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The 2024 NHL Draft was once again a significant event for the British Columbia Hockey League as 10 players with ties to the league were selected this year, including four players who skated in the league during the 2023-24 season. Four of the players appeared in the BCHL before moving […]
The past year saw a lot of changes in the British Columbia Hockey League. The once stable league separated from Hockey Canada to become independent, it added five teams from Alberta midseason, the Merritt Centennials voluntarily left, and the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League joined the Junior Prospects Hockey League […]
As summer arrives, we officially start the road to the 2024-25 season. This season will see a massive change to the British Columbia Hockey League by integrating five Alberta-based teams into the regular season after they moved to join the league this past February. This is the first season that […]
As the British Columbia Hockey League off-season gets closer for all 21 teams, anticipation is building for next season already. With future considerations from this season’s trades potentially turning into players, plus recruiting and players moving on due to age or college commitments, there’s no shortage of work before training […]
Now that the 2023-24 National Hockey League season has wrapped up, it’s time to look back at how each player with British Columbia Hockey League experience fared. Thirty-eight players who skated for at least one game in the BCHL took to the ice in the NHL this past season, with […]
Things continue to change within British Columbia’s junior hockey leagues. The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League, a Hockey Canada-sanctioned Junior A Tier 2 league, welcomed the Merritt Centennials as an expansion franchise at the end of March. The KIJHL also relocated two teams to the Cariboo region as the Summerland […]
The City of Merritt was without a junior hockey team for less than five minutes. The Merritt Centennials, a storied franchise in the British Columbia Hockey League, announced on Mar. 31 that they will cease operations in that league at the end of the 2023-24 season. Within minutes of the […]
The British Columbia Hockey League’s longest-continuously run franchise is no longer the Merritt Centennials. After 51 seasons in the BCHL’s smallest market, the Centennials declared they would not operate in the league during the 2024-25 season. In a media release, Centennials President Ken Carruthers noted that the team’s board of […]
The British Columbia Hockey League prides itself on its ever-growing contribution to the NCAA Division I hockey system. Each year, a record number of BCHL players commit to continue their education and hockey dreams in the NCAA. Every spring, the schools compete to be one of the 16 teams selected […]
Big changes came to the B.C. Hockey League on Feb. 1 when five Alberta-based teams joined to play a mini-season and playoffs before jumping to the BCHL full time this fall. With this change of league, the teams might want to explore a fresh look to start fresh, but also […]
