Category Archives: Blazers Today
WHL names first all-stars for 2019-20 season
KAMLOOPS ---- Blazers forward Connor Zary and Portland Winterhawks defenceman Johnny Ludvig have been named to the Western Hockey League Western Conference first all-star team.Zary scored 38 goals and...
Apr 07, 2020 Image credit: Evan Fitzer
Blazers goaltender Rayce Ramsay - remembering Humboldt
KAMLOOPS --- Two years ago today, April 6, 2018, began like any other normal day.It was a Friday.By the end of the day, it was anything but normal.A bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos hockey team on th...
Apr 06, 2020 Image credit: contributed
Blazers Franklin named WHL all-star
KAMLOOPS --- Blazers forward and team captain Zane Franklin has been named to the Western Hockey League second all-star team.Franklin led the Blazers in scoring in the 2019-20 season with 29 goals, 62...
Apr 06, 2020 Image credit: Evan Fitzer
On the sports vault re-wind ----- game six.
KAMLOOPS --- It stands out as one of the classic games in Blazers franchise history ---- affectionately known as "game six."The playoffs in 2012 --- Western Conference semi final --- the Kamloops Blaz...
Mar 30, 2020 Image credit: Kamloops Blazers
Blazers announce 2020-21 awards recipients
FitKAMLOOPS - Under normal circumstances, the Blazers would present their year-end awards at the final home game of the regular season --- that would have been last Saturday.Of course, these are not n...
Mar 27, 2020 Image credit: Kamloops Blazers
Tough decisions ahead, Blazers with glut of 20 year olds in 2020-21
KAMLOOPS ---- Now that the Blazers season is over with the cancellation of the playoffs in the Western Hockey League, the planning starts for next season.There will be some tough decisions to make ahe...
Mar 26, 2020 Image credit: Kamloops Blazers
Blazers take forward and goaltender with bloodlines in U.S. Prospects draft
KAMLOOP --- The Blazers took a forward and a goaltender in todays Western Hockey League U.S. Prospects Draft.With 14th overall they drafted left winger Drew Stewart from Minnetonka, Minnesota. Draftin...
Mar 25, 2020 Image credit: contributed
Franklin, Stankoven disappointed not knowing how the season could have ended
KAMLOOPS --- The complete shutdown and cancellation of the remainder of the season, including playoffs, is unprecedented in the 54 season history of the Western Hockey League.While it's disheartening ...
Mar 24, 2020 Image credit: Kamloops Blazers
Blazers layoff staff, pay cuts
KAMLOOPS --- The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing businesses to shutter, costing jobs and putting people out of work.The Kamloops Blazers closed their office and store last week.Now office staff has been ...
Mar 23, 2020 Image credit: Kamloops Blazers
Inside the sports vault --- the 1990 NHL draft
KAMLOOPS --- As we unlock the archive vault again, and take a look back at stories involving local teams, tournaments and athletes during the current shutdown in sports.This time we rewind 30 years --...
Mar 20, 2020 Image credit: Dave Woodward
