For the third straight year, Prince Albert Raiders Head Coach Ryan McDonald is set to represent Canada. For the last two seasons, he has won gold, first as an assistant coach, then as head coach for Team Canada at the U17 World Hockey Challenge. Now he's going to be an assistant coach at the prestigious Hlinka-Gretzky ...

It's been a busy week for Bennett Acorn. The 20-year-old is the Prince Albert Raiders assistant equipment manager and a defenceman for the Prince Albert Predators lacrosse team. This past weekend, Acorn was a part of the fourth straight Prairie Gold Lacrosse League championship win for the Predators. Just days before ...

It has been a busy stretch for the WHL, with eight players selected in the first round of the NHL Draft, the European Draft taking place and the 2026-27 schedule released.Behind the scenes, the league also wrapped up its annual general meeting, where governors discussed NCAA player retention, potential rule changes, sc...

Only two days in, and it's already been a busy week in the Western Hockey League (WHL).Tuesday saw the league first host the 2026 European Draft, where the Raiders made one selection. The schedule for the season was also released, and rule changes for the upcoming season were announced. In the European Draft, the Raide...

The Prince Albert Raiders will have a strong presence at NHL development camps this week, with 13 current and former players earning invitations after the NHL Draft.The group includes the three Raiders selected in last weekend's draft, which was the club's most NHL draft picks in a single year since 2004.Defenceman Dax...

The 2026 NHL Draft is officially, and three Prince Albert Raiders heard their names called throughout the weekend. Daxon Rudolph was taken fourth overall, Michal Orsulak was selected 79th overall in the third round, and Jonah Sivertson was selected 113th overall in the fourth round.Of note, Orsulak was one of 32 goalte...

The 2026 NHL Draft is set for this weekend with Round 1 taking place on Friday, and the rest of the draft taking place on Saturday.With seven players on the last NHL Central Scouting list, the Prince Albert Raiders are set up to potentially have one of their best draft years of all time. It's an exciting time for Raid...

The WHL has released it's full schedule for preseason games that all starts off on August 30. For the Prince Albert Raiders, they have a total five preseason games again this year, three of which are against the Saskatoon Blades. Continuing the tradition that's been going since the 2012 preseason, the Raiders and Blade...

One of the fan favourites from the Prince Albert Raiders this season will not be returning to the Green and Gold. Alternate captain and top prospect in the upcoming NHL Draft, Daxon Rudolph, announced via his Instagram that he has played his final game in Hockey Town North, as he has committed to the University of Denv...

The most important person on the team is everyone else. That's the quote attributed to a staple of the Prince Albert sporting community, Mark Odnokon, during his funeral Sunday afternoon. News of his passing was made public last week.Friends, family, former teammates, and student athletes gathered to share stories from...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

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 ...