Hartley’s Sports Shorts; Monday, March 17th

Sports by Hartley Monday, March 17th, 2025

(As of 12:05 a.m. All times listed are PST)

WHL:

Prince George Cougars  5  Wenatchee Wild  3  (Saturday)

Borya Valis snapped a 3-3 tie with just 3:52 left in the 3rd period.

Riley Heidt notched four assists, including his team record 250th of his career, before 5,600 fans at CN Centre.

Carson Carels added three assists while Koehn Ziemmer notched his team-record 37th career power play goal to go along with one assist.

The game summary and highlights are here.

What a win and what a weekend!

Recap and reaction from GM & HC Mark Lamb and tonight’s first star, Carson Carels!https://t.co/V1aUkhhUSP pic.twitter.com/MqhyDFYNzm

— x – Prince George Cougars (@PGCougars) March 16, 2025

Prince George Cougars  4  Wenatchee Wild  2  (Friday)

The Cougars erased a 2-1 deficit with three unanswered goals in the 3rd before 4,592 hometown fans.

Riley Heidt scored the game-winning goal with 5:13 left in the 3rd.

The game summary and highlights are here.

The (40-20-4-2) Cougars have won nine of their last 10 games and improved their home record to 23-4-3-2.

Prince George leads the B.C. Division by two points over the (37-17-3-7) Victoria Royals.

The Cougars host the Royals to close out the regular season Friday and Saturday.

Prior to that, Victoria will make up its two games in hand as the Royals visit the
(24-36-4-1) Kamloops Blazers on Tuesday and the (17-42-4-2) Kelowna Rockets on Wednesday.

The Cougars will start the playoffs at home on Friday, March 28th and Saturday, March 29th against either Portland, Vancouver or Tri-City.

Playoff tickets go on sale Wednesday afternoon at 2:00.

The WHL Conference standings are here.

BC Elite Hockey League:

U-18 Cariboo Cougars  7  Vancouver North West Hawks  0  (Sunday) at Kin 1
Vancouver North West Hawks  3  U-18 Cariboo Cougars  2  (Saturday) at Kin 1
U-18 Cariboo Cougars  4  Vancouver North West Hawks  3  (3-OT Friday) at Kin 1
(The U-18 Cougars won the semifinal series 2-1 to advance to the best-of-3 final against the Okanagan Rockets. Games will be played at Kin 1 Friday night at 7:45, Saturday at 4:45 PM and if needed Sunday morning at 10:45. The winner goes to Alberta for the Pacific playdowns April 4th-6th)

U-18 (Female) Northern Capitals  4  Fraser Valley Rush  3  (OT-Saturday)  in Langley
U-18 (Female) Northern Capitals  1  Fraser Valley Rush  0  (Friday)  in Langley
(The Capitals won the semifinal series 2-0 to advance to the best-of-3 final against the Greater Vancouver Comets with games in Coquitlam Friday night at 5:00, Saturday night at 5:45 and if needed Sunday afternoon at 1:00)

The BC Elite Hockey League playoff results can be found here or here.

The BC Elite Hockey League playoff schedule can be found here 

The final BC Elite Hockey League regular season standings are here.

NHL: (7 Sunday games with 3 Canadian teams in action)

Utah  3  Vancouver  1

The game summary is here.

The Canucks beat Chicago 6-2 Saturday.

The (31-25-11) Canucks are tied with the (33-28-7) St. Louis Blues for the 2nd and final wild-card spot in the Western Conference, two points ahead of the (30-24-11) Calgary Flames.

Edmonton  3  NY Rangers  1
Winnipeg  3  Seattle  2  (OT)

There are 5 NHL games tonight (Monday) including Calgary at Toronto (4:30).

Alex Ovechkin had a goal and an assist in the Washington Capitals 5-1 Saturday victory over San Jose.

The 39-year-old Ovechkin is 8 goals away from breaking Wayne Gretzky’s NHL career record of 894.

The (44-15-8) Caps have 15 regular season games left.

Washington will host Detroit Tuesday at 4:00.

The NHL schedule and results are here or here.

World Cup Ski Cross:

25-year-old Gavin Rowell of Prince George had a career-best 6th place finish in the men’s FIS Ski Cross World Cup race Saturday in Collingwood, Ontario.

Canadian athletes finished with silver and bronze in both the men’s and women’s races.

More info can be found here.

The Ski Cross World Championships are slated for March 22 and 23 in Engadin,
Switzerland.