Hartley’s Sports Shorts; Friday, March 21st

Sports by Hartley Friday, March 21st, 2025

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

WHL:

This is the last weekend of the WHL regular season.

The Prince George Cougars, who have won nine of their last 10 games, host the Victoria Royals tonight (Friday) at 7:00 and Saturday night at 6:00.

The (39-17-3-7) Royals lead the BC Division by two points over the (40-20-4-2) Cougars.

P.G. needs to win both games in order to finish first in the division.

Victoria needs just one win to take top spot.

The tie-breaking procedure is here.

Prince George has the fewest home regulation losses in the WHL (with a 23-4-3-2 record at CN Centre).

Retro Weekend, Mega 50/50, specialty jerseys, and a chance to win the BC Division.

It all goes down THIS WEEKEND IN OUR HOUSE. pic.twitter.com/9ZAsmpz7ep

— x – Prince George Cougars (@PGCougars) March 20, 2025

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

Playoff tickets went on sale Wednesday afternoon.

The WHL Conference standings are here.

BC Elite Hockey League:

The bests-of-3 BC Elite Hockey League finals go this weekend.

The Under-18 Cariboo Cougars host the Okanagan Rockets at Kin 1 tonight at 7:45, Saturday night at 4:45 and if needed Sunday morning at 10:45.

The winner goes to Alberta for the Pacific playdowns April 4th-6th.

In the Female division, the U-18 Northern Capitals visit the Greater Vancouver Comets in Coquitlam this evening 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: (14 Thursday games with all 7 Canadian teams in action)

St. Louis  4  Vancouver  3  (OT)

The game summary is here.

The (32-25-12) Canucks, with just 13 games left, continue a 6-game road trip Saturday (10 AM) against the New York Rangers.

Vancouver is a point behind the (35-28-7) Blues for the 2nd and final wild-card spot in the Western Conference.

The (32-25-11) Calgary Flames are two back of St. Louis.

Calgary  5  New Jersey  3
Winnipeg  4  Edmonton 3  (OT)
Toronto  4  NY Rangers  3
NY Islanders  4  Montreal  3  (OT)
Colorado  5  Ottawa  1

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Alex Ovechkin scored for the Washington Capitals in a 3-2 (Thursday night) victory over the Philadelphia Flyers.

The 39-year-old Ovechkin is 7 goals away from breaking Wayne Gretzky’s NHL career record of 894.

The (46-15-8) Caps have 13 regular season games left.

The NHL schedule and results are here or here.