Top Shelf – The KIJHL Podcast Episode 2 features interviews with host Mark Berry talking to 100 Mile House Wranglers Head Coach & GM Dale Hladun, as well as a chat with Kelowna Chiefs voice Justin McCartney, while KIJHL Director of Communications Emanuel Sequeira connects with Beaver Valley Nitehawks second-year defenceman Kaleb Percival. Top Shelf […]
The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League has an exciting new wave of rookie talent entering the 2022-23 season, which begins on Sept. 23. Leading up to the start of the season, we will highlight those players from each team. Next in the New Wave series are the Chase heat. The Heat finished third in […]
Last June, a new era of Grand Forks Border Bruins hockey began. It started under the leadership of local physician Dr. Mark Szynkaruk, who assumed ownership of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League organization from the community-owned Grand Forks Border Bruins Association. It was a tough year on the ice in the win column, […]
The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League is pleased to announce the hiring of Mark Berry as Social Media Coordinator and Tim Kilbrai as Hockey Operations Coordinator. Berry is well-known throughout junior hockey circles in B.C. as a social media presence, podcaster and broadcaster. He is the longtime play-by-play voice of the VIJHL’s Campbell River Storm, […]
The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League has an exciting new wave of rookie talent entering the 2022-23 season, which begins on Sept. 23. Leading up to the start of the season, we will highlight those players from each team. Next in the New Wave series are the Golden Rockets. The Rockets finished fourth in […]
The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League has an exciting new wave of rookie talent entering the 2022-23 season, which begins on Sept. 23. Leading up to the start of the season, we will highlight those players from each team. Next in the New Wave series are the Fernie Ghostriders. The Ghostriders finished third in […]
The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League has an exciting new wave of rookie talent entering the 2022-23 season, which begins on Sept. 23. Leading up to the start of the season, we will highlight those players from each team. Next in the New Wave series are the Creston Valley Thunder Cats. The Thunder Cats […]
The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League has announced a change to the Kootenay Conference playoff format for the upcoming season. The new format, which was necessitated by the withdrawal of the Spokane Braves for a third consecutive season, was recommended by the KIJHL’s Hockey Operations Committee and approved by the Executive Committee: The top three […]
Parker Konneke credits the Summerland Steam in helping him move on to the Virden Oil Capitals in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League for the 2022-23 season. The West Kelowna product is the second Steam player to join the Oil Capitals, with the first being Grayson Chell earlier in the off-season. In his lone season […]
