for over three decades and two professional teams already feeding the city.
“We spent a lot of time and money understanding the market here in Winnipeg and what it would be able to sustain and what we need to do to be successful and we came away feeling very confident in the plan we have moving forward,” Fettes said from Winnipeg in a phone interview.
WINNIPEG — The owners of the Western Hockey League’s Kootenay Ice has made it official — they’re moving the team to Winnipeg.
During a news conference, Tuesday in Cranbrook, B.C., the league and team’s owners announced the Ice would make the move in time for the 2019-20 WHL regular season.
WINNIPEG — The Western Hockey League’s Kootenay Ice are expected to relocate to the city after an official announcement scheduled for Tuesday.
50 Below Sports + Entertainment chair and governor Greg Fettes, Ice president and general manager Matt Cockell and WHL Commissioner Ron Robison will make the announcement at the future site of The RINK in Oak Bluff. Fettes is the founder and CEO of Winnipeg-based 24-7 InTouch.
