Bisons Gameday!

Road trips are always fun. I've been lucky enough to ride the coattails of the Bisons women's hockey team to places thanks to our efforts to broadcast their games back to their fans. When I think of the places we've gone, we broadcasted games from Thompson Arena on the campus of Western University in London. We called games from MacLauchlan Arena on the UPEI campus in Charlottetown. We've stopped in for exhibition games at the Tundra Oil and Gas Place in Virden, Manitoba. I consider myself pretty lucky to have visited these great arenas and communities while supporting the Bisons, so let's add one more name to that list this weekend!

The Manitoba Bisons women's hockey team is on the road to play the Saskatchewan Huskies tonight and tomorrow at the state-of-the-art Merlis Belsher Place. Being that I've been cooped up for way too long through the pandemic and with hockey finally becoming a reality again, I figured now is a good time to take a break from everything Winnipeg and make the trip west to our neighbouring province to call these games!

For the first time in UMFM history, we'll air this weekend's regular season road games for listeners! This won't be over the usual UMFM airwaves, though, as there are still restrictions at the University of Manitoba that will prevent that, but you can listen all weekend on a special stream we have set up for this specific set of games! Click the button below at 7:30pm CT, and you'll hear my voice talking Canada West women's hockey!

Of course, you can always go directly to the site where we set this alternate stream idea up and listen there as well. As you likely know, the men's hockey team is hosting Mike Babcock and the Saskatchewan Huskies men's hockey team this weekend at Wayne Fleming Arena, so don't go looking for the women's game on the UMFM Second Stream as the men have it occupied!

I'll be on the road most of today so I'll be off the grid, but I'd be remiss in not pointing out that this week's CTV Winnipeg Sports Star of the Week is someone we know quite well. Here's the video. Ashley Keller is going to have a long, successful career with the Bisons based on her first couple of weeks of play in Canada West, and we're excited to see her do more great things in the brown-and-gold uniform! You can hear her and the Bisons battle the undefeated Saskatchewan Huskies tonight and tomorrow on the stream above as UMFM's Bisons women's hockey broadcasts come to you live from Merlis Belsher Place in Saskatoon!

Until next time, keep your sticks on the ice!