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PHSF Honours Four With Ace Award

OKOTOKS, AB (March 30, 2026) — Four men who combined have spent more than 100 years working for NHL teams will share in the Ace Award when the non-profit Professional Hockey Scouts Foundation holds its annual Wall of Honour induction dinner in Okotoks on Aug. 28. Lorne Davis, Del Wilson, Ted Hampson and Marshall Johnston …

Foundation salutes Delorme with Two Glens’ Award

OKOTOKS, Alta. (February 3, 2026) — Ron Delorme, a former NHL player who has spent 40 years scouting with the NHL’s Vancouver Canucks, is the 2026 recipient of the Two Glens’ Honourarium from the non-profit Western Canada Professional Hockey Scouts Foundation. The Foundation made the announcement today. Delorme, 70, will be honoured at the Foundation’s …

WCPHSF honours Lazaruk with Golden Microphone Honourarium

Bob Ridley (right) congratulates Les Lazaruk on having been awarded the Golden Microphone Honourarium on Jan. 27 in Medicine Hat during a visit by the Saskatoon Blades. (Photo by Blair Reid) OKOTOKS, Alta. (Jan. 27, 2026) — Les Lazaruk, the longtime play-by-play voice of the WHL’s Saskatoon Blades, will receive the Bob Ridley Golden Microphone ...

WCPHS Foundation Mourns the Passing of Gary Sutter

WCPHS Foundation Mourns the Passing of Gary Sutter

The Western Canada Professional Hockey Scouts Foundation is mourning the loss of Gary Sutter after the first family of hockey’s eldest son died on Wednesday (Dec. 31) in Viking, Alta. He was a week from his 71st birthday. “The Foundation joins in hockey fans from around the world in offering deepest condolences to Gary’s family and friends,” said Garth Malarchuk, the WCPHS Foundation’s chairman of the board. “We all know how much the Sutters have meant to hockey and Gary was an integral part of the family.”

Let’s be honest! If you can’t be there …. READ MORE

Let’s be honest! The Western Canada Professional Hockey Scouts Foundation would love to see you at our Celebrating Indigenous Hockey Legends, presented by Bouchier, banquet and festivities in Regina’s Conexus Arts Centre on Tuesday, Sept. 30. And we know that you would love to be there. But we fully understand if you aren’t able to …