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Mired in a four-game slump, Prince George Cougars Head Coach and General Manager Mark Lamb decided to shake things up.
After putting the forward lines into a blender, the Cats regained their offensive stroke on Monday, defeating the Victoria Royals 4-1 from Sandman Centre in Kamloops.
“We really worked hard over the past couple days and after we lost that last game we had meetings to figure it out and we worked on some things and the guys bought in and worked hard.”
“We changed some lines around and that happens all the during the year to change things around and for the players it’s something fresh too and it worked,” said Lamb.
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Kamloops Blazers forward Logan Stankoven has been named an alternate captain for Canada at the 2021 IIHF U18 World Championship. Hockey Canada announced its leadership group for the event on Saturday morning ahead of pre-tournament action.
Stankoven, an 18-year-old product of Kamloops, B.C., is one of 10 WHL players representing Canada at the annual event, which is scheduled to officially get underway beginning April 26 in Frisco and Plano, Texas.
A 5-foot-8, 170-pound forward, Stankoven has been a goal scoring machine since making his WHL debut with his hometown Blazers in 2019-20. Originally selected fifth overall in the first round of the 2018 WHL Draft, Stankoven recorded 29 goals and 48 points in 59 games as a rookie during the 2019-20 WHL campaign, before adding another seven goals and 10 points in six games during the shortened 2020-21 WHL regular season. Over the course of 72 career WHL regular season games, Stankoven has registered 59 p