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...

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...

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...

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 Kinsmen Arena in Prince Albert will be without Predators lacrosse for the next month. The Junior B club is set to hit the road for final three weeks of their regular season schedule, which includes stops in Weyburn, Swift Current, Moose Jaw, and Winnipeg. Preds head coach Lucas Wells said he's most looking forward ...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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, ...

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...

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 ...

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...

The 2026 WHL Prospects Draft saw the next generation of stars picked one by one by the league's 23 member teams.Of those selected in the draft, include a handful of locals from the Prince Albert area, including members of this past season's provincial winning U15 AA Prince Albert Venice House Pirates team. Round 2, Pi...

The 2026 WHL Prospects Draft has officially come and gone, and the Prince Albert Raiders have added 10 new players into the organization this year. Director of Player Personnel Bruno Zarillo was in Prince Albert during the draft, and despite having to wait all the way until the third round for their first selection, he...

While the current Prince Albert Raiders left town Wednesday morning for their WHL Finals series against the Everett Silvertips, the next generation of Raiders are going to be selected over the course of the next two days and the WHL Bantam Draft. Day one will be quiet for the Raiders as the league will only conduct the...