The Cougars travel schedule is slightly better now
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This was supposed to go out this morning, but did not. So here it is now!
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The addition of the Vees gives the Cougars another provincial opponent, located an eight-hour drive away. Currently, the closest WHL team to Prince George is six hours away in Kamloops, with the Kelowna Rockets a seven-hour drive from PG. The Cougars’ other BC Division opponents are in Langley and Victoria.
“It will change our travel schedule a bit, but not very much,” said Cougars president John Pateman. “They still want to do a more balanced schedule, so we’ll still be going to the U.S. as many times as we normally do.
“It’s always nice to have teams close together. Most people want to play Fridays and Saturdays, and now Vancouver (which plays in Langley) has a preference to play on Sundays, so that makes it easier to do a Kelowna-Penticton-Vancouver kind of thing. That’s not a bad trip, actually.”
Apparently, though, there’s chatter in forums to move Prince George to the same division as Edmonton in order to even the number of teams out. Fortunately, no actual plans to do so because sheesh.
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