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Hartley’s Sports Shorts; Friday, March 7th

By Hartley Miller

Sports by Hartley Friday, March 7th, 2025

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

WHL:

The Prince George Cougars play their final three “road” games of the regular season this weekend.

The Cougars visit the (21-32-7-1) Wenatchee Wild tonight (Friday), the league-leading
(42-11-4-3) Everett Silvertips Saturday and the (29-24-8) Vancouver Giants Sunday (in Langley).

Prince George is coming off a 4-3 Wednesday victory in Wenatchee.

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The game summary and highlights are here.

The (36-19-4-2) Cougars are just three points behind the (36-15-3-6) Victoria Royals in the battle for top spot in the B.C. Division.

Prince George has seven regular season games left while Victoria has eight remaining.

The Royals host the (41-18-1-1) Spokane Chiefs tonight and Saturday.

The WHL Conference standings are here.

The WHL Division standings are here.

The Cougars 2024-25 regular season schedule and results are here.

 

Cat Scan podcast:

 

BCHL:

The Prince George Spruce Kings host the Langley Rivermen tonight at 7:00 and Saturday night at 6:00.

The (18-24-3-1) Spruce Kings are three points behind the (17-20-8-1) Rivermen for the 8th and final playoff spot in the BCHL Interior Conference.

Both teams have eight games left.

The Spruce Kings schedule and results are here.

The BCHL Conference standings are here.

 

NHL: (9 Thursday games with 4 Canadian teams in action)

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Edmonton  3  Montreal  2  (OT)
Dallas  3  Calgary  2  (OT)
Winnipeg  4  Philadelphia  1

The (28-22-11) Vancouver Canucks continue a 4-game homestand tonight at 7:00 against the (36-22-4) Minnesota Wild.

It is one of six Friday games in the NHL.

Vancouver is one point behind the (29-23-10) Calgary Flames for the 2nd and final wild-card spot in the Western Conference.

Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals entertain the Detroit Red Wings this evening.

The 39-year-old Ovechkin is 10 goals away from breaking Wayne Gretzky’s NHL career record of 894.

The (40-14-8) Caps have 20 regular season games left.

The Sportsnet NHL trade tracker is here.

The NHL schedule and results are here or here.

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The Vancouver Canucks schedule and results are here.

The NHL Wild Card standings are here.

The NHL Division standings are here.

 

BC Elite Hockey League:

The first place (26-6-3-1) Under-18 Cariboo Cougars host the last place (5-31) Thompson Blazers in the BC Elite Hockey League best-of-3 quarterfinals at Kin 2.

Games will be played this evening at 6:00 and Saturday night at 5:45 with a 3rd game, if needed, Sunday morning at 11.

 

High School Basketball:

The B.C. High School Boys Basketball Provincial Championships continue until Saturday in Langley.

16 teams are entered in each tournament.

PGSS finished 0-4 and 16th in 4A.

College Heights is 1-2 in 3A and will play for 13th and 14th on Saturday.

Nechako Valley is 1-2 in 2A and will play for 13th and 14th on Saturday.

Cedars Christian ended up 0-4 and 16th in 1A.

Also in 1A, Northside Christian is 1-2 and will play for 13th and 14th while Houston Christian is 2-1 and will play for 9th and 10th.

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NBA:

The (20-42) Toronto Raptors, with just 20 games left in their season, start a 4-game homestand tonight (4:30) against the Utah Jazz.

The Raptors are 4.5 games out of a play-in spot in the Eastern Conference.

The Raptors schedule and results are here.

The NBA schedule and results are here.

The NBA standings are here.

 

Curling:  

Playoffs begin today at the Montana’s Brier in Kelowna.

In the Page 1/2 qualifier games this afternoon (Friday), Manitoba (Dunstone) will take on
Saskatchewan (McEwen) and Canada (Gushue) will battle Alberta (Jacobs).

In the round-robin, Dunstone and Gushue went 7-1 in Pool A while Jacobs was a perfect 8-0 in Pool B followed by McEwen at 7-1.

The final is set for Sunday night at 5:00.

The winner will represent Canada at the world men’s curling championship in Moose Jaw from March 29th to April 6th.

The standings can be found here or here.

The scoreboard can be found here.

 

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