The Blaze - With Jon Keen & Friends: Recent Episodes
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The Blaze - With Jon Keen & Friends is a weekly Kamloops Blazers & Western Hockey League podcast. It features special guests from the Blazers both past & present and others from around the WHL. Learn more about what's going on around the Blazers and the WHL during the season.
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 scrums. We will take you back to those.
Jermaine Loewen pops by to get some accolades and more.
FANMAIL! Nearly 25 minutes of answering your season ending questions as we put a wrap on the year and make a special announcement as well. You'll have to wait to the end for that one.
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It's a fiery edition of The Blaze - Presented by Warner Rentals after a wild and entertaining 24 hours in Blazerville. Featured guest is KTW's Marty Hastings who found himself in a media scrum battle with Regina Pats GM/HC John Paddock on Wednesday. The video clip of the exchange has gone viral. It all centered around trade talk with his young phenom Connor Bedard. Marty and I break it down, what happened? Why did it happen? What now?
An entertaining Fan Mail segment, and Pleasure Pools Plus co-owner and Blazer Alum Len Jorgenson stops by to talk about his hot tub giveaway for charity in Closing Remarks. Don't miss this episode!
What a great chat this week with Voice of the Edmonton Oilers Cam Moon. The former Red Deer Rebels broadcaster and Kamloops resident goes deep into his hockey history in Kamloops, the WHL and landing his dream gig with his hometown NHL team. Cam shares some insights on hosting a Memorial Cup and what the season is like after the Rebels played host in 2016. Don't miss our feature interview.
Lots to discuss from this past week taking 5 of 6 points and heading into a new week of "Bedard Mania" across the BC Division. All that and more on The Blaze.
Episode 9 of The Blaze - Presented by Warner Rentals - catches up to the newest Blazer F Jakub Demek after a trade with the Edmonton Oil Kings. More on the 19year-old Slovakian forward's play, his personality and his injury that will keep him from making his Blazer debut until January.
HC/GM Shaun Clouston discusses the trade and what might be next. How many more moves would he like to make?
We will take questions on "Fan Mail" and rant on "Buying & Selling". Don't miss it!
Our featured guest this week is Rob Vanstone - winner of the WHL's Bob Ridley Award for Media Excellence. An in-depth chat with the longtime sports journalist with the Regina Leaderpost. A look at his time covering the WHL and his reaction on getting the award. Don't miss this trip down memory lane with Rob this week.
Kevin Oates, GM at Rivershore Golf Links comes by for sponsors corner to talk about the golf season in Kamloops and his take on this year's team.
We have an extended On the Move and Fan Mail segments. Fans are asking when the Blazers will make significant moves. Jon will answer that question and much more. The Blaze - Presented by Warner Rentals.
The - Blaze - With Jon Keen & Friends looks back to a conversation with 1992 Memorial Cup hero Zac Boyer. He scored the game-winner in the '92 final against Sault Ste. Marie with 14 seconds to play to end previous Memorial Cup anguish. It led to three Memorial Cup titles later converting in 1994 and then on home ice 1995.
Sponsors corner this week brings in Roger - longtime Blazer bus driver and transportation provider Thompson Valley Charters. Roger talks about life driving the Blazers around, in the rink with the team on the road. The popular figure has bene driving bus at different times going back to the mid-80's.
Our regular features are back... On The Move, Fan Mail and Buying & Selling. Check it out!
Ahead this week, we sit down with friend of the show Dan De Palma. The longtime Blazers Goaltending Coach breaks down the latest with the team and the goaltending. Part teacher, part motivator, Dan will always leave you in a better place after a chat. He's our featured guest.
All the regular features again this week - Around the CHL, Fan Mail, plus a sponsors corner appearance from Ayren at The Mattress King.
Blazers owner Tom Gaglardi is our featured guest on The Blaze - Presented by Warner Rentals. We go more in-depth with Tom to talk Blazers, potential moves, the Memorial Cup, the highs and lows of team ownership and much more.
We have our regular features after the Blazers went 2-0-1 last week. More questions on "Fan Mail" and hear from F Fraser Minten after his return from the Toronto Maple Leafs.
It's all this week on The Blaze - With Jon Keen & Friends
The Blaze - with Jon Keen & Friends Presented by Warner Rentlals, catches up with Logan Stankoven after he was returned by the NHL's Dallas Stars. After playing in five NHL pre-season games, Stankoven nearly cracked the NHL teams' roster. Instead, he's back to lead his hometown team into the Memorial Cup. What was the best part of the NHL lifestyle? Find out.
Kelowna Rockets broadcaster Regan Bartel stops by to talk some "shop". The changing media landscape, offering fans more insight into their team and working hard to shine a spotlight on junior hockey. Some stories, his favourite spot on the road and a catch-up with Bartel down in the Okanagan.
Our regular features are back including an extended Fan Mail segment and On The Move - featuring a pair of Blazer roster moves from this past week.
This week we hear the story of Blaise Laveay, who at the age of 10, won the Kamloops Jr. Oilers "Name the Team" contest with his 1984 submission of "The Blazers". Now a police officer in Kelowna and high level baseball umpire, Laveay takes us back to the start of the Blazers and his role from that simple contest.
We have our regular features... On the Move, Buying & Selling and others. Also, hear from title sponsor Ralph Warner of Warner Rentals who presents a few Blazer hot takes. All ahead this week on "The Blaze".
Presented by Warner Rentals, our first episode introduces some new features like "The Opener", "Fan Mail", and "Around the CHL". Our featured guest is Logan Stankoven who joins us from Dallas ahead of another NHL pre-season game tonight. We will get his return status to Kamloops and hear his stories from his first NHL game experience. We will also have some trade talk and feature some news from around the WHL.
The Blaze - with Jon Keen & Friends debuts a pilot episode featuring Blazers Head Coach / GM Shaun Clouston, as well as a roster breakdown heading into the season. Trade talk & more.