Queenstown's SkyCity Stampede may be without two of its superstar stalwarts this year, but coach Cam Frear’s confident he’s got a team that could conceivably lift the Birgel Cup for an unprecedented 11th time. The Stampede’s 2026 New Zealand Ice Hockey League campaign gets under way in Dunedin this weekend, but the national champs won’t have Colin McIntosh, the second-highest scorer in last year’s league, or Callum Burns, who pulled up his 200th game in the league last year, every single one of which he suited up for Stampede. Both have hopped the ditch where they’re playing for the Melbourne Mustangs in the Australian Ice Hockey League. They are, Frear says, "huge losses". "It’s hard to ever replace people like Colin and Callum — and you never will — just in terms of how good as players they are, and how big a part of the culture they were.…