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Ty Halaburda's last dance
They say the playoffs are when everything changes.For Ty Halaburda, that's not quite true.Because in his world, his final season, his final stretch, his last shot at it, the playoffs don't arrive on the schedule.They arrive when he does.And this year, they're already here.A week before the WHL Playoffs officially begin...
Mar 20, 2026
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Rockets GM speaks from experience
The game has changed, but Bruce Hamilton's standard hasn't
He doesn't rush his answers.Bruce Hamilton never really has.There's a pause before he speaks, not for effect, but because he's already thought it through. Bus rides. League meetings. Years in the game. It's all in there somewhere, filed away, ready when the question comes.And when it does, the answer usually sounds sim...
Mar 19, 2026
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Winning the right to host the 04 Memorial Cup
Paul Mitchell on the night Kelowna beat the odds
More than twenty years later, Paul Mitchell can still feel the moment in his hands."My jaw hit the floor," he said. "My hand is still sore from high-fiving."In the winter of 2002, Mitchell - a longtime Kelowna lawyer - stepped into one of the biggest challenges of his career. Alongside Bill Winters,...
Mar 18, 2026
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Sick and tired of being sick and tired
Things that me me go hmm...
We all get sick. WHL broadcasters aren't immune either. But actually losing our voices? Thankfully, that doesn't happen very often.It happened to me Saturday night in Kamloops, when I planned to call the game between the Kelowna Rockets and Kamloops Blazers at Sandman Centre. I'd been nursing a cold for a few days. Wit...
Mar 16, 2026
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Rapid rise through the ranks
Derrick Martin's journey to 100 games
The road to 100 games behind a Western Hockey League bench rarely arrives in a hurry.For Kelowna Rockets head coach Derek Martin, it almost felt like a blur.Martin coached his 100th WHL game Friday night as the Rockets earned a 4-1 win over the Kamloops Blazers, a milestone that arrived less than two years after he fir...
Mar 14, 2026
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Paul Mitchell on the night Kelowna beat the odds
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Things that me me go hmm...
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