Sports by Hartley Tuesday, February 17th, 2026 as of 8:05 a.m.
Winter Games:
Canada’s third gold medal of the Winter Games in Italy goes to the speed skaters in Women’s Team Pursuit.
Ivanie Blondin, Valerie Maltais and Isabelle Weidemann defeated the Netherlands in the finals today (Tuesday) to top the podium.
It’s back-to-back gold for Canada in the event after they won four years ago in Beijing.
Canada has 12 medals at the Winter Games; three gold, four silver and five bronze.
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Megan Oldham of Parry Sound, Ont. won Canada’s second gold medal at Milano Cortina 2026.
Oldham came first in the women’s freeski big air on Monday.
It was her second medal of the Games after she won bronze in the slopestyle.
Freestyler Mikael Kingsbury won Canada’s first gold and it came in the men’s Dual Moguls event.
Kingsbury of Quebec earlier captured a silver in men’s Moguls.
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Prince George long-track speed skater Caroline Hiller-Donnelly placed 21st out of 29 Sunday (Feb. 15th) in the 500m race at the Winter Games in Italy.
Earlier, (on February 9th), Hiller-Donnelly finished 26th out of 30 in the 1000m race.
Ski cross racer Gavin Rowell of Prince George will participate at the Games on Saturday, Feb. 21st (1 AM PT).
Evan Bichon of Mackenzie, who went to high school in Prince George, ended up 17th in a field of 32 and did not advance to the quarter-finals in men’s snowboard cross.
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Canada will play the U.S. in the women’s hockey gold medal game Thursday (10:10 AM PT).
Canada beat Switzerland 2-1 and the United States blanked Sweden 5-0 in the semifinals.
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In Men’s Hockey:
The quarterfinals go Wednesday;
No. 1 Canada will play #8 Czechia at 7:40 a.m.PT.
No. 2 U.S. will face the winner of #7 Sweden-#10 Latvia at 12:10 p.m. PT
No. 3 Slovakia will take on #6 Germany at 3:10 a.m. PT
No. 4 Finland will go against #5 Switzerland at 9:10 a.m. PT
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The semifinals on Friday have the Top-seeded quarterfinal winner vs. lowest-seeded quarterfinal winner and the second-seeded quarterfinal winner vs. the third-seeded quarterfinal winner.
The bronze medal game is set for Saturday (11:40 a.m. PT).
The gold medal game will be played Sunday (5:10 a.m.).
WHL:
Penticton Vees 3 Prince George Cougars 0 (Monday)
Ethan McCallum made 31 saves for the shutout before 4,013 fans in Penticton.
McCallum and Josh Ravensbergen of the Cougars got into a goalie fight late in the 3rd period.
The game summary is here.
Prince George Cougars 3 Kamloops Blazers 2 (SO-Saturday)
The game summary is here.
Prince George Cougars 5 Kamloops Blazers 2 (Friday)
The game summary is here.
The Cougars play their next six games on the Prairies starting Friday night against the Broncos in Swift Current.
The (32-20-2) Cougars are second in the B.C. Division, just one point ahead of the
(29-18-5-2) Kelowna Rockets and 12 points behind the first place (35-11-4-4) Vees.
Prince George has just 14 games left in the regular season; 6 at home and 8 on the road.
The PG Cougars regular season schedule and results are here.
The WHL standings are here.
PG Cougars Cat Scan podcast:
Part two with P.G. Cougars team president and part owner John Pateman is here.
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BCHL: (in Burns Lake)
Coquitlam Express 4 Prince George Spruce Kings 2 (Sunday)
The loss ended the Spruce Kings 10-game point streak.
The game summary is here.
Prince George Spruce Kings 5 Coquitlam Express 2 (Saturday)
The game summary is here.
The (25-14-2) Spruce Kings are in first place in the Coastal East Division, (with 13 regular season games left) two points ahead of the (24-14-1-1) Express.
Prince George will host the (8-30-2-1) Powell River Kings Friday night at 7:00 and Saturday night at 6:00.
Powell River is last in the Coastal West Division.
The BCHL Standings are here.
The Spruce Kings regular season schedule and results are here.
BC Elite Hockey League:
The (17-12-2-1) U-18 Cariboo Cougars are in 3rd place out of 7 teams. (They split with the Vancouver North East Chiefs in Prince George; losing 5-4 Friday and winning 7-4 Saturday)
The (24-11-0-1) U-17 Cariboo Cougars are tied for first with the Vancouver North East Chiefs out of 9 although the Chiefs have a game in hand. (They beat the Thompson Blazers twice at Kin 1; 4-1 on Saturday and 5-2 Sunday)
The (16-14-0-0) U-15 Cariboo Cougars are 5th out of 8. (They split with the Vancouver North East Chiefs; winning 7-5 Saturday and losing 8-4 Sunday in Burnaby).
The (11-17-1-1) U-18 Northern Capitals sit 4th out of 5 in the female division. (They did not play league games on the long weekend)
The BCEHL scores and schedule are here.
The BCEHL standings are here.
NBA:
The (32-23) Toronto Raptors are idle until Thursday when they visit the (24-31) Chicago Bulls.
The Raptors are 5th in the 15-team Eastern Conference as of the All-Star break.
The NBA schedule and results are here.
The Toronto Raptors schedule and results are here.
The NBA standings are here.
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