Category Archives: Local Sports
Blazers win Game 4 in overtime, sweep Giants away
LANGLEY - The Kamloops Blazers are off to the second round of the WHL playoffs, beating the Vancouver Giants 5-4 in overtime Thursday night (April 6) to sweep the first round series between the B.C. D...
Apr 07, 2023
Blazers look to sweep Giants, make WHL history
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Blazers are in a different stratosphere compared to the Vancouver Giants. While there have been moments when games have been fairly close, the Blazers have never been in danger...
Apr 06, 2023
Kamloops Blazers blank Giants to take stranglehold on series
LANGLEY - If the Vancouver Giants thought home-ice advantage would turn around their WHL first-round series with the Kamloops Blazers, they were wrong. After pounding the Giants 8 - 0 and 6 - 1 in the...
Apr 05, 2023
Blazers among finalists for WHL Business Award
CALGARY - The Western Hockey league announced the division nominees for the WHL Business Award earlier Tuesday (April 4). The four nominees, each from one division, include the Kamloops Blazers, Edmon...
Apr 04, 2023
Blazers not looking ahead to sweep after dominant first two games
KAMLOOPS - After the first two games of the series, it would be a safe assumption the Blazers are on their way to a four-game sweep of the Vancouver Giants. The Giants put up more of a fight in Game 2...
Apr 04, 2023
Blazers, Giants renew rivalry in another playoff series starting Friday night
KAMLOOPS - The Blazers and Giants know each other maybe better than any other team in the league. Eight regular season meetings and a second-round playoff series last spring that went six games. "We'v...
Mar 31, 2023
Incoming NorthPaws assistant given green light to become club's new head coach
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops NorthPaws had their incoming assistant coach relive them of their search for a new head coach for the 2023 West Coast League (WCL) season.In a news release issued Friday (March...
Mar 31, 2023
Two Kamloops basketball players are preparing for Special Olympics World Games in June
KAMLOOPS - From the River City to one of the greatest cities in Europe. For Tyra Flukinger and Taralyn Kalalest - known by her nickname PK - it's the chance of a lifetime. They're both Berlin-bound fo...
Mar 30, 2023
Giants' upset of Everett last year a point of conversation in Blazers' locker room
KAMLOOPS - The Blazers and Giants renew their rivalry starting Friday night (Mar. 31), a rematch of last year's second-round series won by Kamloops in six games. The Blazers are well aware of how Vanc...
Mar 30, 2023
Stankoven gets B.C. Division nomination for WHL Humanitarian of the Year
KAMLOOPS - For the second year in a row, Kamloops Blazers captain Logan Stankoven is up for the Western Hockey League's (WHL) Humanitarian of the Year.In a news release issued Thursday (March 30) morn...
Mar 30, 2023
