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BCHL Today: Grizzlies add goaltender Justin Easter and former Express assistant Sam Waterfield joins Grande Prairie

Brian Wiebe

Grizzlies add goaltender Justin Easter

The Victoria Grizzlies have signed 19-year-old goaltender Justin Easter for the 2020-21 season.

The Burlington, Ontario product spent last season with the Hamilton Kilty Bs of the junior B Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League.

Easter finished with a 19-9 record, a 2.26 goals-against-average, a .927 save percentage, and four shutouts. He was selected as Golden Horseshoe Conference First Team All-Star.

Waterfield heads to Grande Prairie as assistant coach

Sam Waterfield (two goals, six assists in 35 games with Burnaby, Nanaimo and Prince George from 2008-11) has been hired as an assistant coach by the Grande Prairie Storm of the Alberta Junior Hockey League.

Waterfield spent 2019-20 as an assistant with the Coquitlam Express before leaving the team at the end of March. He joins veteran junior hockey boss Mike Vandekamp with the Storm.

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.