The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League completed its 16th week of regular season action for the 2024-25 season. The KIJHL Power Rankings highlight the top-five teams based on winning percentage, with various tie-breakers to help decide positioning. Make it six straight weeks at No.1 for the Revelstoke Grizzlies. The Grizzlies ended 2024 with a […]
Posse leaders bringing consistency This week’s KIJHL Notebook has Okanagan Conference coaches share what their biggest win/individual performance or moment was to end 2024. Bill Ohlhausen Division The Revelstoke Grizzlies have been happy with how their younger players were able to adapt to team play. “It’s always a process and a big jump for […]
JP Desabrais (Williams Lake Mustangs), Evan Murray (Quesnel River Rush) and Alex Jessey (Williams Lake Mustangs) have been selected as the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League 3 Stars of the Week for the period ending Dec. 22/24. Desabrais – Top Forward – The Red Earth Creek, Alta., native had five goals and six points in […]
The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League completed its 14th week of regular season action for the 2024-25 season. The KIJHL Power Rankings highlight the top-five teams based on winning percentage, with various tie-breakers to help decide positioning. It’s five straight weeks at No.1 for the Revelstoke Grizzlies. The Grizzlies had a rematch with the […]
“I think anytime you’re playing your rival games around the holidays, I always find that kids and family have come home for Christmas and it feels like the hockey rink is a place to congregate. It’s a place where people go and they see lots of people, especially people they know and connect with over […]
Revelstoke Grizzlies captain Jacob Smith is the focus of the latest KIJHL player feature. Smith is a KIJHL Teck Cup champion with the Grizzlies in 2021-22, then played two seasons in the BCHL with the Merritt Centennials. He’s returned to where his junior hockey career began. Watch the YouTube video below to learn more about […]
Welcome to Top Shelf – The KIJHL podcast. Season’s greeting from throughout the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League. The KIJHL covers a lot of Santa’s territory in British Columbia and Washington State, from Quesnel in the north, Spokane in the south, Fernie in the east and Princeton in the west. All the best this holiday […]
Kamloops Storm defenceman Aaron Zulinick earned his first WHL point with the Portland Winterhawks on Dec. 14. Zulinick, called up to the Winterhawks in late November, assisted on Tyson Yaremko’s goal to give the Winterhawks a 2-0 lead against the Spokane Chiefs. It was Zulinick’s third game. Zulinick has played four games and has seven […]
Matthew Byrne, a Summerland Steam and Nelson Leafs alum, is a senior for the Anna Maria College AMCATS. A business administration student, Byrne has five goals and seven points in 10 games this season, after posting five points in seven games last season that ended due to injury. Byrne, who had 37 points in 23 […]
