Category Archives: Local Sports
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
Dunstone uncertain of curling season after COVID-19 restrictions on Saskatchewan curlers
KAMLOOPS - Saskatchewan skip Matt Dunstone is one of the up-and-coming stars of Canadian curling, but he sits between a rock and a hard place when it comes to the 2020-2021 curling season. The Kamloop...
Oct 09, 2020
NorthPaws manager putting on major recruiting miles day into new job
KAMLOOPS - Not even a day after being hired by the Kamloops NorthPaws, the team's first manager Cole Armstrong is already busy recruiting, travelling from his home in Wichita, Kansas to Oklahoma City ...
Oct 09, 2020
Kamloops Northpaws hire first head coach
KAMLOOPS --- The Kamloops NorthPaws are thrilled to announce Cole Armstrong as the first head coach in franchise history. The 37-year-old from Surrey, B.C. becomes the only current Canadian serving as...
Oct 08, 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
Blazers' Zary picked 24th overall by Calgary Flames
KAMLOOPS - Connor Zary is a Calgary Flame. After waiting longer than expected, the 19-year-old Saskatoon native celebrated with family as the Flames called his name 24th overall. Calgary traded down t...
Oct 06, 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
