Category Archives: Blazers Today
Ottawa Senators sign former Blazer Balcers for one year
KAMLOOPS --- Former Kamloops Blazers forward Rudolfs Balcers has signed a one year, two way contract with the Ottawa Senators.If he plays in the NHL the deal will pay $735,000 -- $70,000 if he plays i...
Oct 16, 2020
January start to WHL season will mean a shorter schedule
KAMLOOPS --- Yesterday the Western Hockey League announced a third delay to the start of the season -- pushing it back another five weeks, to Friday, January 8.As it's been with the other delays, it b...
Oct 15, 2020
WHL delays season start until January
KAMLOOPS --- There will be no games in the Western Hockey League until 2021.For the third time the league has delayed the season start because of COVID-19.The new scheduled start date is now Friday, J...
Oct 14, 2020
Kamloops-born WHL'ers help out their local Peter Puck Hockey program
KAMLOOPS - It's important to remember, whether it's hockey or life, that everyone starts somewhere. For countless local hockey players, that start came in Peter Puck with Dianna Hartnell."I think this...
Oct 13, 2020
Canucks select Kamloops Blazers 2020 CHL import draft
KAMLOOPS --- The Vancouver Canucks have selected Viktor Persson in the 7th and final round of the NHL draft.Persson, a defenseman from Sweden, was the Kamloops Blazers pick in the 2020 CHL import draf...
Oct 07, 2020
Rangers select goaltender Garand in NHL draft.
KAMLOOPS --- After Connor Zary in round one, the Kamloops Blazers next player drafted in the 2020 NHL draft was in round four.The replacement for Henrik Lundqvist? Well, maybe sometime in the future.D...
Oct 07, 2020
Flames GM on drafting Connor Zary: "he's a Swiss Army Knife and a rink rat."
KAMLOOPS --- For the first time since 2007 the Kamloops Blazers have had a player taken in the first round of the NHL draft.That player 13 years ago was Keaton Ellerby, to the Florida Panthers.This ti...
Oct 07, 2020
'It'll be just as special': Blazers' Zary looking at positives ahead of virtual NHL Draft
KAMLOOPS - Connor Zary grew up cheering for the Toronto Maple Leafs. On Tuesday night, Toronto could be the team that picks him to add to an already offensively-talented group. "I kind of started watc...
Oct 06, 2020
Blazers ranked in CHL pre-season top ten
KAMLOOPS --- Even though the Western Hockey League and Ontario Hockey League won't begin the season until December, the Canadian Hockey League has issued the pre-season top ten rankings.The Quebec Lea...
Sep 30, 2020
Blazers owner confident there will be a season.
KAMLOOPS --- Normally the Western Hockey League season would have started this past weekend.Because of Covid-19 that was first delayed until October 2, and then later pushed back another two months to...
Sep 21, 2020
