The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League completed its 22nd week of regular season action for the 2024-25 season. The KIJHL Power Rankings highlight the top-five teams based on winning percentage, with various tie-breakers to help decide positioning. The Grand Forks Border Bruins keep their No. 1 spot. They won both their games, first defeating […]
Taylor Haggerty (Fernie Ghostriders), Liam O’Neill (Revelstoke Grizzlies) and Josh Hager (Kimberley Dynamiters) have been selected as the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League 3 Stars of the Week for the period ending Feb.9/25. Haggerty – Top Forward – The Sherwood Park, Alta., native scored five goals and added three assists in three games for the […]
The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League completed its 21st week of regular season action for the 2024-25 season. The KIJHL Power Rankings highlight the top-five teams based on winning percentage, with various tie-breakers to help decide positioning. The Grand Forks Border Bruins are No. 1 for another week. They defeated the Castlegar Rebels 9-2 […]
Alex Evin is excited to be back on a bench after a two-month break, that was long enough for him. The Castlegar native spent eight years with the BCHL’s Prince George Spruce Kings, where he won the BCHL’s Fred Page Cup in 2019. Evin joked about “getting bored” and the opportunity came to join the […]
We complete trade deadline coverage in this week’s KIJHL Notebook with the Kootenay Conference, as respective general managers share how it was for them and what they wanted to do to improve their respective rosters. Eddie Mountain Division Kimberley Dynamiters Nate Tillmanns (2005, F) acquired from Kamloops Head coach-general manager Derek Stuart wasn’t very […]
Ethan MacDuff developed into an offensive forward over his three seasons with the Fernie Ghostriders scoring 45 goals, 56 assists for 101 points in 83 regular season games. His rookie season was impacted by COVID-19. Now, the Lloydminster, Alta., native is in his second season with the University of Southern Maine Huskies in NCAA Division […]
We’re on part 2 of the biggest win/individual performance or moment to end 2024 in the KIJHL Notebook, this week for Kootenay Conference teams. Eddie Mountain Division The Christmas Classic against the Fernie Ghostriders was a highlight for the Kimberley Dynamiters, said head coach-general manager Derek Stuart. “Just the environment and intensity surrounded by that, […]
The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League completed its 14th week of regular season action for the 2024-25 season. The KIJHL Power Rankings highlight the top-five teams based on winning percentage, with various tie-breakers to help decide positioning. It’s five straight weeks at No.1 for the Revelstoke Grizzlies. The Grizzlies had a rematch with the […]
“I think anytime you’re playing your rival games around the holidays, I always find that kids and family have come home for Christmas and it feels like the hockey rink is a place to congregate. It’s a place where people go and they see lots of people, especially people they know and connect with over […]
Ethan Davey (100 Mile House Wranglers), Eric Martin (Fernie Ghostriders) and Jasper Tait (Grand Forks Border Bruins) have been selected this week’s Kootenay International Junior Hockey League 3 Stars of the Week for the period ending Dec. 15/24. Davey – Top Forward – The Terrace, B.C. native had four goals and six points in two […]
