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By Victor Kaisar

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Cougars lose second successive 6-3 game to BC Division rivals

Jan 12, 2025 | 9:49 AM

KAMLOOPS — The Prince George Cougars ran into penalty trouble in a 6-3 defeat to the Kamloops Blazers Saturday (Jan. 11) night.

It’s back-to-back 6-3 defeats for the BC Division leading Cougars in the Thompson-Okanagan, after Friday’s loss in Kelowna. It’s also the Cougars first loss to Kamloops this season.

The Cougars struck first at 3:36 of the opening period through Arseni Anisimov, but that lead only lasted for about five minutes before the Blazers took control with five unanswered goals.

Goals from Matteo Koci and Jordan Keller had the Blazers up 2-1 after 20 minutes, before Behm added to the tally with the only goal of the second period.

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Blazers captain Emmitt Finnie then extended his point streak to 11 games with a power play goal at 11:13 of the third period. Max Sullivan also pounced on the power play about a minute later as the Cougars ran into penalty trouble.

Koehn Ziemmer ended the Blazers’ run of goals with a power play marker of his own at 13:58 to give the Cougars a glimmer of hope, which was snuffed out when Behm potted his second of the game at 16:26.

Borya Valis tacked on a late consolation short handed goal in the final couple of minutes but it was too little, too late for the Cougars, who drop to 24-12-3-2, and into a tie with the Victoria Royals with 53 points from 41 games.

The Blazers improved to 15-21-3-0 and sit in 10th place in the Western Conference with 33 points from 39 games.

Dylan Ernst was stellar in net, as he turned aside 40 of 43 Cougars shots to pick up the win. Joshua Ravensbergen allowed six goals on 37 shots in a losing effort for Prince George.

The Cougars will be back on the road next weekend for games in Spokane on Friday (Jan. 17) and Everett (Jan. 18). They’ll then return home for a five-game home stand starting off with a game against the Brandon Wheat King on Friday, Jan. 24.