Grande Prairie native Terry Bangen former Assistant Coach with the Kamloops Blazers. Photo Credit: (CJFC Today/Kamloops Blazers Hockey Club)

By Shane Clausing

Terry Bangen

Grande Prairie’s Terry Bangen to be inducted into Kamloops Sports Hall of Fame

Aug 21, 2020 | 1:24 PM

Long time Western Hockey League coach and Grande Prairie native Terry Bangen is set to be inducted into the Kamloops Sports Hall of Fame on Friday, August 21.

Bangen spent from 1989-1995 coaching major junior hockey as an assistant coach for the Kamloops Blazers.

Throughout that six-year span, the Blazers had their most successful run in franchise history. The club won four WHL championships, three Memorial Cups and lost twice in the West Division final.

In Kamloops, Bangen served as an assistant under Hockey Hall of Fame Head Coach Ken Hitchcock, current President of Hockey Canada and former NHL Head Coach Tom Renney and long time WHL Head Coach and BC Sports Hall of Famer Don Hay.

While coaching with the Blazers, Bangen helped develop players like Shane Doan, Jarome Iginla, Darcy Tucker and Scott Niedermayer.

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Bangen also spent from 1996-1998 as an Assistant Coach for the Vancouver Canucks.

After a short stint in the NHL, he would make the transition back to junior hockey from 1998-2014 where he split time as an Assistant Coach, Assistant General Manager, Director of Player Personal and Senior Advisor for the Tri-City Americans.

From 2014-2017 he returned to the Blazers bench for three more seasons, before finishing his coaching career as an Assistant Coach with the Worcester Railers of the ECHL.

In 2008, Bangen was inducted as a Hockey Legend of Grande Prairie.