Kamloops Blazers
Blazers host Food Bank Night and Teddy Bear Toss Night
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Blazers will host their annual Food Bank and Teddy Bear Toss nights this Friday and Saturday against the Portland Winterhawks and the Medicine Hat Tigers. Friday, Dec. 4, is Food Bank Night presented by Cooper’s Foods as the Blazers host the Winterhawks. Fans are asked to bring a non-perishable food item...
Blazers host Breast Cancer Night and Blue Jays special
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Blazers will be hosting the Calgary Hitmen on Friday, Oct. 23 for the annual Safeway Breast Cancer Night. The Blazers will be wearing pink laces and the first 2,500 people in the doors will receive a free Kamloops Blazers pink tote bag. Fans are encouraged to dress up in pink on...
Kelowna and Kamloops well represented on Canada Russia Series roster
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - Two Kamloops natives and two Kelowna Rockets will be playing for Team WHL in the 2015 Canadian Hockey League Canada Russia Series next month. Kamloops natives Ryan Gropp, Seattle Thunderbirds, and Joe Hicketts, Victoria Royals, both made the cut, as did Kelowna Rockets teammates Rourke Chartier of Saskatoon and Nick Merkley of Calgary....
Three Blazers off to NHL training camps
KAMLOOPS – The Kamloops Blazers have three players from their roster that will attend National Hockey League training camps over the next few weeks. Goaltender Connor Ingram is a free agent invited to the Detroit Red Wings prospect camp. He will play at the 2015 NHL Prospect Tournament in Traverse City, Michigan from Sept. 11...
NHL assistant coach, Kamloops Blazer owner in jail on drunk driving charges
SON WAS IN VEHICLE WHILE DRIVING WITH BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL OF .3 FRIDLEY, MN — One of the Kamloops Blazers owners is in jail facing charges for driving under the influence with a 0.30 blood alcohol content reading in Minnesota Thursday evening. According to a complaint filed by Fridley Police Department Officer Erik Johnson in...
Blazers in the community this month
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Blazers will be attending some upcoming community events as some players arrive back to the River City this weekend. Thursday, Aug. 13, 18-year-old forward Nick Chyzowski and Mascot Digger will be at the Aberdeen Dairy Queen for DQ Miracle Treat Day from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Kamloops Blazers Hockey School...
Interior Savings Centre era over, arena gets new name
KAMLOOPS - After more than 10 years as the Interior Savings Centre the arena next to Riverside Park will now be known as The Sandman Centre. The Blazers, along with the City of Kamloops and the Sandman Hotel Group, announced a 10-year naming-rights partnership today, July 29. The arena will continue to host all Blazers...
Blazers hockey school instructors announced
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Blazers have confirmed all eight of their player instructors for 2015 Hockey School which runs from Aug. 17 to 21 at Interior Savings Centre. Player instructors include Ryan Rehill, Matt Revel, Deven Sideroff, Connor Ingram, Dawson Davidson, Matthew Campese, Nick Chyzowski and Nolan Kneen. Matt Revel and Deven Sideroff will be...
Blazers sign first pick in 2015 WHL Bantam Draft
KAMLOOPS – The Kamloops Blazers have signed their first selection in the 2015 Western Hockey League Bantam Draft, Jackson Shepard, to a standard WHL contract. Shepard was chosen 23rd overall by the Blazers. Shepard is listed at 5’8” and 155 lbs. He suited up this past season with the North Shore Winter Club Bantam AAA...
Chyzowski goes in first round of WHL bantam draft
BLAZERS PICK UP TWO PLAYERS IN SECOND ROUND KAMLOOPS – The Western Hockey League bantam draft is underway and Ryan Chyzowski of Kamloops was one of only 21 players to be picked up in the first round. The 6’ forward was picked up by Medicine Hat 17th overall after Portland passed on their pick. Chyzowski's...
Blazers sign goaltender Dylan Ferguson
KAMLOOPS – The Kamloops Blazers have signed 1998 born goaltender Dylan Ferguson to a standard Western Hockey League education contract. Ferguson was selected by the Blazers in the eighth round of the 2013 WHL Bantam Draft. Ferguson, who will turn 17 on Sept. 20, is from Lantzville, B.C. He has played the past two seasons...
Billets for the season, Blazers family for life
KAMLOOPS - Finding people a place to call home, rather than a place to crash, is Kerry Rubel’s speciality. Arranging billet homes for players on the Kamloops Blazers team is a family-learned practice. Her late mother Doris did it for 40 years. To make sure every Blazer gets a safe spot Rubel screens potential families...
Three Blazers crack NHL Central Scouting rankings
KAMLOOPS - The National Hockey League Central Scouting rankings are out for the 2015 draft and three Blazers have made the list this year. Deven Sideroff, 17, sits at 134th of North American skaters. The 5’11”, 171 lb forward put up 17 goals and 25 assists in 64 games this season. The Summerland native was...
Blazers player cracks WHL all-star team
KAMLOOPS - It’s the end of the regular season in the Western Hockey League and though the Kamloops Blazers did not make the playoffs, one player still made the all-star team. The all-star teams along with the 2015 WHL Awards finalists were named Wednesday, March 25, with awards set to be handed out May 6....
Blazers season ends; players awarded
KAMLOOPS - It was a strong win to finish out the regular season but it was not enough to lift the Kamloops Blazers to a playoff spot. With more than 5,000 fans in attendance, the Blazers beat the Prince George Cougars 5-2 at home to finish out the 2014-15 season. A win by the Tri-City...