choyt3 Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Kaip to wear Fighting Sioux colors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superman0099 Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Kaip to wear Fighting Sioux colors. Good News Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sioux fan in phoenix Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 And he's also coming to UND for academic reasons Welcome to the Sioux family, Rylan! Wonder what other schools were interested in him...looks like we have until the 19th (end of early signing period) to see who else comes aboard. Does anyone know the other times/dates a player is allowed to sign? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoteauRinkRat Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Really great news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goon Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Weyburn, who else from UND has come from Weyburn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoteauRinkRat Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Weyburn, who else from UND has come from Weyburn. Wes Dorey? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mksioux Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Weyburn, who else from UND has come from Weyburn. Hockey's Future lists his hometown as Wilcox, SK...which is the same hometown as Jeff and Jason Ulmer I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sicatoka Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Wilcox, SK is where Athol Murray College of Notre Dame (home of the Hounds) resides. Jeff and Jason's dad is a coach there, hence, it's their hometown. It appears to be Kaip's as well. Weyburn was mentioned because of this: "Weyburn defenseman Greg Park has also taken advantage of the early signing period to join Providence for next season." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sprig Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Sic is right. Wilcox is a very small town, that is little more Athol Murray (Notre Dame) itself, which has been home to some very good junior teams in the SJHL. The town is about 40 miles west of Weyburn (home of SJHL's red wings, and yes, Wes Dorey). Several of Athol Murray's younger teams (bantams) come across the line for tourneys in NWND. Many great Sioux players have gone through Notre Dame, including the highly touted class in the early 80's that included James Patrick, Gord Sherven, Jim Archibald, Troy Murray??, and I'm forgetting a couple others. Curtis Joseph also played on the early 80's Notre DAme team (Wendal Clark also was there). Most, if not all, of these players listed from Wilcox moved there to go to school and play hockey, and are actually from various areas across Canada and the US. Should mention that the academics at Notre Dame come first, as many a player has left or been suspended from the team for failure to keep up with their work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoteauRinkRat Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Sic is right. Wilcox is a very small town, that is little more Athol Murray (Notre Dame) itself, which has been home to some very good junior teams in the SJHL. The town is about 40 miles west of Weyburn (home of SJHL's red wings, and yes, Wes Dorey). Several of Athol Murray's younger teams (bantams) come across the line for tourney's in NWND. Many great Sioux players have gone through Notre Dame, including the highly touted class in the early 80's that included James Patrick, Gord Sherven, Jim Archibald, Troy Murray??, and I'm forgetting a couple others. Curtis Joseph also played on the early 80's Notre DAme team (Wendal Clark also was there). Most, if not all, of these players listed from Wilcox moved there to go to school and play hockey, and are actually from various areas across Canada and the US. wilcox is really a hole in the wall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sprig Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 wilcox is really a hole in the wall Very typical (except for the church run high school) of may towns across Saskatchewan (and North Dakota, for that matter). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redwing77 Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Ok, I have seen Dorey play sparingly, but I never knew he drew shame upon him from the fans. Can anyone explain this idea to me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoteauRinkRat Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Ok, I have seen Dorey play sparingly, but I never knew he drew shame upon him from the fans. Can anyone explain this idea to me? It has been a while, but I can't remember what in particular he did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canuck Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Wes didn't necessarily do anything wrong in particular. What I think they're getting at would be his (in many people's eyes) disappointing numbers while at UND. Wes came to UND as a MUCH-hyped recruit out of juniors in Weyburn after scoring approximately 180 points (counting regular season and playoffs) and being named SJHL MVP. If I remember correctly, early in the fall of Dorey's freshman year (1997-98), Blais was predicting big things from a line of Dorey, Jason Blake and Lee Goren, who was also expected to have an immediate impact. As it was, Wes didn't have that bad of a freshman year - 11 goals and 22 points in 33 games. But for whatever reason, he was in and out of Blais' doghouse the final three years and never was really to build on that solid rookie season. He spent a lot of the time either on the third or fourth line or as a healthy scratch. It was too bad, really, because had pretty good skill and was feisty when he wanted to be. The difference between Wes and someone like Lee, from where I sit, was Lee got a chance to re-establish himself after his first year while Wes slowly became somewhat of an afterthought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kr Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Not that any of this matters, because everyone has stuff go on in their life which can be have an adverse affect ..... but I had heard that Wes' mother passed away while he was at UND, or maybe something else which limited his summer off season and he came back in not the best shape ..... He has been one of my favorite players thru the years, regardless of "living" up to potential or not .... one of my best memories ever of Sioux hockey is his tying goal at the 19:23 mark in the 3rd period in the 2001 NC game against BC, for all the ups and downs of his career, in his final game as a Sioux Blais had him out there for the most important shift of that game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canuck Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Good point about that championship game. It's true about his mother passing away; I believe that happened during the summer prior to his senior season. I was always a fan as well and thought he never quite got a fair shake after his senior season, and who knows how differently his pro career would've turned out if things had gone differently while he was here. Although I was already living here when he arrived as a freshman, I am from Saskatchewan and was still following the SJHL fairly closely at the time and he was as close to a household name around the region as any junior player could be. He got lots of ink and at the time was widely considered to be an NHL-calibre prospect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagies Posted November 19, 2003 Share Posted November 19, 2003 I always pulled for Wes because he was a speedy high energy guy on the ice. My impression of him (remember this comes from someone who knows little about the game) was that he didn't adjust well to the college game. It seemed to me he often tried the fancy stickhandling that might have got him by in juniors but NEVER got him anywhere in D1. That, and Wes often got frustrated on the ice and took slashing type penalties at bad times. Wes had a decent freshman year but I think really went downhill his sophomore year. I think he had a better junior year and respectable senior year IMO, but not to the level of expectations based on the hype about him as a recruit. I do think in his sophomore year Wes may have been in the dog house but by the end of his junior year at least it seemed from my perspective that he was being counted on as a contributor, and not an afterthought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoteauRinkRat Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 http://fightingsioux.com/sports/mhockey/re...RELEASE_ID=2427 Here is the official Fighting Sioux hockey press release announcing the signings of Radke, Zajac, and Kaip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sioux7 Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 Oh Yea baby. Reloading already. Is Beaverson in on this class as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSiouxFan Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 Wonder why Duncan didn't sign? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goon Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 Wonder why Duncan didn't sign? I have been told that Incoming recruits don't always sign LOI. But still show up anyways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goon Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 http://fightingsioux.com/sports/mhockey/re...RELEASE_ID=2427 Here is the official Fighting Sioux hockey press release announcing the signings of Radke, Zajac, and Kaip. Radke, 5-11 and 200 pounds, is playing this season for the Grande Prairie Storm of the Alberta Junior Hockey League. He was the Storm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoggy Posted November 26, 2003 Share Posted November 26, 2003 They can get big as long as we keep our speed. Speed has set us apart from other schools during the Dean era. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redwing77 Posted November 26, 2003 Share Posted November 26, 2003 Oh Yea baby. Reloading already. Is Beaverson in on this class as well? Yes, Beaverson is in this class. He is not listed because he signed his letter of intent a year ago. Same as Lammy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goon Posted November 26, 2003 Share Posted November 26, 2003 Yes, Beaverson is in this class. He is not listed because he signed his letter of intent a year ago. Same as Lammy So who is signed and not signed. I assume Beaverson, Lammy Radke Kaip Zajac Anyone else beside no having one on Ducan yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.