The annual early season showcase tournament for the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League is on the move
After taking place for the last four seasons in Warman, this year’s event will now take place at the Hamm Latrace Arena in Saskatoon on Sept. 24-28.
The format for the event remains the same with each of the 12 teams playing two games each.
The showcase will get underway at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 24 between the Nipawin Hawks and the Humboldt Broncos and will conclude at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 27 when the Yorkton Terriers will go up against the Melfort Mustangs.
The Battlefords North Stars will take to the ice at 4:15 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 24 against the Melville Millionaires.
They will also face the Estevan Bruins at 10 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 25, which will come two days after an evening contest between the two sides at the Civic Centre.
In other league news, the Weyburn Red Wings have been busy with three trades over the last two weeks.
On Thursday, they acquired forward Shea Kiryk from the Campbellton Tigers from the Maritime Hockey League, who had previously been traded from the La Ronge Ice Wolves earlier in the off-season.
In 36 games with the Ice Wolves and Kindersley Klippers last year, the 19-year-old from Saskatoon had two goals and four assists.
The Red Wings also acquired forwards Dawson Atamanchuk from the Broncos and Jeremy Velazquez from the Ice Wolves.
Atamanchuk, a 20-year-old from Humboldt, had six goals and eight assists in 37 games for his hometown team last season.
Velazquez, a 19-year-old from Chicago, Ill., had two goals and two assists in 17 games for the North Stars last year before he was dealt to the Ice Wolves in December, where he had three assists in 22 games.
The Broncos have also added another forward to their squad as they acquired 18-year-old Derek Patter from the Ice Wolves.
After playing in two games with the Olds Grizzlys in the Alberta Junior Hockey League, the Edmonton product had 13 goals and 10 assists in 54 games for the Ice Wolves in his first season of Junior A hockey.
Another trade that took place Thursday saw Daniel McKitrick move teams once again.
The 20-year-old forward, who won a RBC Cup with the Cobourg Cougars in May after being traded by the Humbolt Broncos in December, was traded to the Ice Wolves in July.
McKitrick is now the property of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League champion Portage Terriers as he was dealt for the rights to forward Taden Rattie.
The 19-year-old from Airdrie, Alta. and the younger brother of Edmonton Oilers forward Ty, had five points in 45 games last season for the Vancouver Giants of the Western Hockey League.
