Mallette excited about first full season as Rockets head coach

  Kris Mallette is ready to start his first full season behind the Kelowna Rockets bench as head coach. It will be a quick 24-game schedule and he says it has been an interesting season and start to his career. He had a small taste last year earning three wins in six games before the […]

Former Thunder Cat makes All-Rookie team

  Former Creston Valley Thunder Cat Jake Livingstone is having a memorable rookie season with the Minnesota State Mavericks. Earlier this month, the Western Collegiate Hockey Association announced its 2020-21 all-conference teams and Livingston made the list for the WCHA All-Rookie Team, MSUMavericks.com reported. Livingstone has 4-9-13 in 25 games in his first season of […]

Dynamiters Danforth signs with VIU Mariners

  Kimberley Dynamiter Noah Danforth noticed there weren’t a lot of opportunities to play collegiate hockey next season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The current situation has created uncertainties for programs, which he says many weren’t really recruiting a lot. Because of that, the Edmonton native is grateful a shot came up with the Vancouver […]

Grant Sheridan Memorial Scholarship

The MindRight Society for Athletes is currently accepting applications for the Grant Sheridan Memorial Scholarship. The submission deadline on April 15, 2021. The Grant Sheridan Memorial Scholarship, named in memory of the longtime Kelowna Chiefs owner and general manager, is awarded each season to one Kootenay International Junior Hockey League player. For more information, visit […]

Little joins the Express

  The backbone of the Creston Valley Thunder Cats the last two seasons, goaltender Jaden Little, has signed with the B.C. Hockey League’s Coquitlam Express, the club announced on March 16.  On the heels of Little’s 20-year-old Kootenay International Junior Hockey League season being cancelled, and the announcement of the BCHL resuming play, he got […]

Coyotes Carter, Dawson join Penticton Vees

  Osoyoos Coyotes Levi Carter and Crae Dawson are part of the Penticton Vees’ 25-man roster for their shortened B.C. Hockey League season. Coyotes head coach Carter Rigby, a former Penticton Vee, connected with the Junior A organization to get the two area products an opportunity. Carter and Dawson are affiliate players.   “It looks […]

Smith realizes WHL dream with Royals

  Growing up in Valemount, B.C. Braden Smith’s dream to play in the Western Hockey League was planted every time his family was in Kamloops for minor hockey. Each time they were in the City of Tournaments, they checked to see if the Blazers were playing. Watching the Blazers created an inner fire in Smith […]

Former Nitehawks Armour working on two-way game

  Since joining the Bemidji State Beavers three years ago. Trail’s Ross Armour has been focused on developing into a well-rounded player. Armour, who spent a season in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League with the Beaver Valley Nitehawks in 2014-15, says his time with the Beavers has been great because of the coaching staff […]

Kings call on Storm for BCHL season

Kamloops Storm players Branden Toye, Zakery Anderson, Samuel Lewis, Lex Friesen, Jacob Drapeau and Brody Johnston will join the B.C. Hockey League’s Powell River Kings for their season. That group follows Owen Barrow, who signed with the Kings in mid-January.

Dynamiter Olafson signs with Mustangs

  Starting the season with the B.C. Hockey League’s Cranbrook Bucks was a very good experience for Kimberley Dynamiter Leith Olafson.   “I got the chance to see the speed of the game that I want to get to. It was a bit of a jump for me to go play with them,” says Olafson, […]