Bellingham Blazers


The Bellingham Blazers were an American junior ice hockey team from Bellingham, Washington during the regular season and Langley, British Columbia during their 1970s playoff runs. They were members of the British Columbia Junior Hockey League.

History

In 1975, the Blazers, playing out of Langley, BC, won their first of two BCJHL championships. After defeating the Kelowna Buckaroos 4-games-to-2 to win the Nat Bailey Cup, the Blazers moved on to the British Columbia Jr. A Championship, the Mowat Cup, against the Coquitlam Comets of the Pacific Junior A Hockey League. The Blazers swept the PJHL champion 2-games-to-none. In the Alberta/British Columbia Championship, the Blazers fell to the Alberta Junior Hockey League's Spruce Grove Mets 4-games-to-2. After winning their two home games in Langley to start the series, the Blazers were beaten in Spruce Grove in four consecutive games to end their season.
For 1975-76, the Blazers briefly relocated to Maple Ridge. They returned to Bellingham in the summer of 1976, but the league placed an expansion team in Maple Ridge for 1976-77 to replace them.
In 1979, the Blazers won the league title 4-games-straight over the Kamloops Rockets, but the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association banned them from proceeding into the national playdowns as they were playing their home games in the United States.

Season-by-season record

Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against
SeasonGPWLTGFGAPtsFinishPlayoffs
1972–736015432232358324th BCJHL-CLost Quarter-final
1973–746429350246251582nd BCJHL-CLost Semi-final
1974–756633321313251673rd BCJHL-CWon League, Won Mowat Cup
1975–766623412245349487th BCJHLLost Quarter-final
1976–776827383311381575th BCJHL-CDid not qualify
1977–786641250372294822nd BCJHL-CLost Semi-final
1978–7962511014972491031st BCJHL-CWon League
1979–806649161415241991st BCJHL-CLost Quarter-final
1980–814319240204230385th BCJHL-CLost Quarter-final
1981–824820280280297405th BCJHL-CDid not qualify
1982–835629252319321604th BCJHL-CDid not qualify
1983–845019301242310395th BCJHL-CDid not qualify
1984–855241101408273831st BCJHL-CLost Final