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The Cariboo Cougars in the 2017-18 B.C. Hockey Major Midget League season enjoyed team success and reached the league championship series for the fourth consecutive year, losing in a two-game final two weekends ago to the Fraser Valley Thunderbirds.

Remember what happened to the Prince George Spruce Kings in last year's playoffs? In what became one of the most memorable first-round series in their BCHL history, the fourth-place Spruce Kings (25-27-4-2) took on the regular-season champion Wenatch

Town Toyota Centre, the home of the Wild in Wenatchee has been wrecking yard for visiting B.C. Hockey League teams. The Wild have developed a ruthless habit of hanging losses on their visitors.

In the wake of the Humboldt Broncos bus tragedy and the death of former Prince George Cougars captain Brock Hirsche, the heart of the hockey world is aching.

Gold Coast, gold medal. That's the goal for high jumper Alyx Treasure when she walks out in front of the crowd at Carrara Stadium in Gold Coast, Australia on Saturday morning (9:25 p.m. PT) to compete in her first Commonwealth Games.

The cobwebs of her fifth concussion have diminished, but the reminders still linger inside the head of snowboard cross racer Meryeta O'Dine.

The Roll-A-Dome is officially dead. It's been renamed the Prince George Dome and it will continue to serve the same function it has for the past 66 years - providing Prince George a community centre for sports, entertainment and recreation.

Ted CLARKE Citizen staff Growing up in a clan of curlers, Heather Bethune somehow resisted the urge to pick up a broom and toss stones on the ice. She’d never played until this year.

Boese wins Kelly Cup in third decade of entry

Brock Hirsche, a former captain of the Prince George Cougars, has died of cancer at age 26. The Lethbridge native played parts of five seasons with the Cougars until his Western Hockey League career as a centre was cut short by shoulder injuries.