Blazers put on offensive clinic to demolish Petes at Memorial Cup championship

What a difference a day and a drubbing can make at the Memorial Cup.

Dejected and filled with doubts following an opening 8-3 loss to the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League champion Quebec Remparts on Friday night, the host Kamloops Blazers regrouped and vowed to take care of business Sunday against the Peterborough Petes.

Mission accomplished.

The Blazers jumped on the Ontario Hockey League champion Petes early and often en route to a 10-2 victory that included four power-play goals, improving their record to 1-1 in the four-team, 10-day championship tournament at the Sandman Centre.

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The Petes slipped to 0-2 and must now beat the Remparts on Tuesday or they'll be spectators for the playoff round.

The Petes, 6-3 losers to the Western Hockey League champion Seattle Thunderbirds on Saturday, said they needed to be more physical and aggressive against the Blazers, but found themselves down by three goals before the first period was 14-minutes-old. A fourth Kamloops goal was waved off for goaltender interference.

Kamloops increased its lead to 7-0 before the nine-minute mark of the second frame, and by then even the visiting team knew all the lyrics to the Blazers' Bachman-Turner Overdrive goal song.

Caedan Bankier and Olen Zellweger also chipped in with two assists apiece for the Blazers.

Avery Hayes scored a power-play goal for the Petes, and Quinton Page scored with 20 seconds left in the game. The Petes were outshot 49-30.

Kamloops led 3-0