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2024 MANITOBA HOCKEY HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

The Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame is proud to announce its list of Inductees for the 2024 Class. For the full bios, please go to 2024 CLASS. This year, 680 CJOB and the Jets at Noon show helped...

2023 FINAL FACE-OFF

Kent Morgan has graciously put together the names of those we lost in 2023 with a connection to Manitoba's hockey community. To access, please click here...

MANITOBA HOCKEY HERITAGE DAY VETERANS LUNCHEON

The Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame celebrated the 2023 Manitoba Hockey Heritage Day with a special luncheon inducting three Veteran Players, a Builder and two teams. December 20th has been...

2023 Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame Hockey Heritage Community Award

The 2023 Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame Hockey Heritage Community Award recipient has been announced, and it's the East Selkirk Recreation Centre. Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame Past-President Don...

FINAL FACE-OFF 2022

Kent Morgan has once again graciously provided the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame with a list of the hockey folks we lost in 2022. Please find the article HERE...

2022 MANITOBA HOCKEY HALL OF FAME CLASS

The Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame is proud to induct the 2022 Class of Honourees. Six Players, One Builder, One Media, One Official, Two Teams and a Veteran Selection will enter the Hall this...

Bud McCormick

Bud McCormick, founding father of the Winnipeg Clubs Oldtimers Hockey Club has passed away. Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame writer Ty Dilello has written a look at Bud's life. Read here....

125 YEARS AGO, WINNIPEG DEFENDS THE STANLEY CUP!

125 years ago, on December 30, 1896 the Winnipeg Victorias hosted the Montreal Victorias in a Stanley Cup challenge match at Winnipeg's McIntyre Rink on Albert Street. The Montreal club and its...

FINAL FACE-OFF 2021

During 2021, the hockey community lost many Manitobans, and many with a connection to the sport of hockey in our province. Also included are earlier deaths not mentioned in The Final Face-Off in...

MANITOBA HOCKEY HERITAGE DAY

In 2020, the Manitoba Government proclaimed December 20th as Manitoba Hockey Heritage Day. This date acknowledges the anniversary of Western Canada's first organized hockey match played in...

UKRAINIAN NATIONAL TEAM OFFICIALS VISIT MANITOBA HOCKEY HALL OF FAME

Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame President Don Kuryk attended the Canadian Friends of Hockey in Ukraine dinner on Tuesday December 1st . Don had the opportunity to greet the Ukrainian delegation and...

Join Ty Dilello for the launch of Mosienko: The Man Who Caught Lightning in a Bottle

On Wednesday October 27, 7:00 pm CDT (Great Plains Publications) in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park. The event will also be broadcast live via YouTube. * To view the...

Teammate Tale Solved

We received an inquiry on this team photo from the family of Phenix Decosse, seated in the middle row right. They wanted to know which team this was. Our first clue was the man sitting in the...

NHL HISTORY WITH TY DILELLO

Hockey author and historian Ty Dilello has posted some great stories for us in the past on Manitoba's hockey heritage. He's had the opportunity to sit down and chat with a lot of hockey folks...

GOT ANY HOCKEY PHOTOGAPHS, SCRAPBOOKS or PROGRAMS?

Got any Hockey Photos, Scrapbooks or Programs? Don't throw them out!! Do you have any photos that pertain to Manitoba hockey? Our Research committee are seeking photos that could be scanned and...

ALAN 'BUTCH' LEE 10/28/1929 - 7/19/21

Mr. Allan "Butch" Lee of Melita and formerly of Pierson passed away on Monday, July 19, 2021 at the age of 91. He was predeceased by his parents, Stephen and Sadie (Southam) Lee; father and...

Bob 'Pinkie' Davie Story

Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame writer, Ty Dilello has put together an interesting article on the hockey life of Beausejour, Manitoba's Bob 'Pinkie Davie.Click Here to read....

Johnny Peirson July 21, 1925 – April 16, 2021

The Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame was saddened to hear of the passing of Johnny Peirson on April 16, 2021. Born in Winnipeg on July 21, 19925, the Peirson family moved to Montreal when he was a...

ED SWEENEY MEMORIAL AWARD RECIPIENT - GEOFF KIRBYSON

The Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame is pleased to present Geoff Kirbyson with an Ed Sweeney Memorial Award for his excellent The Hot Line: How the Legendary Trio of Hull, Hedberg and Nilsson...

2020 MBHHF Scholarship Recipients

The Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum sponsors two awards including the Ken "Friar" Nicolson Award for a male high school hockey player and the Sami Jo Small Award for a female hockey...

2019 Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame Community Award

The Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame is pleased to announce that St. Claude, MB is the 2019 Community Award recipient. The Community Award dollars will go towards rebuilding the...

2019 Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame Inductees to be announced

The Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame will announce its 2019 Class on Thursday, May 2, 2019 @ 11:30 AM at Canad Inns Polo Park, 1405 St Matthews Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3G 3P7 The 2019 Manitoba Hockey Hall...

Memories of Sport

In this article courtesy of Canstar News, T. Kent Morgan writes about the changing landscape of minor hockey in Winnipeg during the Fifties and Sixties and a simmering rivalry between Flin Flon...

Final Face-off 2018

T. Kent Morgan has provided the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame with a list of folks in the local hockey world that passed away in 2018. Also included are earlier deaths not mentioned previously or...

The Bob Chrystal Story - Block That Shot

Looking for a gift for a hockey fan this Christmas? Winnipeg author Ty Diello has teamed up with Honoured Member of the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame, Bob Chrystal to tell Bob's fascinating life...

Pioneer Arena renamed to honour Charlie Gardiner

- Article by T. Kent Morgan The Pioneer Arena in Winnipeg has been renamed the Charlie Gardiner Arena to honour the Winnipeg goalie who died in St. Boniface Hospital two months after leading the...

Deadline for 2019 Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame Nominations

Deadline for nominations for the 2019 Class of the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame is Midnight, December 20, 2018. Nominations for induction into the Hall of Fame are welcomed from the public....

Hockey: The Stories Behind our Passion

Kent Morgan, Ted Holland and Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame member Ab McDonald are seen here taking in the Manitoba Museum's Hockey: The Stories Behind our Passion exhibit which will run from July...

2018 MBHHOF Community Award Winner

The Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame is pleased to announce that Lundar, MB is the 2018 Community Award recipient. The MANITOBA HOCKEY HALL OF FAME COMMUNITY AWARD is an annual $5,000.00 prize that...

Western Canada Wasn't Kind to Scotty Bowman

When Scotty Bowman was beginning his Hall of Fame coaching career, Western Canada was not welcoming. T. Kent Morgan writes about the legendary hockey coaches early days in this Canstar Memories...