A month ago, the Everett Silvertips raised their championship banners to the rafters at Angel of the Winds Arena ahead of the season opener against Portland. The night was a culmination of the prior season, but also a celebration of a moment and a team that was years...
Often compared to collegiate sports, junior hockey fandom is rooted in geography and fueled by a tribal-like passion that connects communities to their teams. It’s a fascinating form of hockey to follow. A league featuring some of the best 16- to 21-year-old players...
You would have been hard-pressed to find Everett Silvertips head coach Steve Hamilton saying one bad thing about his team’s performance following a Game 1 loss in the WHL Finals at the hands of the Prince Albert Raiders. Losing a series-opening contest can be a big...
We have ourselves a series. After falling 4-2 to the Prince Albert Raiders in Game 1 of the WHL Finals on Friday night, the Everett Silvertips bounced back in a huge way Saturday, beating the Raiders 6-2 to tie the series at one game apiece. It wasn’t the start to the...
Channeling Glinda the Good to describe the aesthetics of the upcoming WHL Finals between the Everett Silvertips and Prince Albert Raiders: "It’s just— You’re green!" This season has been historic on all fronts for the Everett Silvertips. Regular-season champions for...
“Not again.” That was the feeling among practically all Everett Silvertips fans when their second-round opponent, the Kelowna Rockets, tied Game 5 late in regulation on Friday. It was only two nights prior in Game 4 when the Rockets came back from a 3-0 deficit, tying...
The Everett Silvertips cruised through the first round of the Western Hockey League playoffs, defeating the Portland Winterhawks in four games. They have had their sights set on the Memorial Cup in Kelowna since the puck dropped on the 2025-26 season. But now, in...
Sept. 22, 2018. That was the last time the Everett Silvertips hoisted a green-colored banner, their 2017-18 Western Conference championship banner to be specific, to the rafters at then-Xfinity (now Angel of the Winds) Arena in downtown Everett. Despite three...
When the Seattle Kraken drafted Julius Miettinen No. 40 overall in the 2024 NHL Draft, they selected him for his size and his ability to impose himself in the offensive zone. Though he plays with a lot of intensity on the ice, off the ice he couldn’t be further from...
We’re about a week away from lighting the torch in Milan for the Winter Olympics, to which NHL and PWHL players will be making the voyage over the Atlantic Ocean to play in the tournament, which means there will be few games locally for most of February. For the...
The ice is down, training camps are underway, and anticipation is building across the Western Hockey League. With the addition of the Penticton Vees, 23 teams now enter the 2025–26 season with hope, hunger, and high expectations. Nowhere is that more evident than in...
The Kraken remain captain-less (for now), along with Utah, as one of the two remaining NHL teams without a full-time captain in place. But just because there is no captain at the moment doesn’t mean there aren’t leaders beginning to blossom elsewhere within the...
