THN On The 'Dub': WHL Player of the Week Ryder Ritchie Joins the Show
Carol Schram and Adam Kierszenblat chat with WHL player of the week Ryder Ritchie from the Prince Albert Raiders, preview the WHL Cup, announce a new WHL site and more.
On this episode of The Hockey News On The 'Dub' Podcast with Carol Schram and Adam Kierszenblat:
- Fresh off seven points in three games and WHL Player of the Week honors, Ryder Ritchie joins the show to talk about his hot start to the season, moving around Europe while his dad was playing hockey, and winning gold with Team Canada at the 2023 Hlinka Gretzky Cup.
- Adam also announces the launch of the new WHL league site at TheHockeyNews.com/WHL.
- In headlines, the Wenatchee Wild have hired a new head coach, Roy Sommer, as they prepare to head home from a long road trip.
- The WHL Cup runs this Wednesday through Sunday in Red Deer and features the best 2008-born prospects in Western Canada going head-to-head as they represent their provinces.
- Shaun Clouston of the Kamloops Blazers earns his first assistant-coach role at the U-20 level for the upcoming World Junior Championship in Sweden, and the speculation begins about which WHLers could crack that roster.
- Our three stars of the week feature a red-hot right winger and two stingy stoppers in net, and the Los Angeles Kings are our NHL team of the week.
- Adam wants to see how Medicine Hat holds up at the end of a long road trip in Prince George in our WHL game of the weekend, and we celebrate a Vancouver Giants beatdown from 2009 back at the Pacific Coliseum on this week in WHL history.
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