Todd Bredo and the 100 Mile House Wranglers are provincial junior B hockey champions.
Bredo, an 18-year-old defenceman from Prince George, held off the host Victoria Cougars and helped the Wranglers post a come-from-behind 5-4 win in Sunday's Cyclone Taylor Cup final.
Brett Harris, a former Cariboo Cougar teammate of Bredo's, keyed Sunday's victory with two goals and two assists. Harris's second goal, an unassisted effort 14:02 into the third period, tied the game 4-4. He combined with another former Cariboo Cougar, linemate Tyler Povelofskie, to set up Ryan Friesen's game-winning goal on a Wranglers' power play with 55 seconds left in regulation time.
The win locks up a berth for 100 Mile House in the Keystone Cup Western Canadian championship, a six-team round-robin tournament, April 14-17 in Regina.
Wranglers goalie Zane Steeves was named tournament MVP. Steeves made 49 saves in a 2-1 win over the Mission City Outlaws on Friday. 100 Mile House started the tournament with a 4-2 loss Thursday to Victoria, the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League champions. On Saturday, the Wranglers defeated Campbell River 4-3.
The Wranglers won the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League title March 31, beating the Kimberley Dynamiters in a five-game series. 100 Mile House also won the 52-game regular season title with a 33-12-3-4 record.
Two other Cariboo Cougar alumni – defenceman Kolten Carpenter and forward Alex Hanson – play for the Wranglers.
Bredo started the season in the Alberta Junior Hockey League with the Okotoks Oilers and was traded to the Kindersley Klippers of the Saskatchewan Junior League. He joined the Wranglers in November. The six-foot-three, 200-pound Bredo collected three goals and 12 points in 33 regular-season games in the KIJHL.
