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The Coquitlam Sports Hall of Fame is looking for a few good athletes.

The Coquitlam Express were shunted from the BC Hockey League playoffs after a 2-1 loss to the Penticton Vees Wednesday at the Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex.

When you’re the playoffs’ last qualifier going up against the BC Hockey League champions, you need to be firing on all cylinders to have a chance for the upset.

There’s a great theory about elite skill, how it can’t be taught and untapped without hard work. Coquitlam’s Mathew Barzal would beg to differ.

Whether the Coquitlam Express are to make any noise in the BC Hockey League playoffs will depend largely on which team shows uptonight for game three against the Penticton Vees, and game four Wednesday (both games are at 7 p.m.

The Riverside Rapids won their opening game against Claremont at the BC Secondary School Girls AAA basketball championship at the Langley Events Centre, 86-76.

Sometimes you have to take a step back to move forward. Haley de Jong’s step back broke her foot.

A tough February filled with illness, injuries and a lot of games against top teams might be just the prescription for the Coquitlam Express to find some success in the BC Hockey League playoffs.

Coquitlam speed skater Sherilyn Chung won five gold medals to lead all individual performances of Tri-Cities’ athletes at the 2018 BC Winter Games in Kamloops last weekend.

For Caleb Simpson, curling is more than throwing a rock. It is his rock. For 12 of his 17 years, the Coquitlam teen has migrated to curling rinks in New Westminster, Coquitlam, Langley and Surrey, first to learn the game, then to get better at it.