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League
  
Western Hockey League

Home arena
  
Sandman Centre

General manager
  
Stu MacGregor

Location
  
Kamloops, Canada

Conference
  
Western Conference

Division
  
B.C.

Colours
  
Blue, white and orange

Arena
  
Sandman Centre

Founded
  
1981

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City
  
Kamloops, British Columbia

Owners
  
Shane Doan, Jarome Iginla, Mark Recchi, Darryl Sydor, Tom Gaglardi (majority)

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The Kamloops Blazers are a major junior ice hockey team currently members of the B.C. Division of the Western Conference in the Western Hockey League (WHL). The team is based out of Kamloops, British Columbia, and plays their home games at the Sandman Centre.

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History

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Their franchise was granted in 1966 as the Estevan Bruins in Estevan, Saskatchewan. In 1971, it moved to New Westminster, British Columbia, and was known as the New Westminster Bruins. It then moved to Kamloops in 1981 and were known as the Junior Oilers until 1984, when they were given their present name, the Kamloops Blazers. The team moved from the Kamloops Memorial Arena to the new Riverside Coliseum, since renamed to the Interior Savings Centre, in 1992.

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The team has won the most Memorial Cups of any team in the WHL with five, two as New Westminster (1977 and 1978) and three as Kamloops (1992, 1994 and 1995). The Canadian Hockey League (CHL) record is seven, held by the Ontario Hockey League (OHL)'s Toronto Marlboros, now known the Guelph Storm. In addition, since moving to Kamloops, the Blazers have missed the WHL playoffs just twice in its 30-season history.

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The franchise began in 1946 as the Humboldt Indians of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) and moved to Estevan to become the Bruins in 1957. The franchise has won the President's Cup a record 11 times, once in Estevan, four times in a row in New Westminster and six times since relocating to Kamloops. The Blazers hosted the 1995 Memorial Cup, although they went in the "front door" by also winning the WHL championship that year.

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Notable head coaches in the history of the Kamloops Blazers include Ken Hitchcock, Tom Renney, Don Hay, Marc Habscheid and Dean Evason. On May 2, 2014, the team announced Don Hay would return to his hometown for a second tenure as the Blazers' head coach.

The team was featured as a plot element in a book called Blazer Drive by Sigmund Brouwer.

Season-by-season record

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Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime losses, SOL = Shootout losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against

WHL Championship history

  • 1983–84: Win, 4–3 vs. Regina
  • 1984–85: Loss, 0–4 vs. Prince Albert
  • 1985–86: Win, 4–1 vs. Medicine Hat
  • 1987–88: Loss, 2–4 vs. Medicine Hat
  • 1989–90: Win, 4–1 vs. Lethbridge
  • 1991–92: Win, 4–3 vs. Saskatoon
  • 1993–94: Win, 4–3 vs. Saskatoon
  • 1994–95: Win, 4–2 vs. Brandon
  • 1998–99: Loss, 1–4 vs. Calgary

    • Memorial Cup finals history

  • 1992 Memorial Cup – Win, 5–4 vs. Sault Ste. Marie
  • 1994 Memorial Cup – Win, 5–3 vs. Laval
  • 1995 Memorial Cup – Win, 8–2 vs. Detroit

    • Current roster

    Updated January 26, 2017.

    NHL alumni

    Totals include those who played for the franchise as the Kamloops Junior Oilers.

    References

    Kamloops Blazers Wikipedia
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