The Kamloops Blazers scored a 4-2 victory over the Portland Winterhawks on Saturday night, led by a trio of multi-point performances. Collin Shirley, Nick Chyzowski and Garrett Pilon all had a goal and an assist in the win. Kamloops led for much of Saturday’s contest, pulling ahead near the start of the first period on Chyzowski’s marker. In the second, Pilon ...
Gage Quinney’s initial shot was stopped, but he scored his first of two goals during a scramble on this play. Allen Douglas/KTW Ty Ronning, son of former Vancouver Canuck star Cliff, scored with two seconds remaining in overtime to lift his Vancouver Giants to a 4-3 victory over the Kamloops Blazers Friday night at Sandman Centre. Even with the win, ...
Joe Sakic had an illustrious WHL career, but was he the best player to come out of the Dub? The league will begin its countdown of the top 50 greatest WHL players at Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada. Asked to name the best player in Western Hockey League history, Trevor Linden responded with a common answer to the question. “I ...
It was a stage fit for gladiators. That’s how Lanny McDonald described the old Tigers’ barn, the Medicine Hat Arena, replaced this season by the Canalta Centre in the southwestern Albertan city of about 61,000. Trevor Linden remembers it the same way. “The Medicine Hat Arena was a special place,” said Linden, who won back-to-back Memorial Cups with the Tigers ...
Darcy Tucker (right) and Chris Murray formed a special bond in Kamloops in the early 1990s. The former Blazers will participate next week in Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada. All hell had broken loose and, in the midst of it, as usual, was 5-foot-9, 150-pound Darcy Tucker. The Kamloops Blazers and hometown Portland Winterhawks engaged in a bench-clearing brawl in ...
Darryl Sydor never wants to return to the place he found himself on Aug. 21, the morning after he was arrested for drunk driving in Fridley, Minn. The former Kamloops Blazer sought treatment at an inpatient centre in California in August and September and feels like he has turned a corner. Allen Douglas/KTW Five months after the worst mistake of ...
Third place in the B.C. Division slipped further from the Kamloops Blazers’ grasp after a pair of losses to the hometown Prince George Cougars on the weekend. Prince George shellacked Kamloops 6-1 on Saturday and 9-4 on Friday at the CN Centre. The Blazers (22-18-4-3) are nine points back of the Cougars, who are third in the B.C. Division, but ...
The Prince George Cougars scored four times in the second period and added four goals in the third period en route to a 9-4 victory over the visiting Kamloops Blazers on Friday night. The win before a crowd of 3,251 at CN Centre moved the Cougars to 58 points, one behind second-place Victoria in the B.C. Division. The loss keeps ...
No team had done it before and it may never happen again. The Kamloops Blazers won three Memorial Cup championships in four years and that feat will be recognized by the Western Hockey League at Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada when the local major junior franchise is presented with a Milestone Achievement Award. “It’s unprecedented in the modern-day history of ...
Matt Campese (right) was scratched from the Kamloops Blazers’ lineup 18 times in 2014-2015. He spent nine more games watching from the stands this season. He’s hoping to stay out of the press box by continuing a recent run of good form. Allen Douglas/KTW Matt Campese was scratched more than Grandmaster Flash’s turntables last season. After spending 18 games watching ...
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