Category Archives: Local Sports
Blazers' Hurlbert nominated for WHL player of the year award
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Blazers forward J.P Hurlbert has been nominated for his second major award of the 2025-26 WHL season.The 17-year-old Hurlbert is one of six nominees for the Four Broncos Memorial T...
Apr 09, 2026 J.P. Hurlbert celebrates against the Prince George Cougars on Jan. 16, 2026. (Image Credit: Brian Johnson/Kamloops Blazers)
Kamloops' Mynio named AHL Abbotsford Canucks Rookie of the Year
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops hockey product Sawyer Mynio has earned the first major accolade of his fledgling professional hockey career. The 20-year-old defenceman - who was eligible to return to the WHL for ...
Apr 09, 2026 (Image Credit: Abbotsford Canucks)
Gaglardi offers thoughts on 18-year-old players leaving WHL for NCAA, team-building strategies
KAMLOOPS - Some of the top WHL players are choosing to leave the league and join the NCAA ranks in time for their 18-year-old season. Kamloops Blazers majority owner Tom Gaglardi says in many cases th...
Apr 08, 2026 Development Debate (Image Credit: NCAA)
Blazers' majority owner Gaglardi offers season review, talks of changing WHL-NCAA landscape
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Blazers (31-24-7-6) placed fifth in the Western Conference and were dispatched from the WHL post-season in Round 1, swept in four games by the Kelowna Rockets. Blazers' majorit...
Apr 08, 2026 Blazers' majority owner Tom Gaglardi (Image Credit: CFJC Today / File Photo)
Mustangs swept by Posse in KIJHL Okanagan-Shuswap Conference Finals
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - The Williams Lake Mustangs have been eliminated from the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League (KIJHL) playoffs. The Mustangs were swept in the Okanagan-Shuswap Conference ...
Apr 08, 2026 (Image Credit: Facebook/Williams Lake Mustangs)
Goaltender Ingram turns Mammoth rejection into Oilers No. 1 role, Masterton nod
EDMONTON - Connor Ingram went from being told not to report to Utah Mammoth training camp to starting in goal for the playoff-bound Edmonton Oilers. His performance with the Oilers, where he seized th...
Apr 08, 2026
Clouston reflects on Blazers' season, talks of handling off-season uncertainty while players mull NCAA jump
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Blazers' head coach and general manager Shaun Clouston reflected on the 2025-2026 WHL campaign last weekend, speaking to CFJC during a break from exit meetings with players at Sand...
Apr 07, 2026 Tommy Lafreniere. (Image Credit: Brian Johnson Photography)
Blazers await decisions from NCAA-committed players with roster uncertainty next season
KAMLOOPS - Now that the dust has settled after being eliminated from the playoffs, the Kamloops Blazers look ahead to next season and what the roster may look like. There is uncertainty around the Wes...
Apr 06, 2026 (Image Credit: Photo Credit: CFJC Today)
District of Logan Lake assumes operations of Meadow Creek Golf Course
LOGAN LAKE, B.C. - The District of Logan Lake is assuming responsibility for the operations of the community's nearby golf course after nearly four decades of volunteer sustainability. On March 31, th...
Apr 06, 2026 Contributed. (Image Credit: District of Logan Lake)
Kamloops United begins 2026 BCPL season with defeat in Vancouver
VANCOUVER - It was a losing start to the new season for Kamloops United as they played their first games of the 2026 BC Premier League (BCPL) campaign, formerly League1 British Columbia.In men's actio...
Apr 05, 2026 (Image Credit: Vancouver Whitecaps Youth/Instagram)
