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Red Deer’s Kaylee Domoney “digs” up a huge win for RDC in battle of top volleyball teams

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Red Deer College Athletics is proud to announce the Bedford Food Company Athletes of the Week

  1. Kaylee Domoney – Queens Volleyball

Hometown – Red Deer, AB

Kinesiology General (4th year)

Kaylee Domoney had another magnificent weekend on the court for the Red Deer College Queens Volleyball team (19-3). Despite having the difficult task of facing the previously undefeated Briercrest College Clippers, the fourth-year libero was a difference maker. On Friday, the Queens did what no other team in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) had done before – defeat the Clippers. In the four set home victory (23-25, 25-22, 25-21, 25-22), Domoney was a steady influence on defence, contributing 11 digs and four assists, and earning the Collegiate Sports Medicine Queens Player-of-the-Game. Even though Briercrest College captured Saturday’s rematch in four sets (16-25, 25-23, 25-22 and 25-15), the Kinesiology General student had another strong game, totaling 12 digs and two assists. Domoney ranks seventh in the league with 3.48 digs per set. The second place RDC Queens have already sealed a spot in the ACAC Championship Feb. 27-29 at Medicine Hat College.

  1. Dylan Thudium – Kings Hockey

Hometown – Sylvan Lake, AB

Bachelor of Business Administration General Management (5th year)

Centre Dylan Thudium made RDC Kings Hockey history this past weekend in a pair of victories against the Portage College Voyageurs. With his four points, the fifth-year student-athlete surpassed former all-star captain Tanner Butler, becoming the Kings all-time points leader with 113. In nearly five years with RDC, Thudium has scored 39 goals and 74 assists, with four regular season games remaining.

In Friday’s 5-3 win, the Kings trailed heading into the third period and the Sylvan Lake product sniped the tying goal. He also assisted on RDC’s first tally. Then in Saturday’s thrilling 7-6 overtime victory, Thudium recorded a pair of assists. The Bachelor of Business Administration General Management student provides leadership and is an offensive threat when he steps on the ice. Thudium and the Kings have already earned a trip to the postseason.

This Week in RDC Athletics is sponsored by Cam Clark Ford

It’s another exciting week ahead in RDC Athletics as teams jockey for positions in the standings. The Red Deer College student-athletes appreciate the community’s support, and the energy provided by the crowd gives them an extra boost.

Both basketball teams will play the Ambrose University Lions two times, as they look to finish their final four games strong in their chase for the playoffs. The Kings & Queens Volleyball squads will entertain the Medicine Hat College Rattlers twice. The Hockey Queens will round out the regular season against the NAIT Ooks, which will be a preview of the semi-finals. The Red Deer College Kings Hockey team will face-off against the Briercrest College Clippers in a pair of road games.

For convenience, tickets can be purchased online.

RDC learners can attend the games for free with valid student ID.

Here is a summary of what is happening this week:

Queens Basketball | Friday, Feb. 21 | 6:00 pm | Ambrose University

The fifth place RDC Queens (8-9) will face the Ambrose University Lions (3-14) in Calgary. All four remaining games have significant meaning with eight points up for grabs in the standings. The Red Deer College Queens have won four of their past six contests.

Harneet Sidhu has been effective from beyond the arc. The second-year guard from Surrey has connected on 43.2 per cent of her three-point attempts, which ranks third in the league.

The Rattlers (9-10) sit fourth in the south, but have locked a position in the postseason as hosts of the championship from March 5-7. The Queens are chasing the Lethbridge College Kodiaks (10-9), who sit in third with 20 points. RDC also has two games in hand.

Queens Basketball | Saturday, Feb. 22 | 6:00 pm | Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre

The RDC Queens will compete against the Lions at RDC.

Kings Basketball | Friday, Feb. 21 | 8:00 pm | Ambrose University

The fifth seed Red Deer College Kings (8-9) will challenge the third place Ambrose University Lions (10-7) on the road.

The Kings have averaged 86.1 points with Spencer Klassen (22.3) leading the team and sitting third in the league. Guard Linden Jackson (17.2) provides an offensive touch for the Lions (88.6).

It will come down to the final game to determine the final two playoff spots. First place Lethbridge College (18-1) and second seed SAIT (13-4) have already qualified from the south. Briercrest College (9-8) currently has the fourth spot with 18 points. St. Mary’s University (8-10) is even with the Kings with 16 points, but has also played one more game.

Kings Basketball | Friday, Feb. 22 | 8:00 pm | Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre

The Kings and Lions will meet in Red Deer.

Queens Volleyball | Friday, Feb. 21 | 6:00 pm | Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre

The second place Red Deer College Queens (19-3) will host the fourth seed Medicine Hat College Rattlers (8-14) in the final regular season series. The Queens have been playing well, winning 19 of their past 20 matches. Emma Holmes and Tess Pearman have both averaged 3.11 kills per set, which ranks the two talented RDC outside hitters fourth in the league. McKenna Olson provides an offensive option from the middle and she has been effective at the net, sitting fourth in Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) Women’s Volleyball with 0.64 blocks per set.

Rattlers middle Megan Hoeber ranks first with 0.69 blocks per set. Outside hitter Amber Stigter is one of Medicine Hat’s offensive leaders, averaging 2.52 kills per set.

The Rattlers will host the ACAC Women’s Volleyball Championship from Feb. 27-29.

Queens Volleyball | Saturday, Feb. 22 | 1:00 pm | Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre

The RDC Queens will entertain the Rattlers in the last match before the playoffs.

Kings Volleyball | Friday, Feb. 21 | 8:00 pm | Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre

The first place RDC Kings (18-4) will play the fifth seed Medicine Hat College Rattlers (6-16). The Kings have been on a roll, winning eight consecutive matches and 14 of their past 15. RDC has averaged 11.66 kills per set, with Legal, Alberta’s Carter Hills (3.01) leading the charge. Setter Thomas Wass continues to rank first in ACAC Men’s Volleyball with 9.25 assists per set.

The Rattlers have knocked down 9.70 kills per set and right side hitter KeAndre Evans (3.29) is their go-to offensive weapon.

The Lethbridge College Kodiaks (18-4) will host the ACAC Men’s Volleyball Championship from Feb. 27-29.

Kings Volleyball | Saturday, Feb. 22 | 3:00 pm | Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre

The Kings will wrap up the regular season against the Rattlers in an afternoon match.

Queens Hockey | Friday, Feb. 21 | 7:00 pm | NAIT

The second seed Red Deer College Queens (14-5-3-0) and third place NAIT Ooks (12-9-1-0) will meet in Edmonton. In four head-to-head games this season, the Queens have not lost in regulation to the Ooks and have earned six-of-eight points in the standings. RDC won 4-2 and 3-2 and dropped a pair of games in the shootout (4-3 and 5-4), still earning a point in each contest. Goaltender Karlee Fetch has played extremely well lately and sports a 2.20 goals against average and 0.921 save percentage. The two teams will also face each other in the semi-finals.

Queens Hockey | Saturday, Feb. 22 | 7:00 pm | Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre

The RDC Queens and NAIT Ooks will clash in Red Deer.

Kings Hockey | Friday, Feb. 21 | 7:00 pm | Briercrest College

The second place Red Deer College Kings (17-5-2-0) will take their top ranked power play (25%) into Saskatchewan and battle the sixth seed Briercrest College Clippers (7-14-2-1). Over 24 games, the Kings have scored 4.25 goals per game and allowed 2.88. The Clippers have lit the lamp 2.79 times and let in 5.67.

Kings Hockey | Saturday, Feb. 22 | 2:00 pm | Briercrest College

The Kings will face-off against the Clippers in an afternoon rematch. Then two games remain in the regular season against the SAIT Trojans.

For more information on RDC Athletics, the student-athletes and teams, please visit: rdcathletics.ca

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Brady Leman – Alpine Skiing Athlete

Calgary native Brady Leman, born October 16, 1986, is celebrated as one of Canada’s most successful ski cross athletes. Overcoming a broken leg at the 2010 Olympics and a near-podium finish in 2014, Brady achieved gold in men’s ski cross at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang.

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What Connor Should Say To Oilers: It’s Not You. It’s Me.

Published on June 28, 2025

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This just in. Connor McDavid is on track to be the greatest hockey player ever. Apologies to the Gretz/ Orr/ Howe partisans. But if he stays healthy and gets the hell out of Edmonton he will be hands-down the best ever. He is equal measures of Gretzky’s intuitive genius, Orr’s 200-foot impact. Howe’s sandpaper attitude. It’s an honour to watch him.

We know, we know, if he is so great why couldn’t he get the Oilers over the hump, particularly the past two seasons against Florida? Gretz, Orr, Howe all won Stanley Cups while leading their teams. So did Mario Lemieux. Fair point. But Howe in his prime never played more than two series in the postseason. Orr often played just three. Gretz teams often bagelled opponents for years.

McDavid’s teams the last two years have had lengthy paths to tred. Just getting to a Final is a huge accomplishment. Repeating that feat (going seven then six games) in the Final is humungous. It’s exhausting, mentally and physically. That’s why so few teams do it.

Still, that’s not the point. We have been asking since 2018 how long McDavid will hobble his legacy by staying in Edmonton. Those early columns were talking about a team that missed playoffs or did a Maple Leafs fold early on. The current iteration of the Oilers has gotten to the brink. They have players who’ve been around a while. And fell short.

Now the Oilers are an old team, the oldest in the  regular season, the oldest team in the playoffs this year. Teams carrying more than two plus-30 players have a miserable track record of winning Cups. And the Oilers have zero Grade A prospects in the pipeline. At 28, McDavid is a young guy on their roster. Not good.

As the hockey world knows he can sign an extension on July 1 to follow the contract he has now. Money will be no object as the NHL salary cap (finally) goes up. Term will be forever if he wants it. His running mate Leon Draisaitl is tied up till age 36. The Oilers desperately want him to stay after the Gretzky fiasco in 1988. So what is he going to do? He’s got national endorsements in Canada, but in the U.S.? Connor who? The sky is the limit.

Oilers fans palpitating over the future of their star were looking for hints as to his mindset when he met the media following the Oilers loss in six games to Florida. It was a chance for him to say he’s staying, he loves the place, his wife is committed to freezing every winter in the Alberta capital. He could have cried and said “Mess told me not to do that”.

What they got was a lot of maybe. Yes, he kept the doors open, but he said he needs time to see the landscape till the clock tolls on July 1. He needs to examine whether this veteran team has a future. Because in a few years they’ll be like Howe’s Detroit teams in the 60s, a played-out dynasty.

Under NHL rules no team can contact him about signing. But he will know that everyone will want him at a max deal. Some will offer no state income tax. Some will have teams on the cusp of the Cup he desires (see Matthew Tkachuk to Florida in 2023). Some will be giant U.S. media cities with the ability to make him what Gretzky became in L.A. Some will offer warm weather and anonymity away from the rink.

These are all knowns. For the impatient,  teams can approach the Oilers now about a trade. So he’s holding all the cards. It’s prom night and he gets his pick. Unless Edmonton (gulp) jumps the gun on a trade.

Let’s play Peter Pocklington for a minute here and see this from the Oilers’ POV. Pocklington traded Gretzky, because Peter was broke. That’s not Darryl Katz’s problem. His problem is his team is about to get ancient. There is no McDavid for Draisaitl on the horizon. Plus, you’ve tied up several players (Nurse, Nugent Hopkins) to contracts they can’t hope to play up to. And youngish players coming into free agency.

He must address the other side of the 1988 Gretzky equation. How to get full market value for a superstar? Which means getting another star to help Draisaitl going forward. You could let the two play out the string together in Edmonton, of course. But with so many strong teams in Colorado, Vegas, Dallas, even Winnipeg that would be a hard slog. And by the time you realized that it would be too late.

The smart play, as Michael Corleone would say, is move fast. Trade McDavid before the start of next season for a boatload of young players to supplement Draisaitl. Take a short-term PR hit but live to compete another day.

Of course, Katz is not going to trade McDavid. He’s a fanboy owner. He’ll throw the Rexall kitchen sink at him and hope that’s enough. McDavid will be patient (if he’s smart). The “will-he-sign?” drama will bleed into the next season, a millstone for the team. The distractions will mount before Edmonton realizes that an unsigned McDavid is a liability. And Connor on a max deal with a minus team is no bargain either.

Remember the re-structured Oilers won a Cup in 1990 using Mark Messier and the players they got for Gretzky. Think about it, Edmonton.

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster  A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada’s top television sports broadcaster, his new book Deal With It: The Trades That Stunned The NHL And Changed hockey is now available on Amazon. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, his previous book with his son Evan, was voted the seventh-best professional hockey book of all time by bookauthority.org . His 2004 book Money Players was voted sixth best on the same list, and is available via brucedowbigginbooks.ca.

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