Neepawa Titans celebrate player signings Junior ‘A’ Hockey Club makes two community presentations

By Ken Waddell Neepawa Banner & Press

Sixty people were served a wonderful steak supper at the Neepawa Titans Junior “A” Hockey Club’s Steakout on July 28 at the Neepawa Golf and Country Club. Fans, families and players gathered to be introduced to the auto-protected and newly signed players. Head Coach and General Manager Ken Pearson introduced 2023 Auto Protected players Addison McIntosh and Cohen Kulbacki of Neepawa. McIntosh plays with Yellowhead Chiefs 18U AAA and is a forward. Kulbacki is also from Neepawa and plays with the Neepawa Tigers High School team and is a forward.

Newly signed players for 2023-24 are: K.C. Couckuyt of Brandon who played with the Brandon Wheat Kings 18U AAA as a goalie; Ty Schell of Shilo who played with the Southwest Cougars 18U AAA as a forward; Kyle Weisgarber of Regina SK who played with the Yorkton Maulers 18U AAA as a forward; Rylan Bray of Neepawa who played Yellowhead Chiefs 18U AAA who played on defence and Liam Foley of Winnipeg who played with the Charleswood Hawks MMJHL, also as a defenceman.

Neepawa Titans vice-president Jamie Denbow emceed the event and said, “The Titans are about hockey but they are also about giving back to the community. At the

2023 Neepawa Titans’ Sports Dinner, guest speaker Tyler McGregor only charged his travel and accommodation. Tyler is the captain of the Canadian Mens’ Sledge Hockey team. Instead of a speaker fee, he asked that we make a donation to an important community initiative and we selected the hospital fund as this initiative. Councillor Lisa Pottinger attended to accept the cheque on behalf of the Town of Neepawa.

Denbow explained. “For the 2023 Neepawa Titans Sports dinner, local photo artist Jodi Baker made a generous deal with the team by providing a package of her artwork for the fund raising auction. Part of that package was a canvas print of the now famous “Goals in Life” print to be donated by the Neepawa Titans to the Yellowhead Centre for display in the lobby. YHC president Wayne Jacobsen, who is also the voice of the Titans on NACTV and HockeyTV attended the Steakout to receive the photo on behalf of The YHC.

The Neepawa Titans have a golf tournament and poker derby at the NGCC on August 11 and a hockey school and fall camp at the end of August at Neepawa’s Yellowhead Centre. There are still a few spaces available for golf and you can purchase a silent rider hand for the poker derby.

Early Bird or Silent Cart Riders can purchase by e-transferring to neepawatitans@wcgwave.com with descriptionpoker derby.