Statistically, the Thompson Blazers are the weakest team in the B.C. Hockey Major Midget League. Trevor Sprague wants his Cariboo Cougars to forget that fact.
The Cougars, who are fighting for first place in the MML, play the last-place Blazers Saturday and Sunday in Chase. The Blazers have won just one game this season (1-30-1) and are a staggering 15 points behind the next-closest team, the Kootenay Ice.
But, points don't come for free, no matter the opposition.
"It depends on what the guys want to do," said Sprague, head coach of the Cougars. "We beat them up pretty hard in P.G. (13-0 and 9-1 on Nov. 6-7). We went into those games under the understanding it was a team we couldn't take lightly. Now we're six games away from playoffs, and what are we going to do? Are we going to go in like a playoff team or are we going to go in just like it's a regular-season game?"
The Cats enter the doubleheader with a third-place record of 23-10-1. In the 11-team loop, they are just one point back of the second-place Valley West Hawks and three behind the front-running Vancouver Northwest Giants.
See The Citizen and pgcitizen.ca on Saturday for the full story.
