Category Archives: Blazers Today

Blazers three Amigos alumni with new NHL coaching jobs
KAMLOOPS - Among the former Blazers back in town this week for the alumni golf tournament were three team legends who all came from around the same era of the franchise. There’s something else t...
Kayla Derkach Jul 14, 2017

Blazers Balcers signs NHL entry-level contract with San Jose
SAN JOSE, CA - Rudolfs Balcers has signed an entry level contract with the NHL San Jose Sharks. 20-year old Balcers scored 40 goals and 37 assists with the Kamloops Blazers last season and was the Wes...
Kayla Derkach Jul 13, 2017

Blazers legends Doan and Iginla on their NHL futures
KAMLOOPS - The three highest profile free agents still left on the NHL market are all in their 40’s, but feel they still have something left in the tank. 45-year old Jaromir Jagr has received on...
Kayla Derkach Jul 12, 2017

Blazers co-owner Mark Recchi new assistant coach with Pittsburgh
KAMLOOPS - Mark Recchi has a new job —- as assistant coach with the Pittsburgh Penguins. He replaces Rick Tocchet, who has left the Penguins to become head coach of the Arizona Coyotes. Recchi, ...
Kayla Derkach Jul 11, 2017

Rizzo opts for Penticton over Blazers for 2017-18 season
KAMLOOPS - The Blazers won’t be getting their first round pick from the 2016 bantam draft in the coming season — if ever! 16-year old forward Massimo Rizzo has decided to play for the Pent...
Kayla Derkach Jul 04, 2017

Blazers add Swiss forward in CHL import draft
KAMLOOPS - The Blazers have gone to Switzerland for their latest pick in the Canadian Hockey League import draft. They had been slotted to pick at number 42 —- but when six teams ahead of them p...
Kayla Derkach Jun 28, 2017

Konowalchuk leaves WHL champs
KAMLOOPS - Another coaching vacancy has opened in the Western Hockey League. Steve Konowalchuk is leaving the Western League champion Seattle Thunderbirds for an assistant coaches job with the Anaheim...
Kayla Derkach Jun 28, 2017

Blazers 2017-18 schedule released
KAMLOOPS - The 2017-18 Kamloops Blazers schedule has been released. The Blazers will open with a home-and-home series with the Kelowna Rockets. The Blazers are in Kelowna Friday, September 22nd and ho...
Kayla Derkach Jun 27, 2017

Goaltender Dylan Ferguson has been traded -- but not by the Blazers
KAMLOOPS - Eight blazers are scheduled to go to NHL development camps later this week or in early July. Deven Sideroff to Anaheim, Connor Ingram Tampa Bay, Garret Pilon Washington and Ondrej Vala to D...
Kayla Derkach Jun 26, 2017

Mark Recchi is going into the Hockey Hall of Fame
KAMLOOPS - The wait is over for Mark Recchi. This fall Recchi will take his rightful place in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Kayla Derkach Jun 26, 2017

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