The Manhattanvile College Valiants program checked off a lot of boxes for Revelstoke Grizzlies captain Raymond Speerbrecker. First is the school itself, which he says is very well regarded and gives people opportunity for employment after hockey. Among them are more than 12,500 internship opportunities, more than 3,500 employer connections and in 2018, 89 […]
A year after joining the Kelowna Chiefs as an assistant coach, Travers Rebman takes over for Ken Law as head coach. Law, a six-time Kootenay International Junior Hockey League (KIJHL) divisional Coach of the Year and two-time Overall Coach of the Year (2010-11, 18-19), becomes the Chiefs’ new general manager. It’s part of a […]
Michael Garteig is an alum of the Princeton Posse program, having played there in the 2008-09 season. He moved onto the B.C. Hockey League playing for the Powell River Kings and won a Junior A national championship with the Penticton Vees in 2011-12. The KIJHL connected with him over Zoom to talk about playing […]
A desire to be near the sports hub of Boston factored into Nelson Leaf Matt Byrne signing to play with the Anna Maria College Athletic Team Sports (AMCATS) in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III. “Ever since I first talked to the coaches, they were awesome to me,” says Byrne, a Penticton, B.C. […]
There is some exciting news Straight Outta Rutland! The Kelowna Chiefs have made some organizational moves to make them stronger in the front office and on the ice. Ken Law will be moving into a full-time general manager role and Travers Rebman, has been promoted from assistant coach last year to become the head […]
Harrison Ewert says he could have made the jump to Junior A this season. However, the Kamloops product chose to stay and play with his hometown Kamloops Storm in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League. After putting up nine goals and 23 points in 30 games last season, which was cut short by a […]
Kimberley Dynamiter Carter Spring is ready to make the jump to Junior A hockey. Spring, a Creston native, will join the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League’s La Ronge Ice Wolves for the 2021-22 season. It’s an opportunity that means a lot to him and it’s a fit he and his family feel is right after […]
A winning hockey program combined with small classes sizes made Adrian College the right fit for Nelson Leaf Ethan McLaughlin. McLaughlin did a virtual tour to get a sense of what Adrian College, based in Adrian, Michigan, and their hockey program is about. The Bulldogs won a American Collegiate Hockey Association Division 1 national […]
John Ludvig believes the delayed start to American Hockey League season helped him. It was hard for Ludvig, drafted by the Florida Panthers 69th overall in 2019, to not play in competitive games for nearly a year, but he used that time to work on his strength, as well as his offensive skills, including […]
Malachi Franklin made the best of his rookie season with the Chase Heat. While he only played three games in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League season, the Cranbrook native put in the work on and off the ice to earn an opportunity to sign with the La Ronge Ice Wolves of the Saskatchewan […]
