Image Credit: Chad Hellingman/Kamloops Storm

By Victor Kaisar

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Kamloops Storm bow out of KIJHL playoffs with defeat to 100 Mile House Wranglers

Mar 23, 2025 | 10:11 AM

KAMLOOPS — Braycen Dube scored a pair but it wasn’t enough as the Kamloops Storm fell 3-2 to the 100 Mile House Wranglers Saturday (March 22) night in game six of their second round KIJHL playoff series.

Digeo Cazac scored the series winner into the empty-net with a little over a minute to play, as the Wranglers clinched the Doug Birks Division final four games to two.

Dube opened the scoring for the Storm with a power play marker at 10:47 of the second period. The Wranglers pulled back through Jaden Rusznak, after he scored a short-handed goal at 15:29 of the period.

The Wranglers – who are coached by Merritt native Levi Stuart – then took the lead at 6:52 of the third through Everett Boutcher, before Cazac’s goal put them on the cusp of victory.

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Dube made things interesting as he struck just 12 seconds later at 19:02, but the Storm weren’t able to find the tying goal at McArthur Island.

Storm goaltender Brenner Fyfe stopped 32 of 34 shots in a losing effort. At the other end, Tyson Endall made 31 saves on 33 shots to pick up the win.

The Wrangers will now face the Revelstoke Grizzlies for the Okanagan-Shuswap Conference Finals. The Grizzlies, the defending Teck Cup Champions, beat the Princeton Posse in six games in the Bill Ohlhausen Division Final.

Over in the Kootenay Conference Finals, the still-undefeated Grand Forks Border Bruins will play the Kimberly Dynamiters in a best-of-seven series.

No Kamloops Storm team has reached the third round of the KIJHL playoffs since 2015. Their quest to end that lengthy streak will have to wait for at least one more season.