The Professional Hockey Scouts Foundation is mourning the loss of Don Paarup, a 2024 inductee into our Wall of Honour. He was 87. He spent 33 years scouting for the Quebec Nordiques/Colorado Avalanche. Was a wonderful travelling partner and a terrific friend to a lot of us. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family …
Celebrating Indigenous Hockey Legends Coming to Kelowna, BC
KELOWNA (May 26, 2026) — The non-profit Professional Hockey Scouts Foundation is bringing its annual celebration of Indigenous hockey to Kelowna. The second annual Celebrating Indigenous Hockey Legends dinner will be held at the Okanagan city’s Delta Grand Okanagan Resort on Sept. 29. That is the evening prior to Truth and Reconciliation Day in Canada. …
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
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.”
Bzdel, Bailey headline Wall of Honour’s 20-member Class of 2026
OKOTOKS, Alta. (Nov. 18, 2025) — Jim Bzdel, a veteran of more than 30 years in the scouting game, and Garnet (Ace) Bailey, who was part of seven Stanley Cup-winners as a player and/or scout, headline the Class of 2026 that will be inducted into the Western Canada Professional Hockey Scouts Foundation’s Wall of Honour …
Scouts Foundation Shares its Good Cheer with Medicine Hat Groups
MEDICINE HAT (Nov. 10, 2025) — The Western Canada Professional Hockey Scouts Foundation, a beneficiary of the inaugural Yuill Foundation Golf Classic, is spreading some of that largesse around the Medicine Hat community. The WCPHS Foundation received $93,000 from the Yuill Foundation after the Golf Classic was held at Desert Blume Golf Course on Sept. …
With Successful Past, Foundation Looks Ahead to Exciting Times
The scouting report has arrived: “A short but solid past . . . looking at a bright future. May even have to wear sunglasses at night.” The scout in question was, of course, referring to the Western Canada Professional Hockey Scouts Foundation, which is now in the early days of its third year of existence. …
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 …