In 1971, Clark Gillies joined the Regina Pats and led his team to the Memorial Cup championship in 1974. Clark’s 12 year career with the New York Islanders included 4 consecutive Stanley Cups from 1980 to 1983, and his selection Read more →
After moving to Saskatoon from Ontario when he was 15 years old, Norman “Heck” Fowler quickly made himself known, contributing to sport at both the amateur and professional levels for forty years. Fowler played baseball, soccer and lacrosse, but it Read more →
Born in Dysart and raised in Regina, Fern Flaman played with a variety of Regina minor hockey teams until 1943 when the Boston Olympics, a Boston Bruins’ farm team, lured him into the United States. With Flaman’s help, the Olympics Read more →
As a young man growing up in Regina, Saskatchewan, Dunc Fisher was a natural athlete. He was a competitive swimmer, quarterback of the Balfour Technical School football team, a runner on the track team, and shortstop on the baseball team. Read more →
Bernie Federko first displayed his hockey skills in his hometown of Foam Lake. Following some minor league play with the Foam Lake Flyers, he moved on to an outstanding junior career with the Saskatoon Blades of the Western Hockey League. Read more →
A product of Stittsville, Ontario Ken Doraty moved to Saskatchewan in his youth where he excelled as a hockey player. In 1925, Ken Doraty played with Western Canada’s first Memorial Cup winners, the Regina Pats. The following year Doraty turned Read more →
Samuel “Rusty” Crawford was billed as one of the greatest hockey players of his time. During a career of over 21 seasons in professional hockey, Rusty never missed a game due to an injury. He was a member of 3 Read more →
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan heralded the arrival of a future hall of famer in November of 1924. Bower played on frozen ponds with catalogues and mattresses for body protection. He started in the nets at eight years of age. Bower’s junior Read more →
Frank “Buzz” Boll, known as the “Western Tumbleweed”, was regarded as one of the fastest skaters in the National Hockey League (NHL) during his era. Boll started off his hockey career with the Weyburn Wanderers in the 1928-29 season. In Read more →
Red played his minor hockey in Regina and showed great promise with the Regina Pat Midgets who were two-time Provincial Midget Champions. Berenson was the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League’s Rookie of Year with the Regina Pat Juniors in the 1956-57 Read more →
Max Bentley followed his older brothers footsteps and had a lot of success in Saskatchewan as a talented hockey player. As a teenager he joined the well-known Saskatoon Wesley’s Junior Hockey Team for the 1935-36 season. Max moved on to Read more →
Doug Bentley played all over Saskatchewan during the start of his hockey career but began in his hometown, on the Delisle Tigers. Soon after that he moved on to play on the Saskatoon Wesley Juniors. Doug then played in Regina Read more →
Dave Balon was born in Wakaw and played his minor hockey and baseball for the local teams. Junior hockey took him to Prince Albert where he played two years with the Junior Mintos. He turned pro at the ripe old Read more →
Although Murray Balfour was born in Manitoba, it was in Regina where he first became involved in hockey. Like so many other Regina residents, Balfour got his start with the Regina Pats organization playing with the Pat bantams in 1949. Read more →
William “Bill” Hicke excelled at many sports in his youth, but it was hockey that would consume the young man and steer his life to the big leagues. Bill’s talent allowed him to play for the Regina Pat midgets and Read more →