Vancouver businessman and Kamloops Blazers owner Tom Gaglardi's bid was the only one submitted, clearing the way for him to enter the final stages of taking over ownership of the team.

The Kamloops Blazers became the WHL's second dynasty in the early 1990s when they won both the WHL Championship and Memorial Cup three times in four years between 1992 and 1995.

Kitchener would face off against Oshawa in the 1990 Memorial Cup, and also rematch against their opponents in the 1984 tournament, both of whom had new names, the Kamloops Junior Oilers were now the Kamloops Blazers, and the Laval Voisins were now the Laval Titan.

The 1990 Memorial Cup tournament opened up on May 5, 1990, with Kitchener facing the Kamloops Blazers.

Niedermayer was drafted in the first round of the 1991 NHL Entry Draft by the New Jersey Devils with the third overall selection from the Kamloops Blazers of the Western Hockey League ( WHL ).

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As a junior, Iginla was a member of two Memorial Cup-winning teams with the Kamloops Blazers, and was named the Western Hockey League's Player of the Year in 1996.

Iginla played three years with the Kamloops Blazers of the Western Hockey League ( WHL ).

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Doan began his career in the WHL with the Kamloops Blazers in 1992, and would go on to spend three season with the team.

In honour of the Millionaires as the city's only Stanley Cup-winning team, the Vancouver Giants, a major junior Western Hockey League ( WHL ) team, wore Millionaires jerseys during their November 21, 2008 game against the Kamloops Blazers on the team's " Stanley Cup Legends Night ".

Taking a chance, Hitchcock submitted his credentials to the new owners of the WHL's Kamloops Blazers, Gary Cooper and Colin Day.

Recchi played his junior hockey for the Kamloops Blazers of the Western Hockey League.

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He was a first round draft pick of the Colorado Avalanche, selected 19th overall at the 1998 NHL Entry Draft, but was traded to Calgary while still playing junior hockey for the Kamloops Blazers of the Western Hockey League ( WHL ).

The Kamloops Blazers of the Western Hockey League ( WHL ) selected Regehr with their first pick, 17th overall, in the 1995 WHL Bantam Draft.

Renney began his coaching career in the major junior Western Hockey League ( WHL ), capturing a Memorial Cup in his two-year stint with the Kamloops Blazers.

Renney began his career behind the bench in the major junior ranks with the Kamloops Blazers of the Western Hockey League ( WHL ) in 1990 – 91.

The Thunderbirds defeated the Tri-City Americans 5 games to 2 in the division semifinals, before losing to the eventual Western Hockey League Champion Kamloops Blazers 5 games to 1 in the division finals.

Coming off a 1994 Memorial Cup championship with the Kamloops Blazers of the WHL, Baumgartner was chosen by the Washington Capitals in the first round, 10th overall of the 1994 NHL Entry Draft.

He is currently head coach of the WHL Kamloops Blazers, after being hired for that position in November 2009.

The first goal in franchise history was scored by Tyson Mulock in a loss to the Kamloops Blazers.

After defeating the Kamloops Blazers in the first round, the Giants lost in the second round to the expansion team Everett Silvertips in six games.

* Kamloops ( Aberdeen Mall ) 1981 — originally converted to a Zellers store ( Zellers has since moved to new larger location nearby ), currently a new Sears store ( the Aberdeen Mall Woodward's store replaced the original ( 1963 ) Kamloops downtown store in 1981, which is now the British Columbia Lottery Corporation headquarters building ) former Food Floor adjacent is now a Future Shop & Sport Chek.

Kamloops Airport currently has two runways.

He is currently an assistant coach, along with fellow ex-Oiler Geoff Smith, with the Kamloops Blazers.

The Rangers and 67's would both play in the Memorial Cup, as well as the Kamloops Junior Oilers and the Laval Voisins featuring Mario Lemieux.

During that game vs. Brandon, there was an online report that said that Milan Kostolny scored the winning goal, but in fact after video research, the goal was scored by Matthew Ball, off of Wade Redden's foot Detroit then started the final game vs Kamloops shorthanded, playing without Shayne McCosh ( broken wrist ) and Bryan Berard, trying to play with a bad charley horse.

A number of the TRU players also play in the summer with the Kamloops Heat of the Pacific Coast Soccer League.

Iginla made his NHL debut in the 1996 Stanley Cup Playoffs, as he was signed to a contract and flown to Calgary immediately after his junior season ended in Kamloops.

The HarbourLynx 40m catamaran ( previously called the Philippine Kvaerner Fjellstrand Singapore Flying Cat ) was built by Fjellstrand A. S. in 1996 ; after being laid up in the Philippines for two years, the catamaran was shipped to a Victoria shipyard for refurbishment and upgraded to meet Transport Canada regulations while the engines were refurbished by Detroit Diesel in Kamloops.

* Ducks, original name of the Monte Creek area near Kamloops, named after the first homesteader there, Jacob Ducks

The Arena is located on Mark Recchi Way, named after the NHL player whose hometown and home team ( Blazers ) is in Kamloops.

:* – Canadian Pacific Railway commemorates the contributions of Chinese railroad workers who helped build the railroad by renaming an interchange in Kamloops, British Columbia, after one such worker, Cheng Ging Butt.

Barkerville, once the largest town north of Kamloops, is now a year-round Provincial Museum.

It includes the communities of Lac La Hache, Forest Grove, Lone Butte, Horse Lake, Bridge Lake, 70 Mile House, Canim Lake, and 108 Mile Ranch, and is the largest residential centre between Kamloops and Williams Lake.

East of the town is Cache Creek ( 83 km ), Clinton ( 102 km ), Kamloops ( 167 km ), and Prince George ( 518 km ).

* Kamloops is home to Western Canada Theatre.

The portion of Highway 5 south of Kamloops is also known as the Coquihalla Highway, while its northern portion is known as the Southern Yellowhead Highway.

South of Kamloops, Highway 5 is known as the Coquihalla Highway ( colloquially " the Coke "), and is a 186 km ( 116 mi )- long freeway, varying between four and six lanes and having a posted speed limit of 110 km / h ( 68 mph ).

Highway 5A, the Princeton-Kamloops Highway, is Highway 5's pre-1986 alignment south of Kamloops.

Thompson Rivers University is a comprehensive university located in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.

While the main campus is located in Kamloops, there is a second campus in Williams Lake.

On July 1, 2007, all TRU, Open Learning ( TRU-OL ) operations relocated from Burnaby to the BC Centre for Open Learning building, which is located on the Kamloops campus.

The shield is composed of a sunrise representative of the Kamloops region, which averages over 2, 000 hours of sunshine annually, and of the rising sun of enlightenment traditionally associated with higher education.

TRU is located next to the City of Kamloops ' Hillside Stadium and Tournament Capital Center, which students can use for a fee of $ 420 per year.

Sun Peaks Resort is an alpine ski resort located 50 km northeast of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.

Kamloops Lake in British Columbia, Canada is situated on the Thompson River just west of Kamloops.

The community of Savona is located at the west end of the lake, with the city of Kamloops located a few miles east of the head of the lake at the confluence of the North and South Thompson Rivers.

Kamloops Lake is also a widening and deepening of the Thompson River which enters at the east end and exits at the west end.

Because Kamloops Lake is fed by both the North Thompson River and the South Thompson River ( the South Thompson River drains from the very warm Shuswap Lakes ), Kamloops Lake is a very warm lake and is quickly becoming a popular boating and recreational area.