The Williams Lake Timberwolves Junior A Hockey Club is pleased to announce the hiring of Dave Dupas as the team's new head coach. Dupas has signed a two-year contract for the 2009/10 and 2010/11 seasons.Dupas brings to the Timberwolves more than 10 years of head coaching experience at the Junior A, Junior B, Semi-Pro, BC […]
The Merritt Centennials have appointed Joey Bouchard as the team’s new head coach and general manager, the club announced Tuesday. Bouchard joins the Centennials from the Northwest Junior Hockey League’s Whitecourt Wolverines, who he led to a league championship and provincial silver medal during the 2008/09 season. Prior to his two seasons in Whitecourt, the […]
The Surrey Eagles are pleased to announce the hiring of former Eagle Matt Erhart as Assistant Coach and Director of Scouting for the club commencing May 1st, 2009.Erhart joined the Eagles as a player in 1997 and won the Royal Bank Cup with the team a year later. His hard work and dedication procured him a scholarship […]
The Westside Warriors are pleased to announce that a pair of players have received scholarship commitment from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.Forward Chad Gehon, who came to the Warriors in a trade from the Trail Smoke Eaters in January, will head to Fairbanks for the 2009/10 season. Gehon finished in the top 20 in BCHL […]
The Vernon Vipers are Canada's Junior A hockey champions for a record-setting fifth time.The Vipers received power-play goals from Braden Pimm and Kyle Bigos and a shutout performance from netminder Andrew Hammond on Sunday in a 2-0 RBC Cup-clinching victory over the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Humboldt Broncos.The game remained scoreless until the 12:33 mark […]
The 2009 RBC Cup, Canada's 39th National Junior A Championship, held its awards banquet on Saturday night at the Westin Bear Mountain in Victoria. The recipients of all six individual awards were announced at the banquet. The awards were based on the tournament's round-robin, which ran from Saturday to Thursday. The 2009 RBC Cup award […]
The Vernon Vipers and Humboldt Broncos will meet for the 2009 RBC Cup, Canada’s 39th National Junior A Championship, after posting semifinal wins on Friday at Bear Mountain Arena. The Vipers defeated the Kingston Voyageurs 6-2 while the Broncos topped the host team, the Victoria Grizzlies, 3-2 in overtime. Regardless of the outcome, history will […]
The Vernon Vipers rode two-goal efforts from Bryce Kakoske and Cameron Brodie to a place in the 2009 RBC Cup Final on Friday afternoon, taking a commanding 5-0 lead after two periods and holding on in the third for a 6-3 victory over the Kingston Voyageurs.Kakoske opened the scoring just 1:50 into the game, converting […]
It isn't likely to mean much to the Victoria Grizzlies that they deserved better, though they did. On a night where the RBC Cup hosts poured more than 40 shots on Humboldt Broncos netminder Mathieu Larochelle, the Grizzlies fell by a 3-2 score in the waning moments of the first overtime period.Broncos forward Shawn Hunter played […]
The dream — for BCHL fans, at least — is still alive. With the RBC Cup preliminary round now in the rearview mirror, the Victoria Grizzlies and Vernon Vipers have each secured a place in the tournament semi-finals, and the possibility of an all-BCHL Championship Game remains a distinct possibility.Following a win on Thursday, the […]
