This week we profile Dan Rogers - a Vancouver Island sports legend who excelled in both hockey and baseball. He also holds two unique...

Rod Brind’Amour and Kent Manderville have a lot in common. They grew up on Vancouver Island, played for the Notre Dame Hounds, earned...

Going into the 1978/79 season, the Victoria Cougars were seen as a team on the rise. The club had a talented pool of young prospects led...

In Part One, we outlined the sequence of events in 1982 leading to the Nanaimo Clippers moving to Esquimalt. Going into the season, the...

I never planned on writing a blog about the Esquimalt Buccaneers. But I became intrigued as I looked through old papers and archives....

“He could have scored a hundred plus goals for us had he stayed” -Victoria Cougars coach Wayne Naka Tony Hand is one of the most...

The Cougars' inaugural year in 1971-72 saw a mid-season coaching change and a revolving door of new players. Thirty-nine different...

While cleaning an old drawer, I came across this 1979 Polaroid of my parents and me in a Vancouver hotel room. This picture is taken just...

We conclude our in-depth series on the Victoria Cougars at the World Juniors with Russ Courtnall as he captained the 1984 Canadian team....

Five Victoria Cougars have represented Canada at the annual IIHF World Junior Championship. Our three-part series began with Curt Fraser...

CURT FRASER AND GARY LUPUL The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Junior Championship is held annually in December and...

It is the dream of every kid who has ever held a hockey stick to play in a National Hockey League game. 388 individuals have achieved...

Did you know that Chelios and Recchi both played for the Victoria Cougars? In this edition of Bloodlines, we look at two Cougars alumni...

Photo: The Daily Colonist 1976-77 was a rebuilding year for the Cougars as first-year rookies made up half the roster. Even though...

Geordie Robertson is one of the greatest Victoria-born hockey players to have ever skated for the Cougars. A gifted playmaker, he owns...

1977 marked a new beginning for the Victoria Cougars franchise. Pat Ginnell, Owner/Coach/GM, left the Cougars and sold his majority...

Brent Gogol is one of the toughest players ever to skate in the Western Hockey League (WHL). He only played 105 games over three seasons...

Paul Kariya is one of the greatest hockey players to come from British Columbia. In his 15 year playing career, he scored 989 points in...

You knew it was going to be a strange year when the mayor of Victoria climbed into the Cougars bench to demand coach Pat Ginnell stop the...

The 2020 Western Hockey League (WHL) bantam draft took place on April 22nd with 233 players selected. Two of the picks had fathers who...