Scary as it is to believe, hockey season is just one week away.
With the cold of winter fast approaching, the BCHL-champion Prince George Spruce Kings are getting ready for it when they begin their main training camp on Friday, Aug. 23 at Rolling Mix Concrete Arena.
The team will be divided in half for daily training sessions next week on Friday from 7-9 p.m., Saturday 6-17:15 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m.-noon.
Head coach Alex Evin and his newly-hired assistant Jessie Leung will be behind the Kings bench at Rolling Mix when they start the two-game exhibition season on Tuesday, Aug. 27 against the Merritt Centennials. The Kings and Cents meet again in Merritt on Friday, Aug. 30.
The Spruce Kings open the 2019-20 season at home against the Surrey Eagles on Friday, Sept. 6. On that night they will raise the Fred Page Cup and Doyle Cup banners they won last season to the rafters.
The Prince George Cougars also start their WHL training camp on Friday, Aug. 23.
The Cats will play six preseason games, all away from home. That starts Sept. 6 in Langley against the Kamloops Blazers, and the Cougars face Vancouver the following night. On Sunday, Sept. 8 they will be in Kelowna to play the Rockets and they conclude the exhibition schedule with games Sept. 20 and 21 in Dawson Creek against the Edmonton Oil Kings.
The Cougars, under head coach and general manager Mark Lamb and his assistant Jason Smith, open their 26th season in Prince George on Sept. 20 at CN Centre against the Vancouver Giants.
