League Shakeup

The Prince Albert Timberjaks will have one less team to worry about this upcoming Prairie Junior Hockey League (PJHL) season.This after the Moosomin Steelhawks ceased operations in the league after just one season.The announcement was made on Monday across the team's social media accounts, saying the franchise is explo...

End of an era

"Hockey Night in Canada," a program that has been part of the national fabric for nearly 75 years on CBC television, will not return to the public broadcaster next season.A sub-licensing agreement between Rogers Communications and the CBC that allowed HNIC to air on the network expired at the end of the Stanl...

Keep on rolling

The Prince Albert Predators returned home from their out-of-province weekend trip with two more tallies in the win column. The Junior B lacrosse club made its inaugural trip to Winnipeg for a three-game series against the Blizzard, where they won their doubleheader on Saturday but dropped the one and only follow-up con...

2010 and 2011 born players

The 2026 Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) draft took place Tuesday afternoon and ended with a few players from Prince Albert earning a shot to play in the Junior A league.The draft held two rounds of picks for players born in 2011, and another six rounds for players born in 2010. Out of the 2011 crop, three mem...

Swimming

Prince Albert Sharks swimmer Max Zhao has earned international recognition and smashed several club records.The 16-year-old competed at the Mel Zajac Jr. International Swim Meet in Vancouver, B.C., which is regarded as one of Western Canada's premier swimming competitions.Competing in the Open Men's category against so...

Club Volleyball

Another season of Toppers' volleyball is officially in the books, and on Thursday night nearly 400 people packed into the cafetorium at Prince Albert Comprehensive High School for the awards and wind up party.Cody Lockhart, chair of the Toppers executive, stated there was some good success on the courts, but added he w...

Club Volleyball

The Prince Albert Smashing Bananas 18U club volleyball team has wrapped up its season. The team was one of 120 from across the country invited to the Volleyball Canada national tournament in Calgary over the weekend, where it finished 69th.Derek Vedress has completed his first year as head coach of the Smashing Bananas...

High Praise

Carlton Comprehensive High School in Prince Albert had seven of their own in Regina over the weekend for Football Saskatchewan's annual Senior Bowl. This year marked the 40th edition of the prestigious game which acts as a high school all-star game, bringing together the top graduating football players from across the ...

Year in Review: 4 of 4

What a season. Over the course of the last week, I have had a ton of friends, family, and fellow Raider fans asking me about the year and how it went, and I keep coming back to a quote that a fellow broadcaster said to me ahead of the WHL Finals: "There's 11 teams in either conference fighting to make the finals e...

Hey Batter Batter

Prince Albert is now home to two teams within the Sask. Premier Baseball League's (SPBL) U18 AA division. Following the late blasts of winter, the first pitch of the new season was officially thrown earlier this month with a pair of teams representing P.A., including the familiar Royals and the new guys in the Padres. ...

Year in review: 3 of 4

The three 20-year-olds part of the Prince Albert Raiders' 2025-26 season were often touted by other broadcasters around the league as 'the best group of 20s in the league.' All three of them had been here for four seasons, had their big game moments, and were beloved by the crowd at the Art Hauser Centre and by their t...

Professional Women's Hockey

OTTAWA - Abby Roque scored twice to lead the Montreal Victoire to their first Walter Cup trophy Wednesday night with a 4-0 victory over the Ottawa Charge in Game 4.The championship game featured two former players from Prince Albert, Sask. on opposing teams - Northern Bear alumni Kaitlin Willoughby with the Victoire ve...

Year in Review: 2 of 4

After three and a half seasons with the Raiders, Aiden Oiring's WHL career has come to an end. Originally picked 58th overall in the third round by the Winnipeg Ice, now the Wenatchee Wild, in a deal that saw the Raiders trade 19-year-old forward Carson Latimer to the Ice in exchange for a pair of third round picks and...

Friendly Foes

A couple of Prince Albert mothers are in Ottawa to cheer on their daughters as they battle against each other for the top prize in professional women's hockey. The PWHL's Walter Cup could be claimed on Wednesday night, as Montreal Victoire are just one win away from clinching their first championship. On that team is K...

Year in Review: 1 of 4

The time has come to say goodbye to a memorable 2025-26 Prince Albert Raiders season, and to a special group of players.With the WHL Finals now complete, the Raiders' season has come to an end, and the turnover has been quick. End-of-season gatherings have wrapped up, players have returned home, and lockers have been c...

Next Step: Head Coach

Legendary SJHL head coach and general manager Bob Beatty will be staying with the La Ronge Ice Wolves.Beatty, who coached in the SJHL for nearly 20 years, winning three league titles, two of which came in La Ronge, is now the club's full-time general manager."I've always had a soft spot for La Ronge, and they trea...

Silvertips win series 4-1

A season that made a lot of people proud in Prince Albert has come to an end. The 2026 WHL Finals saw the best team in the Eastern Conference Prince Albert Raiders make it through to take on the one team that had been a just a little more consistent all year long, the best in the Western Conference Everett Silvertips.G...

Cricket Season

The popularity of cricket continues to soar in the city as a new season looms on the horizon. The Prince Albert Cricket Association (PACA) now has four teams for the 2026 cricket year in the Prince Albert Giants, Jaguars, Phantoms, and Emperors. According to PACA Vice President Mohib Mohammed, the season was supposed...

Game 5

Having lost the last three games in a row - although just the third time all year they've done so - the Prince Albert Raiders have their backs against the wall heading into Game 5 Friday night in the Art Hauser Centre. The Raiders are down 3-1 and need a win to extend the series against the Everett Silvertips.Win or lo...

Back in the swing of things

Golf season is officially underway in Prince Albert. Cooke Municipal Golf Course welcomed their first golfers of the year on Thursday morning to kick off the 2026 season, which marked the latest start date for the course in its history, according to their Executive Professional Darcy Myers. "Mother Nature hasn't r...

For all the marbles

The crown jewel of Canadian senior Indigenous hockey is up for grabs this week as the Fred Sasakamoose "Chief Thunderstick" National Hockey Championship gets underway in Saskatoon on Thursday. 32 of the best teams from across Canada are competing in this year's men's tournament, while the women's tournament w...

Silvertips lead series 3-1

The Prince Albert Raiders had lost the last two games after opening the series with a win on the road, and they had a chance to bounce back and tie the series at 2-2. Instead, the Everett Silvertips got out to a lead, and a controversial decision from the officiating crew took the Raiders' tying goal away, and the Silv...

Redden reflects on 2019 run

It's been seven years since the Prince Albert Raiders have made it to the WHL Finals, and the current 2026 run is capturing a lot of that magic from the 2019 run. For former play-by-play voice of the Raiders Trevor Redden, who still calls Prince Albert home, he has been enjoying experiencing the atmosphere of the Art H...

For the crown

Two Prince Albert Northern Bear alumni are set to battle it out for the Professional Women's Hockey League's (PWHL) top prize. The Walter Cup is up for grabs and it's an all-Canadian matchup between Kaitlin Willoughby and the league-best Montreal Victoire, versus Brooke Hobson and the fourth-ranked Ottawa Charge. The ...

Silvertips lead series 2-1

After the Prince Albert Raiders returned home with a split from the first two games of the WHL Finals in Everett over the weekend, confidence and expectations were high in heading into Game 3 against the Silvertips. Even without Daxon Rudolph in the lineup due to a suspension, the teams traded the lead back and forth, ...

Lacrosse recap

A record long winning streak for the Prince Albert Predators has come to an end. The Predators hadn't lost a game in over three years, dating back to May 7, 2023, when they last lost 10-6 at the hands of Swift Current. That same Wolverines team were the ones to end P.A.'s lengthy winning streak on Saturday - 1,099 days...

Rudolph suspended, Cripps rookie of the week

The WHL Finals have officially arrived in Prince Albert as the Raiders get set for Game 3 against the Everett Silvertips. The Raiders have returned home with a split coming out of Everett, and now they are looking to take advantage of home ice and the Art Hauser Centre crowd for the next three games. The big news going...

Series tied 1-1

After a strong showing in Game 1 on the road, the Prince Albert Raiders were tasked with handing the Everett Silvertips their first back-to-back losses of the season. The Silvertips came out stronger in the first period, then fend off the Raiders comeback for two periods with two late goals for a 6-2 Silvertips win.Jus...

Raiders lead series 1-0

Two of the most dominant teams in the WHL. The two top teams at the end of the regular season. Two teams incredibly similarly built teams with different paths through the playoffs.Finally, the Prince Albert Raiders and the Everett Silvertips met for Game 1 of the WHL Finals on Friday night in Everett. After surrending ...

Playoff Preview

The WHL final is finally here, with the Prince Albert Raiders set to make their first appearance since winning the Ed Chynoweth Cup in 2019.Prince Albert opens the series Friday on the road against the Everett Silvertips, the WHL's top regular-season team. It marks the first time in these playoffs the Raiders enter a s...