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Across their history, the Victoria Grizzlies have developed several connections with the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League. The junior B league has acted as a proving ground for several future Grizzlies. Several former Grizzlies came from teams in the VIJHL, including Jamie and Jordie Benn, who both played junior […]
With 25-plus seasons in Greater Victoria, the Grizzlies are the longest, continuously operating junior A team in the southern Vancouver Island region. They are not the first junior A hockey team though, as the region hosted several before the Grizzlies joined the BC Hockey League. As far back as […]
(This article was originally published on Nov. 9, 2020.) In my past three articles, I’ve talked about the players on the ice for the Grizzlies. But any junior hockey team like the Grizzlies has a ton of people working behind the scenes. Everyone from the support staff to game […]
The majority of the Victoria Grizzlies offense comes from the team’s forwards. Players like Cody Monds and Alex DiPaolo put up big numbers last season. Along with Henri Schreifels and Marty Westhaver, the four players combined for 186 points. Westhaver and Schreifels have since aged out and left for […]
The Victoria Grizzlies have three goalies on their extended training camp roster. Returning from last season is veteran goalie Blake Wood, joining the team as a junior A rookie is Justin Easter, and taking part in the extended training camp is Adam Manji. All three goalies are part of […]
The Victoria Grizzlies management team has the difficult job this offseason of constructing a competitive hockey team to bounce back after a disappointing 2019-20 season. The Grizzlies last season finished with a record of 22-33-1 and were swept in round one of the playoffs by the Salmon Arm Silverbacks. […]
Nothing has been normal since much of society shut down in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the BC Hockey League, the season came to a screeching halt just before the start of the second round of the Fred Page Cup playoffs. For eight of the league’s 17 […]
Alex Newhook’s exclusion from Canada’s roster for the 2020 World Junior Hockey Championship raised more than a few eyebrows from those who followed the 18-year-old’s two year career in the BC Hockey League. Newhook is in his sophomore season at Boston College after leading the BCHL in scoring with the […]
The early 2019-20 schedule is certainly not friendly to the Victoria Grizzlies. They spend the first seven games of the season on the road due to their home rink, The Q Centre, being preoccupied with their other tenant’s Mann Cup chase. The Western Lacrosse Association’s Victoria Shamrocks have the building […]
The goals came early and often for the Cowichan Valley Capitals as they defeated the Victoria Grizzlies 8-2 in front of 1002 fans in the home opener at the Island Savings Center in Duncan on Saturday night. Fresh off a 2-0 win against the Nanaimo Clippers the night before, the […]
