Victoria Grizzlies forward Madison Dias has been named the British Columbia Hockey League Player of the Week for the week ending February 27, the league announced Monday.Dias produced seven points to take the early playoff scoring lead and helped the Grizz to a 2-0 series lead on the Nanaimo Clippers. He scored twice in a 9-1 victory in […]
Burnaby Express grad and Northeastern University Huskies captain Tyler McNeely joined a select group on the weekend by scoring his 100th career point.A senior, McNeely became the 46th member of Northeastern hockey 100-point club. The Burnaby, B.C. native assisted on fellow BCHL product Wade MacLeod’s third-period power play goal in a 6-3 loss to the […]
The Penticton Vees took a commanding 3-0 series lead over the Quesnel Millionaires but had to overcome a lot to get there on Monday. First was the Vees' bus misadventure that saw them wind up in a snowbank near Kamloops, forcing puckdrop to be pushed back half an hour. Then there was the show Mills' […]
The Westside Warriors evened their series 1-1 with the Trail Smoke Eaters Saturday night, using two first-period goals to take control in the early going. Tyler Krause opened the scoring for the Warriors and Alex Grieve tallied soon after. An unassisted marker by Kyle Singleton made it 3-0 for the home team before Sam Mellor […]
(Front graphic player photos courtesy Garry Horley and Shawn Zacharias)The 2011 Fred Page Cup presented by BC Hydro Power Smart is underway and the Penticton Vees got off to the start they wanted with a 5-1 win over the Quesnel Millionaires Thursday night at the South Okanagan Events Centre.It took just 3:14 for Penticton to […]
The British Columbia Hockey League is pleased to announce its 2011 Coastal and Interior Conference All-Star Teams presented by Save-On-Foods. Since there was no All-Star Game this season, ballots were distributed to each head coach around the league to determine the best player at each position in both conferences.Coastal Conference: Goalie – Michael Garteig, Powell […]
The #2-seed Surrey Eagles slowed the #7 Coquitlam Express in Game 1 of their Coastal quarter-final series with a 4-2 win at South Surrey Arena. Richard Vanderhoek opened the scoring for Surrey just more than five minutes into the contest but Coquitlam's Riley McIntosh equalized with just over five minutes to go in the opening […]
For the first time in recent memory, the British Columbia Hockey League named an all-rookie team and it's made up of players from both the Interior and Coastal Conferences.Voting was done by coaches from all 16 teams in conjunction with award and regular all-star balloting. As opposed to finding true centres and wingers, the league simply named […]
The Salmon Arm SilverBacks hockey club is pleased to announce that defenceman Josh Manson has accepted a scholarship to NCAA Div. I school Quinnipiac for the 2012-13 season.The 6-foot-3, 205-pound Prince Albert, Sask. native saw his stock rise considerably this season after making a successful switch from forward to defence.“Josh has only started to realize […]
Penticton Vees alumni Trevor Nill and Tanner House were each been nominated for the BNY Mellon Wealth Management Hockey Humanitarian Award for their work in the respective communities where they play college hockey and Nill has since been named a finalist.Nill, who spent the 2007-08 season in Vees colours, is now a junior forward with the Michigan […]
