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When you look up sharpshooter in the dictionary, Sheldon Rempal’s name isn’t very hard to find. The Calgary, Alberta product brought Nanaimo Clippers fans to their feet during his three years on Vancouver Island, lighting the lamp 106 times in three seasons. After finishing his final year of midget […]
Women in sport, as well as women in traditionally male-dominated jobs, have been a hot-button topic over the last little while – and rightly so. Fellow BCHLNetwork writer Brieann Knorr recently collaborated on an article that focussed on the jobs of women in both the BC Hockey League and […]
(This article was originally published on Feb. 12, 2021) A highlight-reel goal. The goaltender stopping a shot labeled for the top corner. A huge open-ice body check. These are all parts of a BC Hockey League game that you don’t have to be at the arena to witness. Everything […]
(This article was originally published on Feb. 10, 2021) Sports fans around British Columbia and across the Canadian media landscape were shocked on the morning of Feb. 9 when Bell Media abruptly shuttered TSN 1040. There was a canned announcement after a commercial break and the morning hosts of […]
Kirk Thompson is in elite company when it comes to Prince George Spruce Kings netminders. The Surrey product sits third all-time in single-season wins with 24. He achieved it in 2012-13 and sits only behind Evan DeBrouwer’s 26 in 2017-18 and Logan Neaton’s 32 wins in 2018-19. However, on […]
(This article was originally published on February 7, 2021) A star-studded team always requires a last line of defense. Enter Will Reilly. The 23-year-old enjoyed a rock-solid season with the Nanaimo Clippers playing alongside standouts like Sheldon Rempal, Devin Brosseau, Matt Hoover, and Yanni Kaldis. Reilly’s journey to Vancouver […]
Go West, young man. While that phrase is often credited to American author and newspaper editor Horace Greeley, such a journey proved successful for Sean Ambrosie. After suiting up for Moorhead High School in Minnesota, Ambrosie began his voyage into Canada playing for the Manitoba Junior Hockey League’s Winnipeg […]
(This article was originally published on Feb. 5, 2021) Inspired by a recent exercise by 32 writers at The Athletic where they conducted a draft to select everything needed to build an alternate version of the National Hockey League, we wondered if it could be done at the BC […]
Alex Murray considers himself one lucky individual. His playing career spanned three countries and two continents, making countless memories along the way. Murray played the 2013-14 season in the BC Hockey League with the Prince George Spruce Kings and recorded a stellar 23-11-0 record in addition to a 2.41 […]
If there was one player who knew how to balance skill and grit for the Nanaimo Clippers it was Grant McDonald. He recorded four stellar seasons with the orange and black, all while dealing with the likes of the Richmond Sockeyes, Delta Flyers, New Westminster Royals, and Powell River […]
