Matt Tidcombe
Matt Tidcombe covers major junior hockey across the Canadian Hockey League with a league-wide view of its players, events and history. He leads the Canadian Hockey League’s content output, shaping written, video and social coverage and filing pieces that connect marquee tournaments, prospects and alumni stories. His work spans all three member leagues and focuses on how championships, international stages and development events define careers in junior hockey.
Memorial Cup and CHL championships
Tidcombe handles disciplinary and regulatory angles around the league’s flagship tournament, including coverage of disciplinary action at the 2026 Memorial Cup. He also writes features that revisit past champions, such as a piece on the reunion of the 2000 Memorial Cup-winning Rimouski Océanic, highlighting the long tail of major junior success and the bonds formed around the trophy. His championship coverage pairs breaking news and official announcements with reflective features, so the Memorial Cup appears as both a live competition and a touchstone in the league’s wider story.
World Juniors and international tournaments
Tidcombe regularly connects Canadian Hockey League storylines to international tournaments, most notably the World Juniors and the Hlinka Gretzky Cup. He has covered Canada’s New Year’s Eve World Juniors rivalry with the United States, framing the matchup in terms of its recent history and its place in the tournament schedule. His Hlinka Gretzky Cup pieces follow CHL players into national team roles, including coverage of Otters captain Adam Schaefer and an all-WHL line driving Canada into the final, tying team success back to their junior clubs.
Across these events, he emphasises rosters, roles and game context, showing how CHL players move onto international ice and what that means for their development.
Prospects, draft eligibility and rising talent
A consistent thread in Tidcombe’s work is the focus on draft-eligible players and emerging stars within the CHL system. He profiles goaltenders and skaters who are tracking toward NHL attention, such as Steelheads netminder Jack Ivankovic, and uses performance at international and domestic events to illustrate their trajectory. He writes about leadership and experience on youth national teams, including features on Guelph’s Jett Luchanko and Oshawa’s Cal Ritchie bringing NHL experience to a Canadian World Juniors roster, positioning them within both their club and national contexts.
His coverage of the CHL USA Prospects Challenge presented by Kubota Canada underlines his interest in first-year NHL Draft-eligible players, explaining how showcase events pit CHL prospects against USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program and what that reveals about the next wave of talent.
League movements, video coverage and WHL focus
Tidcombe’s remit includes tracking player and staff movement across the leagues, as seen in his “Faces in different places” coverage that details new roles and destinations ahead of the 2026–27 season. He pairs this written work with video pieces that preview and recap Western Hockey League games, including highlights packages, game-of-the-week features and a WHL season preview that sets expectations for the year. His video output is tightly tied to game action, using clips to reinforce storylines about teams, key performers and competitive balance in the WHL. Alongside this, he writes league history and recognition pieces such as coverage of Audette, Beauregard, Fleury, Richard and Tanguay being honoured in the QMJHL Hall of Fame, showing an interest in how alumni and past greats remain part of the CHL narrative. The combination of movement tracking, game-focused video content and Hall of Fame coverage marks him out as a writer who connects day-to-day news with the longer arc of junior hockey.
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