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.

In 1975, the Bellingham Blazers, playing out of Langley, B.C., 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 Junior A Championship, 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.

In 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 Ice Hawks won the league title 4-games-straight over the Kamloops Rockets, but the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association banned them from proceeding into the national play downs as they were playing their home games in the United States.