Nanaimo Clippers set themselves up for second-half push

The Nanaimo Clippers battled through the first half of the BCHL season to earn the sort of results that make anything possible in the second half.
The city’s B.C. Hockey League team reached the holiday break with a 15-12-2-0 record, good for second place in the Coastal West division. Colin Birkas, the team’s coach and general manager, said the team was playing good hockey at the midway mark.
“The behind-the-scenes analytics stuff that we have access to would indicate we were ou