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BCHL Today: Vipers add Bourgeois for 2021-22, Nash signs a deal with Winnipeg, and more!

Brian Wiebe

Vipers add Bourgeois for 2021-22

The Vernon Vipers announced the addition of 2004-born forward Adam Bourgeois for the 2021-22 BC Hockey League season. Bourgeois, who’s from Kelowna, BC, didn’t get into any games with the Cariboo Cougars U18 AAA team in 2020-21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

He had three goals and 19 points in 21 games with the Okanagan Rockets U16 AAA squad in 2019-20. That season, Bourgeois also played one game with the Rockets U18 AAA team as an affiliate player but didn’t register any points.

Nash to fly with the Jets in 2021-22

Forward Riley Nash (38 goals, 46 assists in 56 games with Salmon Arm from 2006-07) has signed a one-year contract with the Winnipeg Jets worth $750,000. Nash, a 32-year-old from Consort, AB, had two goals and seven points in 37 games with the Columbus Blue Jackets in 2020-21.

He was traded to Toronto by the Blue Jackets at the trade deadline but didn’t play any regular season games with the Maple Leafs due to injury. Nash was scoreless in a pair of playoff games with Toronto.

Poolman inks an extension with the Flames

Defenseman Colton Poolman (three goals, 37 assists in 57 games with Penticton in 2015-16) has signed a one-year, two-way contract extension with the Calgary Flames worth $750,000 million per season.

Poolman, 25, had a goal and six points in 21 games with the Stockton Heat of the American Hockey League in 2020-21. It was the East Grand Forks, MN product’s first pro season after four years at the University of North Dakota.

Roach gets a try-out with Kölner Haie

Defenseman Alex Roach (no points in four games with Quesnel in 2009-10) has signed a try-out contract with Kölner Haie of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga.

The 28-year-old from Schongau, GER had a goal and eight assists in 31 games with Löwen Frankfurt of the DEL2 in 2020-21.

Brian Wiebe

Brian's been involved in the BCHL in a variety of capacities for 17 years. From 2002 to 2012, he served in several roles around the Merritt Centennials organization, including as team president, board member, beat writer, colour commentator, webmaster, media and communications coordinator and marketing assistant. He's been writing about the BCHL since 2008 and served as colour commentator on the TSN 1040 broadcasts in 2012-13. BCHLNetwork is one of Brian's many passion projects that he balances around his full-time job as an instructor in the Radio Arts and Entertainment Program at BCIT in Burnaby.