The 2018-19 season is here – season No. 57 for the BCHL. Last season was historic for the BCHL – an RBC Cup win for the host Chilliwack Chiefs, Fred Page Cup and Doyle Cup victories for the Wenatchee Wild – the first such feats for a U.S.-based BCHL club since the late 1970s. On […]
Training camp and preseason are officially over and now the action starts for real as the BCHL regular season fires up off this weekend, the 57th in league history. As usual there are plenty of storylines heading into the season, after a summer that saw a great deal of change in the league including a […]
CALGARY, Alta. – The Canadian Junior Hockey League, in conjunction with the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League and the other nine Jr. A leagues that comprise the CJHL, announced Saturday details of a special banner that will be presented and unveiled at upcoming regular season home games for each if its 133 member clubs for the 2018-19 […]
CALGARY, Alta. – The Canadian Junior Hockey League (CJHL) announced Saturday its Top 20 preseason rankings for the upcoming 2018-19 season. Topping the preseason tabulations, which were compiled by a non-affiliated scouting agency, are the Penticton Vees (BCHL). Coming in at No. 2 were the 2019 Canadian National Jr. A Championship-host Brooks Bandits (AJHL) while Wellington […]
The Canadian Junior Hockey League’s (CJHL) Board of Governors announced today an initiative to reduce the number of 20-year-old players allowed to compete, commencing with the approaching 2018-19 regular season. These steps will be implemented over the course of a three-year plan, which has been formalized by the CJHL Board of Governors. Currently each of […]
Coming off the most productive season in his four-year BCHL career, former Salmon Arm Silverbacks forward Tanner Campbell has committed to the University of Regina Cougars for the 2018-19 season. Campbell finished second in scoring on the Silverbacks last year with 16 goals and 24 assists for 40 point in 47 games. The Kelowna native […]
Penticton Vees forward and University of Michigan recruit Cassidy Bowes has decided to grow out his hair and raise money for cancer research. Bowes, from Grand Prairie, Alta., hasn’t gotten a hair cut in over a year and won’t cut it again until he hits his goal. Playing off his jersey No. 92, the goal […]
Former Surrey Eagles defenceman Domenic Masellis will be playing his hockey in front of friends and family in his hometown of Burnaby this upcoming season as he has committed to play for Simon Fraser University (SFU). The 6-foot-3, 225-pound blueliner will be suiting up for his fifth different team in the last six seasons as […]
Former Chilliwack Chiefs forward Jared Turcotte has committed to play for the University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV) Rebels for the upcoming season. Turcotte played his first two BCHL seasons with the Salmon Arm Silverbacks before moving to Chilliwack and winning an RBC Cup National Championship at the end of the 2017-18 season. The 21-year-old from […]
The BCHL has rebranded all of its social media channels with a new handle – @GoBCHL. This change applies to the league’s Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts, which had previously been @bchllive, @BCHL Live and @realbchl respectively. The ‘bchllive’ tag was established in 2010 when the league was introducing its initial social media entries. The […]
