The Blaze - With Jon Keen & Friends

The Blaze - With Jon Keen & Friends for Rivershore Golf Links.   Great guest this week! Former WHL Official Chris Crich - the winner of the last two WHL Official of the Year award.  He looks back on his time in the league, Memorial Cup send off, how the Sandman Centre was a special place, the tiebreaker game he reffed in 2019 Blazers vs Kelowna, managing a game, and his favourite characters on...

The Blaze - Episode 9, season 2 - for Rivershore Golf Links breaks down who's going to be buyers at this year's WHL trade deadline.  Who's in? Who's out?  We are seven weeks away from WHL Deadline Day.  We'll take a look at that and predict who will be making the moves. Our special guest this week is former Blazer d-men Micki Dupont.  After a 19 year pro career, Micki is back in Calgary coaching a...

Episode 8 - for Rivershore Golf Links, features special guest Connor Zary.   The former Blazer (2017-2021) joins us to talk about finally breaking into the NHL with the Calgary Flames.  What he used as motiviation to finally get there, scoring in his debut and what's next.  Zary was part of several great moments with the Blazers.  He will talk about his time here, the crazy tiebreaker game against...

Great show this week! The Blaze - for Rivershore Golf Links, sits down with the man of the hour for the Toronto Maple Leafs Fraser Minten.  How did he hear the news? What was NHL life like for a month?  Fraser takes us behind the scenes after being re-assigned by the Maple Leafs back to the Blazers. The newly named captain of the Blazers sits down in studio with us. The Blazers also added a defens...

The Blaze - presented by Rivershore Golf Links - takes a deep dive into the mental aspect of the game and the Blazers this week.   Their Mental Performance Coach Bob Wilkie is our guest.  He has quite the story and background in the game.  He'll get into the 1986 Broncos Bus Crash - which has shaped him into the person he is today.  He talks about his work with the Blazers and what they focus on....

The Blaze - presented by Rivershore Golf Links - has the latest on the Blazer season and an in-depth look into the team. -Our featured guest this week is graduated 20 year-old Daylan Kuefler.  After getting off-season shoulder surgery, Kuefler continues his recovery process in Bridgeport in the AHL.  Kuefler recalls his rise from a 10th round WHL bantam pick in 2017 to signing an NHL contract.  Ho...

The Blaze - With Jon Keen & Friends is presented by Rivershore Golf Links. Lots packed into the show this week: The Blazers are down to two goaltenders after the reassignment of Matthew Kieper after failing to find a trade partner.  We will have a breakdown of that move and look at the goaltending situation moving forward with Dylan Ernst & Jesse Sanche. It's Minten Mania in Toronto.  Pare...

The Blaze - For Rivershore Golf Links - Episode 3!   We are officially on Fraser Minten watch with the Maple Leafs making noise like they might keep him for the NHL season - rather than return him to Junior.  We will watch how this all plays out have our take on the situation.  We will lead off with that. What happens next? The Wenatchee Wild come to Kamloops for the 1st time on Sunday.  Their rad...

The Blaze - Presented by Rivershore Golf Links - is back with a loaded show. Blazers Majority Owner/Dallas Stars Owner Tom Gaglardi stops by to do a state of the union.  His thoughts on the Memorial Cup, this year's Blazers roster, Logan Stankoven as a potential opening night Dallas Star and if the Blazers will see F Matthew Seminoff back for his 20 year-old season. Lots of topics covered in our a...

The Blaze is Back! - It's season two with a new title sponsor - Rivershore Golf Links.  We preview the season ahead and take a look at the roster and breakdown expectations in an extended interview with Head Coach / GM Shaun Clouston.  We go in-depth and talk about his summer, the plan to push and develop a younger roster, and the plan to recoup draft picks moving forward.   We have our regular fe...

It's the Season one finale! Our wrap up episode talking all things Memorial Cup and the season that was.  Jon shares his personal highlights from the season, and the tournament in Kamloops.  Hear from Shaun Clouston on what's next and his thoughts on the event.   Some fun was had with Patrick Roy this past week.  The Quebec Remparts Head Coach had some back & forths with Jon during the media s...

It's our Memorial Cup Preview Podcast! - For Warner Rentals We will learn more about the teams coming to Kamloops - namely the Peterborough Petes and the Quebec Remparts.  We will take you back to the opening Coaches Conference Wednesday night and preview the first two games of the tournament. Patrick Roy, Rob Wilson and Matt O'Dette talk about their first opponent.  This will be Blazers Associate...

Loaded show this week for Warner Rentals.  We recap the Western Conference Championship series with Seattle and my take on where it may have been won and lost.  Dylan Sydor gives his thoughts after he left it all out there in game six.  Have you heard of JP Hurlbert? The character 2008-born Texan was the Blazers 1st round pick in the US Priority Draft this week. He's regarded as one of the top 200...

We record and post on a playoff gameday ahead of game four - Blazers & Thunderbirds from the Sandman Centre.  We have the latest in this series and around the team coming off a big game three win on home ice.  Get up-to-speed ahead of tonight's face-off We check in on the OHL Playoffs with London Knights broadcaster Mike Stubbs.  Four teams left... the Knights and Sarnia tied 2-2 in the series...

The WHL's Conference Finals are here... it's the Kamloops Blazers and the Seattle Thunderbirds in the West left standing just like everyone thought.  We'll preview the series ahead and look back on a second round sweep of the Portland Winterhawks. Our featured guest this week is former Blazer/Junior Oiler goaltender turned NHL Colour Commentator Daryl "Razor" Reaugh. The entertaining, award winnin...

The Blaze - Episode 30 is LIVE! Our weekly podcast presented by Warner Rentals updates the 2nd round series after three games with the Portland Winterhawks.  Get the latest from Portland ahead of Game Four from the VMC We roll the clock back to 1994 in the Audio Vault in the 94 Memorial Cup in Laval. Also, we check in with Christopher Ladowski with Hydra Power Wash. We take our weekly look around...

The Blaze - For Warner Rentals, gets you prepped for the Blazers and Portland Winterhawks in round two of the WHL Playoffs.    Blazers Associate Coach Don Hay has coached on both sides including back in the 90's where the two teams played some heated series against eachother.   He previews the series and talks about some of the old battles. Portland broadcaster Nick Marek pops by to talk about his...