Staff
U18 AAA
Tyler Brough
Tyler Brough began his coaching career in the 2013-14 season. He is entering his 12th season with the Cariboo Cougars program. His career coaching highlight is his first championship as head coach, in the 2017-18 season with the U18 AAA Cariboo Cougars.
During his playing days Brough won a National Junior A Championship with the Fort McMurray Oil Barons of the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) where he scored the game-winning goal. His stick and gloves from that game were taken to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.
U17 AAA
Brogan O'Brien
Brogan O’Brien enters his first season as head coach of the U17 Cariboo Cougars and his second season in the BCEHL after serving as an assistant coach with the team during the 2025-26 season. The Prince George, B.C., native played minor hockey with Prince George Minor Hockey Association and suited up for the U18 Cariboo Cougars before advancing to the Prince George Spruce Kings of the British Columbia Hockey League and then, ultimately, to the Prince George Cougars of the Western Hockey League.
O’Brien played U Sports hockey at Carleton University for five seasons before beginning his professional career, which included time with the Fort Wayne Komets and Kansas City Mavericks of the ECHL and the Dundee Stars of the Elite Ice Hockey League. He holds a bachelor’s degree in financial economics from Carleton and a master of science in management from the University of Dundee. O’Brien works as a client adviser with RBC.
U15 AAA
Mirsad Mujcin
Mirsad Mujcin is in his ninth year coaching in the BCEHL. He believes that the BCEHL is beneficial to many young players in northern BC and has allowed them to play a higher caliber of hockey, while also allowing them to develop new friendships within the game they love.
Mujcin was born in Yellowknife, NT. During his playing days he was forced to move away to Edmonton to pursue playing AAA youth hockey. After his youth hockey days, he went on to play in the Western Hockey League and the ECHL. He is a certified collision repair technician and now is a shop manager with Craftsman Collision.
Trevor Sprague
Trevor Sprague will oversee both the Integrated and Female AAA programs in Northern B.C. Sprague has been involved in hockey in the north for over 30 years and has spent the last 17 years with teams in the BCEHL. He is entering his 11th season as the general manager of the Cariboo Cougars and seventh as the general manager of the Northern Capitals. Sprague coached in Prince George for over 20 years before moving to the management side of the game.
During his coaching and management career, Sprague has won two provincial titles with the Cariboo Cougars’ U18 AAA team. Sprague is also a key driver behind the annual BC Hockey Winter Classic event that is held in Northern B.C. each winter.
