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Tate Olson was all covered up in his Vancouver Canucks gear when he took his first strides in his first NHL training camp Friday at CN Centre but he had to be pinching himself a few times to make sure it wasn't just a dream.

Henrik Sedin knows the Vancouver Canucks are B.C.'s team. He learned that 15 years ago, not long after he joined the team for his first training camp with the Canucks in his native Sweden.

The Prince George Cougars have cleared the logjam in the crease.

Vancouver Canucks training camp, at CN Centre Line combinations Group 1 Forwards 47 Sven Baertschi, 21 Brandon Sutter, 17 Radim Vrbata 20 Chris Higgins, 50 Bo Horvat, 36 Jannik Hansen 50 Brendan Gaunce, 24 Adam Cracknell, 65 Alex Grenier 78 John Kurt

Still recovering from hip surgery and walking with a cane, Willie Desjardins confirmed Thursday on doctor's orders he won't be coming to Prince George for the Vancouver Canucks training camp.

We were supposed to be studying for exams. We ended up at a Vancouver Canucks game instead. It was a classic case of procrastination. But hey, we couldn't really be blamed.

Humbling. Embarrassing. Demoralizing. All adjectives apply to the Prince George Spruce Kings to describe how they felt after getting pasted twice by the Wenatchee Wild in their home-opening weekend.

The College Heights Cougars will be in Calgary starting today to begin the high school volleyball season. The Cougars senior boys and junior A boys teams are entered in the Calgary Dino Invitational tournaments at the University of Calgary.

The UNBC Timberwolves learned a valuable lesson last weekend on the men's soccer field in Victoria. No lead is too safe in the Canada West Conference, especially against a team ranked in the top-10 in the CIS.

And then there were three. The Prince George Cougars are down to three goalies after they reassigned 19-year-old Patrick Gora Thursday to the Camrose Kodiaks of the Alberta Junior Hockey League.