This week the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League announces its overall award winners in seven categories – Most Valuable Player, Top Scorer, Top Defenceman, Top Goaltender, Rookie of the Year, Most Sportsmanlike Player and Coach of the Year. Next is Top Goaltender – Jozef Kuchaslo from the Revelstoke Grizzlies. It’s back-to-back wins for the […]
Alexander Bronswyk of the Revelstoke Grizzlies is this week’s Young Guns, presented by the Next Shift Network, as he scored twice, including a winner, and had an assist in two games against the Princeton Posse. “He’s a smart player and has incredibly good habits,” says Grizzlies general manager Ryan Parent. “I think his biggest […]
Welcome to Top Shelf – The KIJHL podcast. This Week on Top Shelf, Luke Aston of the Revelstoke Grizzlies scored the GWG in Game 4 of the Kootenay Conference Finals. Emanuel Sequeira talks with him about the series. The Mowat Cup is in Kimberley, starting April 18th. Kimberley Dynamiters’ Head Coach and General Manager, […]
The Kimberley Dynamiters are back to work, getting ready to compete for the 2024 Mowatt Cup, which they host April 18 to 21. “This month hasn’t been much fun for the guys,” says Dynamiters head coach-general manager Derek Stuart. “Our practices have been focused on competing, battling drills and conditioning as we’ve hit the […]
The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League Teck Cup playoffs are now down to its final four. The Beaver Valley Nitehawks and Fernie Ghostriders will battle for the Kootenay Conference championship, while the Princeton Posse and Revelstoke Grizzlies have a rematch of last year’s Okanagan-Shuswap Conference championship. Of those teams, the Posse have scored the […]
Revelstoke Grizzlies goalie Jozef Kuchaslo has committed to the Drury University Panthers in the American Collegiate Hockey Association Division 1 for the 2024-25 season. In 28 games, Kuchaslo went 19-8-0 with a 1.96 goals against average and a .932 save percentage with six shutouts. He was the KIJHL’s Top Goalie last season and was […]
Welcome to Top Shelf – The KIJHL podcast. This week, J.P. Desabrais of the Grand Forks Border Bruins scored the GWG in Game 1 of the Neil Murdoch Division Final, Emanuel Sequeira talks with him about the goal and his first full season of Junior hockey. Back to back hat-tricks for Revelstoke Grizzlies’ Forward Ethan […]
Tonight there are two important Game 5s being played – the Grand Forks Border Bruins are in Beaver Valley, and the North Okanagan Knights visit the Princeton Posse. Heading into tonight, Knights rookies Nolan Kelly and Gage Parrell are 1-2 in points – Kelly has 19 points in eight games, while Parrell has 15. […]
Ethan Coventry (Revelstoke Grizzlies), Fraser O’Brien (North Okanagan Knights) and Connor Stojan (Beaver Valley Nitehawks) have been selected the Hudl Instat Kootenay International Junior Hockey League 3 Stars of the Week for the period ending March 10/24. Coventry – Top Forward – The Calgary product netted back-to-back hat-tricks for the Grizzlies to help […]
The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League will have a new Teck Cup champion this season after the Columbia Valley Rockies defeated the defending champion Kimberley Dynamiters in five games. The Kimberley Bulletin newspaper reported it’s the first time in over a decade that the Dynamiters have been eliminated in the opening round, dating back […]
