KAMLOOPS - Nearly 4.5 million pairs of eyeballs saw the City of Kamloops in all its glory during the Memorial Cup.In a news release issued Thursday (June 22), the Canadian Hockey League says 4.5 million viewers tuned into TSN and RDS between May 26 and June 4 for the Memorial Cup, including an audience of 687,000 for t...

KAMLOOPS - It was a thoughtful Shaun Clouston who met with the media shortly after the Blazers were knocked out of the Memorial Cup. After a pressure-filled season, the Blazers' head coach and general manager seemed at ease with how it had all played out."From a coaching standpoint, the mindset is you get up in th...

KAMLOOPS - January 11th, 2020: in the midst of a 7-2 drubbing of the Kelowna Rockets - the second Blazers win over Kelowna in as many nights - the Rockets decided to take out some frustrations on a few of the Blazers' young guys. Ethan Brandwood, Daylan Kuefler and Caedan Bankier were out on the ice for the line brawl ...

KAMLOOPS - With the Memorial Cup now in the rearview mirror, businesses throughout the community are settling back down from a wild 10 days of sales. Restaurants and bars did especially well during the tournament, with patrons flooding into Kamloops from across Canada and the United States to watch their favourite team...

In the final installment of our Memorial Moments series, Earl Seitz sits down to speak with one of the most successful players to ever pull on a Kamloops Blazers jersey, Ryan Huska - one of only four players in history who have won three Memorial Cups. All of our Memorial Moments segments can be found here.

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - William Rousseau had the tournament's first shutout with 32 saves and the Quebec Remparts defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 5-0 on Sunday to claim the Memorial Cup title. Tournament MVP James Malatesta, Vsevolod Komarov, Kassim Gaudet, Zachary Bolduc and Charles Savoie scored for Quebec, which won its ...

KAMLOOPS - The Memorial Cup Final in Kamloops Sunday afternoon pit the WHL Champion Seattle Thunderbirds against the QMJHL Champ Quebec Remparts. For Seattle, they were in pursuit of their first Mem Cup title in team history, in their first ever final appearance, while Quebec was looking to return to the promise land f...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Connor Bedard made Canadian Hockey League history on Saturday. The presumed No. 1 pick of this year's NHL draft won the CHL Top Prospect, Top Scorer, and David Branch Player of the Year awards. It's the first time since the Top Scorer award was introduced in 1994 that a player has won all three in a si...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Jared Davidson credited his upbringing for the no-quit mentality he possesses. "For me, it goes back to just the way I was raised with my parents," said the Seattle Thunderbirds forward. "They gave me that no-quit mentality, no matter what I was doing. "If it was in school, hockey o...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Kyle Crnkovic scored his tournament-leading fifth goal and added an assist as the Seattle Thunderbirds topped the Peterborough Petes 4-1 on Friday to book their ticket to the Memorial Cup final. Brad Lambert, Colton Dach and Nico Myatovic had the other goals for Seattle, which got 27 saves from Thomas ...

KAMLOOPS - It's hard to believe that one week has passed since the opening game of the 2023 Memorial Cup. As the weekend draws near and the Championship game looms Sunday, visitors to our city are impressed with the event and the folks making it happen."It's been just phenomenal," one Peterborough Petes suppo...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The turning point that led to the Quebec Remparts' dominant season dates back just over a year. Head coach Patrick Roy pointed to last season's Quebec Major Junior Hockey League playoff semifinal loss to eventual league champion Shawinigan Cataractes on June 1. Quebec fell 3-2 in the five-game series a...

He's a man who needs no introduction, certainly not at Broadcast Centre. He was the radio play-by-play voice of the Kamloops Junior Oilers in the 1983-84 season. Today, his voice is still heard at every Kamloops Blazers home game as the in-rink public address announcer. In this episode, Earl sits down with Bill O'Donov...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - J.R. Avon scored the game-winning goal 10:54 into overtime and the Peterborough Petes beat the Kamloops Blazers 5-4 on Thursday, earning a semifinal berth at the Memorial Cup. Connor Lockhart, Brennan Othmann, Samuel Mayer and Brian Zanetti had the others for Ontario Hockey League champion Peterboroug...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Thomas Milic has a cool, calm presence to him that's been evident both on and off the ice. And the Seattle Thunderbirds star has used it to shine bright at the Memorial Cup. The six-foot, 179-pound goaltender has paced the tournament in goals-against average (2.02) and save percentage (.923) across thr...

Without them, the game wouldn't be the same. The fans in the stands create the atmosphere that can fuel the players on the ice. Back in 1992, the Memorial Cup final was held down in Seattle, Wash., where a mob of Kamloops Blazers fans took over the arena. Two fans in particular have gone in Blazers history thanks to th...

KAMLOOPS - Blazers head Coach and GM Shaun Clouston's words from Wednesday's pre-game media availability were somewhat prophetic."We know how we don't want to play and we know how we do want to play right from this tournament."Unfortunately, the effort fell into the first category, as the Blazers struggled fo...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Kyle Crnkovic and Jared Davidson each had a goal and two assists for the Seattle Thunderbirds in Wednesday's 6-1 win over the Kamloops Blazers to reach the Memorial Cup semifinal. Lucas Ciona, Jordan Gustafson, Luke Prokop and Colton Dach also scored for the Western Hockey League champion T-Birds. Sea...

KAMLOOPS - The final round-robin game of the Memorial Cup goes tonight with an all-Western Hockey League showdown. The host Blazers take on the Seattle Thunderbirds in the contest. A guaranteed spot in the semifinal awaits the winner, while the loser must play in a tiebreaker against the Peterborough Petes to stay aliv...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The Seattle Thunderbirds are looking to continue using the big-game experience they possess to their advantage at the Memorial Cup. Dylan Guenther is among six players on the Thunderbirds squad who led Canada to a world junior championship gold medal back in January - where Guenther had a two-goal outi...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The Peterborough Petes avoided elimination from the Memorial Cup playoff picture on Tuesday night by beating the Quebec Remparts 4-2 at the Sandman Centre. The desperate Petes, who dropped their first two games of the four-team, 10-day tournament, scored twice in a span of 2 1/2 minutes midway through ...

KAMLOOPS - By most fans, they are despised even more than the opposing team. But as much as the crowd may think the referees are against their team, the on-ice officials are striving for perfection in a league of their own. "They want to put the best guys on the ice for every game and the guys that are the most ca...

KAMLOOPS - In the spring of 1980, a peewee team from Kamloops won the BC Provincial hockey championship. On that team, a young Mark Recchi toiled at centre ice, dreams of greatness in his head."You always dream big when you're a kid playing street hockey and playing on the ice and having some fun. You always have ...

He never had a chance to hoist the Memorial Cup, but his name is synonymous with junior hockey in Kamloops - after all, his name is on the street signs outside of Sandman Centre. In this episode, Earl sits down with Hockey Hall-of-Famer and Blazers co-owner Mark Recchi. All of our Memorial Moments segments can be found...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The first three games of the 2023 Memorial Cup championship produced 32 goals. So when Theo Rochette of the Quebec Remparts scored 54 seconds into Monday's fourth preliminary round game at the Sandman Centre, fans expected there'd be much more to come. Thanks to William Rousseau's 35 saves in Quebec's ...

KAMLOOPS - The dream of scoring a winning goal in overtime to clinch a Memorial Cup is over for Kamloops Blazers defenceman Kyle Masters. Masters was sent heavily into the boards in the third period of the Blazers 10 - 2 victory over the Peterborough Petes Sunday (May 28) night. Masters remained on the ice for several ...

KAMLOOPS - It's just another day at the office for Howie Borrow. While he doesn't have an official title, he's worked at the Hockey Hall of Fame for close to two decades, is a part-time Keeper of the Cup and might just have one of the best jobs going."There's so much history here," Borrow says. "For me, ...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Kamloops Blazers head coach and general manager Shaun Clouston says defenceman Kyle Masters has been released from hospital and will miss the rest of the Memorial Cup with a lower-body injury. Clouston updated Masters's status a day after the 20-year-old Edmonton native was taken off the ice on a stret...