Red Deer Rebels defenceman Matus Lisy will play for Team Slovakia at the 2026 U20 Five Nations Tournament.<\/p>\n
The competition takes place in Espoo, Finland, from August 26 to August 30 featuring national U20 teams from Finland, Czechia, Slovakia, Sweden, and Switzerland.<\/p>\n
Lisy played his rookie season with the Rebels in 2025-26 after being selected by the club 80th <\/sup>overall in round two of the 2026 CHL Import Draft. He suited up in 62 games and had 22 points, including five goals and 17 assists.<\/p>\n The native of Bratislava, Slovakia played for his country at the 2026 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship in Minnesota. 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But he was looking for an opportunity to return home to Alberta.<\/p>\n So, when Sutter offered him the job he was quick to accept.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m excited, really excited to be back where my family is,\u201d said Kisio in a telephone interview from his current home in Lethbridge.<\/p>\n \u201cI have a daughter 16, and two boys aged 14 and 12 and I\u2019m excited to be back home and be around the family at this time in their growth.<\/p>\n \u201cRed Deer is also home to me,\u201d noted Kisio, who grew up in Calgary and spent a lot of time in Sylvan Lake.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s great to be back home as a head coach with an organization I always looked up to and battled against. Now it\u2019s fun to be part of.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is an opportunity to return home and be a head coach, be around my family and be part of a great organization. These opportunities don\u2019t come around very often. You don\u2019t get to coach back home. When you move away from home, move away from your family you appreciate the opportunity to be back home and be around them.\u201d<\/p>\n He appreciated his time in the Vegas Golden Knights organization the last three years.<\/p>\n \u201cBeing in Henderson was an awesome experience after being in junior for so long,\u201d he said. \u201cYou get the opportunity to see that next step towards the NHL. You see the guys who coached in junior try to take that step and realize it\u2019s right there. It\u2019s one injury, one phone call away. It taught me a lot from that standpoint in realizing how close it is if you push for it.\u201d<\/p>\n Brent Kisio was born in Davos, Switzerland when Kelly played one year in the Swiss League in 1982-83. Kelly returned and spent over a decade in the NHL, finishing his career with the Calgary Flames.<\/p>\n Brent came up through the Calgary minor hockey system before joining the Olds Grizzlys of the AJHL in 1999, spending nearly three seasons there before finishing the 2001-02 season with the Fort McMurray Oil Barons. He finished his junior career with the Vernon Vipers of the BCHL in 2002-03.<\/p>\n During his early days in the WHL, Brent was in the background watching the coaching battles between his dad and Brent Sutter.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was always fun to see those two as friends battle each other,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Brent Sutter indicated he had several strong applications for the head coaching position.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had a number of awesome candidates,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was a good process right to the end.<\/p>\n \u201cIn Brent, he knows the league and he\u2019s had success with not always great teams at times. But he took them above and beyond.<\/p>\n \u201cHe looks to be a great fit for where our team is at today with all the young kids we have coming in.<\/p>\n \u201cHe develops players and gets the most out of them. He communicates well but also holds them accountable but does it with respect. He\u2019s a good fit.\u201d<\/p>\n Brent Kisio will spend a lot of the next month going back and forth between Lethbridge and Henderson and will move to Red Deer in August.<\/p>\n He\u2019s looking forward to meeting the players.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve heard a lot about the young guys and the old guys,\u201d he said. \u201cWe will have a lot of younger guys playing key roles and after talking with the coaches, Brent and the staff, I\u2019m excited about that.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ll meet and learn more about the individuals and it\u2019ll go from there. It will be about developing those players.\u201d<\/p>\n Brent did admit he will be learning after being away from the league for three years.<\/p>\n \u201cThree years doesn\u2019t seem like much, but a lot has happened,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I\u2019m excited to see the changes and to see where everything is at and build from there. I know I\u2019m excited to be part of a great organization and I\u2019m lucky for that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By DANNY RODE – The Kisio family has a history connected with Red Deer Rebels owner\/president\/General Manager Brent Sutter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":30181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"article","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[{"term_id":349,"name":"Brent Kisio","slug":"brent-kisio","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":349,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"}],"class_list":["post-30179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","tag-brent-kisio","category-103","description-off"],"acf":[],"featured_image":["https:\/\/media.chl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/07\/22164214\/Brent-Kisio-Hurricanes.jpeg",1280,720,false],"hide_from_app_feed":false,"video":false,"gallery":null,"ht_game_id":0,"target_video":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-rebels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-rebels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-rebels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-rebels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-rebels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-rebels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30182,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-rebels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30179\/revisions\/30182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-rebels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-rebels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-rebels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-rebels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":30175,"date":"2026-07-21T16:52:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-rebels\/?p=30175"},"modified":"2026-07-21T16:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:57:19","slug":"rebels-announce-new-date-for-regular-season-home-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-rebels\/article\/rebels-announce-new-date-for-regular-season-home-game","title":{"rendered":"Rebels announce new date for regular season home game"},"content":{"rendered":" RED DEER – The Red Deer Rebels today announced a change to the club’s 2026-27 Regular Season schedule.<\/p>\n The Rebels will host the Brandon Wheat Kings at the Marchant Crane Centrium on Friday, November 27 at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n The game was originally scheduled for Saturday, November 28.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Defence
\n<\/strong>Hometown: Ume\u00e5, Sweden
\nDate of Birth: April 14, 2007 (Age 19)
\nHeight: 6\u20191
\nWeight: 198
\nShoots: Left
\n2025-26 Team: Skellefte\u00e5 AIK U20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\n<\/strong>Forward
\n<\/strong>Shoots: Left
\nHeight: 5\u20199
\nWeight: 155
\nBirthdate: Jul 22, 2011
\nHometown: Saskatoon, SK
\nLast Team: Northern Alberta Xtreme U15 Prep
\nNationality: Kazakhstani<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"