The Penticton Vees broke the 1989-90 New Westminster Royals BCHL record for consecutive games undefeated as they claimed their 39th consecutive win Friday night in a comeback 4-3 win over the visiting Salmon Arm SilverBacks. Penticton found themselves down 2-0 early in the second after former Vee Myles McCauley opened the scoring in the first […]
Max French is on his way to the NCAA. The Warriors Captain has committed to attend university and play Division I hockey at Bentley University starting in the fall of 2013. “I’m very excited to be able to go down to Bentley in the 2013 year and join a couple of past Warriors” […]
Victoria Grizzlies product Matt Ginn went 7-0-1 in the month of February with a 1.61 goals against average and a .937 save percentage to earn the Atlantic Hockey Association Rookie of the Month nod. The Lindsay, Ont. native won AHA Rookie of the Week honors twice in February. He went 2-0-0 in the two-game series […]
Homepage photo courtesy Pittsburgh ©Penguins/Joe Sargen The puck is the same size in the NHL as it is at every other level. Goalie coach Gilles Meloche passed along that message to Aldergrove's Brad Thiessen prior to his NHL debut with the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday afternoon. Thiessen shared that nugget in a media scrum following […]
The Canadian Junior Hockey League today announced its Final Weekly Top 20 rankings for the 2011-12 season. Last week’s rankings and the leagues in which the teams belong to are in parenthesis.Best wishes to all in the upcoming playoffs towards the RBC Cup in Humboldt, SK. The weekly rankings are selected in consultation with NHL […]
Cowichan Valley Capitals forward Devin Gannon has been named the BCHL Player of the Week for the week ending Feb. 26, the league announced on Monday. Gannon led the Caps to wins over the Vernon Vipers and Langley Rivermen and picked up six points in the process. The Kamloops native began the week with two […]
The British Columbia Hockey League has released the dates for the 2012 playoffs. With just four teams making the playoffs in each conference this season, there will be no byes and just three rounds needed to determine a champion. All series are a best-of-seven format. The dates are subject to change based on […]
Travis St. Denis' double-overtime goal kept the Penticton Vees winning streak alive in a 2-1 win but the Merritt Centennials came as close to breaking it as anyone has. Sean Maktaak's power-play goal late in the first gave Merritt the lead but the visitors tied it on Mike Reilly's tally, also on the power play, […]
Scoring a pair of goals each period, including Sean McGovern's tally 23 seconds into the game, helped the Surrey Eagles to a 6-3 win over the visiting Nanaimo Clippers. Andrew Gladiuk tied the game for the Clips just past the four-minute mark of the opening frame but Robert Lindores restored the Surrey lead. In the […]
The Merritt Centennials are pleased to announce the commitment of defenceman Dylan Chanter to the University of New Hampshire starting with the 2014-15 season. Chanter has played 50 games with the Cents as a rookie and the 6-foot-3 Armstrong, B.C. native has 2 goals and 10 assists. “At 16 years old, Dylan has stepped in […]
