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The Cranbrook Bucks begin exhibition play this upcoming weekend, kicking things off against the defending national junior A champion Brooks Bandits of the Alberta Junior Hockey League. The Bucks head east and open their preseason schedule in Brooks at 7:00 pm on Saturday, Sept. 10, before a date with the […]
As is customary each year, the BC Hockey League’s 18 teams aren’t allowed to make trades with any of the 117 teams in the Canadian Junior Hockey League between Dec. 10 and New Year’s Day. It’s simply because the national association of junior A leagues has an annual trade freeze […]
The BC Hockey League is no longer a member of the Canadian Junior Hockey League, this we know. But there are still lots of questions about what it actually means. The CJHL announced on Apr. 9 it received notice for the BCHL to withdraw from the umbrella organization effective […]
Back on Nov. 24. 2020, the Cranbrook Bucks posted a news release announcing they had rounded out their roster. Included in the release was the following message, indicating they had finalized their roster ahead of the regular season. “The Cranbrook Bucks now sit at 24 rostered players to start […]
Alberta Junior Hockey League skewers reports of teams joining BCHL The AJHL remains a member of the Canadian Junior Hockey League and there is no plan for the creation of a new joint League. No active members of the Alberta Junior Hockey League have expressed a desire to leave […]
BCHL to leave Canadian Junior Hockey League Report: BCHL leaves Canadian Junior Hockey League 👤 | Brian Wiebe (@Brian_Wiebe) 📰 | https://t.co/DgbKHjMFEL #BCHLNetwork #CJHL pic.twitter.com/VB7ROCrPsn — BCHLNetwork (@BCHLNetwork) March 25, 2021 Reports surfaced late Wednesday regarding the BC Hockey League leaving the Canadian Junior Hockey League, which is a […]
The BC Hockey League is reportedly set to leave the umbrella of the Canadian Junior Hockey League. Rod Pedersen, who hosts a daily nationwide sports talk show on Game+, tweeted on Wednesday night that he’s heard rumblings the BCHL will leave the CJHL to play on its own. He […]
The 2020-21 BC Hockey League trade deadline — the first for the Cranbrook Bucks — came and went on February 25. The Bucks’ first trade deadline remained consistent with their first season as a franchise, as likely the most unusual they will ever experience. We all know about the situation […]
Welcome to the 2020-21 BC Hockey League trade tracker, the list of completed trades by BCHL teams since June 1, 2020. This page includes trades officially announced by the teams involved or posted on the BCHL transactions page. The trade deadline for the 2020-21 season was Thursday, February 25 […]
The Canadian Junior Hockey League trade deadline arrives on Thursday at 3 pm Pacific Time. That’s the deadline for teams in the BC Hockey League and the other nine junior A leagues in Canada to be able to make trades and releases from their rosters. When BCHL teams trade […]
