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From jubilation to frustration.

Cochrane Minor Hockey product Mason Raymond will be in Calgary with his Vancouver Canucks on Sunday (March 3) to take on the Flames at Scotiabank Saddledome, 6 p.m. puck drop (televised on SportsNet West).

The Cochrane Generals marched into Strathmore to, supposedly, meet their end. They didn’t get the memo.

With Cochrane’s wrestling season going hard on the mat right now, you can be forgiven if you think the International Olympic Committee’s recent decision to drop the discipline from its core sports for the 2020 Summer Games is misguided.

The Cochrane Generals open their best-of-3, survivor-series showdown with the Strathmore Wheat Kings tonight (Feb. 20) in Strathmore.

The Cochrane Generals have earned a three-game, survivor-series showdown with the Strathmore Wheatland Kings following Cochrane’s 5-2 win Feb.

The Cochrane Challengers welcomed Special Olympian Elouise Stewart home in style during a Feb. 11 meet up at Cochrane Lanes. The champion cross-country skier arrived back in Cochrane from the World Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea on Feb.

Talus Hume and Brett Berndt scored a goal and an assist each, and Dustin Ponath added a goal in the Bow Valley Timberwolves’ 6-3 loss to the visiting Calgary Bruins in South Central Alberta Hockey League Midget AA play Feb.

It was a banner weekend for the Cochrane High School boys basketball teams, as the senior boys won the Bowness Trojan Classic Feb. 9 in Calgary for the first time in the tournament’s 32-year history.

On the Special Olympics Canada website you’ll find a biography of Cochrane cross-country skier Elouise Stewart.