It's a difficult part of the WHL season, early to mid fall when overage, or 20-year-old players, have to fight for one of only 3 such roster spots on a team.
Ah, the bright lights of Las Vegas! And one of the players who could be hitting the ice with the new NHL expansion Golden Knights is former Tri-City Americans Defenseman Dhylan Coghlan.
There have been a lot of Tri-City Americans who've gone on to the NHL, and many have lasted for years: Olaf Kolzig, Stu Barnes, Cary Price, Brian Boucher, Scott Gomez, Eric Comrie and the latest, Brandon Carlo. But this season a record number of Americans are ranked NHL prospects.
Driving over the Cascades is a FAR better prospect for the opening round of the 2016-17 WHL Playoffs than taking a leisurely 15-hour bus ride to Prince George in Canada. Thanks to their thrilling overtime comeback victory over Everett Sunday night, the Americans did just that.
The Tri-City Americans have always been creative in thinking up crazy fun stunts during intermissions at the hockey games. Saturday night was no different.
A player who is considered a definite top 15 NHL Draft Prospect will likely miss the rest of the Tri-City Americans season, according to Governor-General Manager Bob Tory.
After the Tri-City Americans steamrolled through their Eastern Division road trip with perhaps their best record ever for that bi-annual monumental journey, we looked at the Western and Canadian Hockey League standings. The WHL is one of three leagues that make up the CHL, along with the Ontario and Quebec Major Junior Leagues.
It was announced Thursday afternoon that Americans goaltender Nicholas Sanders is headed to Prince Albert, while the Am's will receive a 20-year-old net minder in return. (image from information released by Americans-Doug Love photo).