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It seemed like an alien landscape, both geographically and culturally, when defenceman Dylan Coghlan of Nanaimo and forward Jordan Topping from Salt Spring Island first got to the Tri-City area of Washington state to begin their Western Hockey League

The Humboldt Broncos bus crash brought rushing back to University of Victoria athletic director Clint Hamilton memories of another sports-travel tragedy that still feels fresh and cuts deep.

The passing-of-the-torch metaphor is probably the most over-used in sports. That’s because the new superseding the old is inevitable on any team and in any organization.

Commonwealth Games medals for sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ in team sports will not flow as freely as the beer in establishments that line the glistening beaches of Australia’s Gold Coast. The Island is well represented in the team sports on the Gold Coast.

TRI-CITY 4 VICTORIA 1 Tri-City leads series 2-0 It was a sombre day for hockey. But the sport goes on.

Matt Sharpe of Victoria gave it his all, only to watch the New Zealand runner cross the finish line in front of him for the bronze medal, in the triathlon mixed team relay event Friday of the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.

The Tri-City Americans, as big as they are skilled, have yet to lose a game in the 2018 Western Hockey League playoffs. And it doesn’t appear they intend to any time soon.

VANCOUVER — It was a sea of blue shirts and watery eyes.

Dillon Dubé, Kole Lind and Cal Foote of the Kelowna Rockets are considered future NHLers. But they were shut down tighter than a bank on the long weekend by the Tri-City Americans in a first-round playoff sweep.