New deals in Kamloops?

From The Daily News of Friday, July 13

The impending arrival of an offer to purchase the Kamloops Blazers won’t have any impact on new contracts that are being prepared for the WHL team’s coaching staff.
In fact, an announcement on those contracts is imminent, perhaps before the end of this month.
Dean Clark, the team’s general manager and head coach, Shane Zulyniak, the assistant GM and assistant coach, and assistant coach Andrew Milne all have one season left on their contracts. The club also holds an option on each of them for 2008-09.
New contracts would replace the one season that remains and would run through at least 2008-09.
“We have done some work on contracts,” Blazers president Murray Owen said Thursday. “Once I get back to the board and report our progress in that regard, we will make an announcement.”
Asked how many of the coaches are in line for new deals, Owen said: “We hope all three.”
Clark said yesterday that the contracts “are basically done.”
A contract also is in the works for Dave Chyzowski, the former Blazers star who joined the front office in the middle of last season as the director of marketing.
“I want to lock all these guys up,” Clark said, “so that there aren’t any doubts in their minds.”
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The Blazers expect to have forwards Kyle and Mark Wells, the sons of former WHLer Brad Wells, in training camp when it opens late in August.
The 17-year-old Kyle, 5-foot-10 and 160 pounds, had 44 points, including 20 goals, and 80 penalty minutes in 52 games with the midget AAA Brandon Wheat Kings last season.
Taylor, who goes about 5-foot-7, played for the bantam AA Wheat Kings, but wasn’t selected in the WHL draft. A fiery player, the 15-year-old Wells is said to have good offensive skills and a good shot. He was selected by the Swan Valley Stampeders in the Manitoba junior league draft.
Their father was a fiery player during stints with the Wheat Kings, Regina Pats and Lethbridge Broncos. Their uncle, Bryan, who played with the Wheat Kings and Pats, also displayed a whole lot of fire.
As for Kyle and Mark, Clark said, “They’ve got that Wells intensity.”
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Jerry Price, the father of former Tri-City goaltender Carey Price, has been added to the Americans’ staff as a scout and goaltending consultant. Jerry, 49, lives in Williams Lake. He is a former WHL goaltender who played for the Calgary Centennials and Portland
Winter Hawks.