Category Archives: Blazers Today

"It's been a breath of fresh air": Blazers liking different coaching style
KAMLOOPS - When Don Hay was let go in May as part of the Blazers’ shake-up, there was a shroud of mystery around it and there still is. But as training camp wraps up, the players are liking the ...
Kayla Derkach Aug 28, 2018

Blazers wrap up training camp--Team Strudwick rallies to defeat Team Tucker
KAMLOOPS - Four days of training camp wrapped up today with the awarding of the first annual Blazers Cup. With 90 players, veterans and rookies in the mix, on four teams in a tournament format. 17-yea...
Kayla Derkach Aug 27, 2018

Blazers chances of hosting 2020 Memorial Cup improve with Victoria announcement
KAMLOOPS - The Blazers chances of hosting the 2020 Memorial Cup have improved following an announcement by the Victoria Royals. The Royals have dropped out of the bidding, leaving Kamloops, Kelowna an...
Kayla Derkach Aug 27, 2018

Even after being drafted in the NHL, Loewen still feels he has something to prove
KAMLOOPS -Jermaine Loewen has spent his whole life proving people wrong. Adopted from an orphanage in Jamaica, Loewen wasn’t even supposed to be here in Kamloops. But he is. He wasn’t supp...
Kayla Derkach Aug 24, 2018

Don Hay joins Portland Winterhawks as assistant coach
KAMLOOPS - When it comes to coaching experience this coming season, no team in the Western Hockey League is going to have more of it than the Portland Winterhawks. Three months after Don Hay became a ...
Kayla Derkach Aug 20, 2018

Dan Kordic arrives, starts job as new AC with the Blazers
KAMLOOPS - There will be a lot of the same faces under those helmuts on the ice, but a much different look behind the bench when the Blazers begin the new season in just over a month. Toledo is still ...
Kayla Derkach Aug 15, 2018

Darryl Sydor moving on after life in the NHL
KAMLOOPS - Blazers hockey school is underway this week at the Sandman Centre. Every summer alumni return to help instruct. Among those at this weeks camp is Darryl Sydor, a former defenceman on the te...
Kayla Derkach Aug 14, 2018

Blazers alum Chase Souto excelling in life after hockey
KAMLOOPS - Chase Souto’s hockey career didn’t end the way he would’ve liked, but with multiple concussions, he knew he had to pull the plug during his 19-year-old season. “I ha...
Kayla Derkach Aug 09, 2018

Blazers send Jackson Shepard to Lethbridge for 19 year old Zane Franklin
KAMLOOP — Kamloops Blazers General Manager Matt Bardsley has announced a trade as the Blazers have acquired 19-year-old forward Zane Franklin and a 4th round pick in the 2020 WHL Bantam Draft fr...
Kayla Derkach Jul 31, 2018

Blazers new coach feels there's good leadership in locker room
KAMLOOPS - It’s been a month since Serge Lajoie was named the new head coach of the Kamloops Blazers, and in that short time he’s been in touch with the players he’ll be leading behi...
Kayla Derkach Jul 26, 2018

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