Getting your first NCAA goal is obviously a career highlight but when it’s a game-winner and earns conference player of the week recognition, it makes for an especially sweet moment to savour. That’s the case for Nanaimo Clippers alum Yanni Kaldis of Cornell University as he potted the winner in an important 4-3 win over RPI […]

Ryan Barrow’s career year for the Langley Rivermen, that has seen him more than triple his offensive output from a season ago, has attracted the attention of one of the top teams in NCAA hockey. The University of Denver has recruited Barrow to join their program starting in the fall. A native of Banff, Alta., […]

Neck and neck in the standings with conference rival RIT, the Bentley University Falcons got a big boost from freshman and West Kelowna Warriors alum Jonathan Desbiens in last weekend’s road sweep of the Tigers. Desbiens got the opening goal of the game in the series-opening 3-2 win at RIT and followed that the next […]

Since missing four games in early- and mid-January, including a conference weekend at Western Michigan, Liam Finlay has returned to the Denver Pioneers lineup as a difference maker. His efforts this past weekend earned him the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) offensive player of the week honours. The Kelowna native and former Vernon Vipers standout […]

The opening list of names for the Hobey Baker Award, given annually to the top player in NCAA hockey, has been announced and five BCHL alums are in the running. Former Coquitlam Express forward Alex Kerfoot of Harvard, Chilliwack Chiefs grad Mitch Gillam of Cornell, former Langley Rivermen standout Mario Puskarich of Vermont, former West […]

With the race for playoff position heating up and the postseason looming not far away, Michigan Tech senior and former Nanaimo Clippers standout Reid Sturos was at his best in a pair of big conference games for Michigan Tech. Sturos scored twice shorthanded, one of them a game-winning goal, and also assisted on a game-tying […]

It’s a story well known to fans following the BCHL. Triplets Gerry, Leo and Myles Fitzgerald – who each played four BCHL seasons before going off to NCAA hockey at Bemidji State – played almost exclusively on the same line and quickly became fan favourites wherever they went. A sidebar to the story that often […]

Now past the midway mark of his freshman NCAA season, former Prince George Spruce Kings and Powell River Kings defenceman Adam Brubacher is hitting his stride. The 6-foot-4 blueliner with the big shot from the point had a goal and two helpers for RIT in a recent conference weekend and took last week’s Atlantic Hockey […]

The annual list of senior NCAA hockey players up for the Senior CLASS Award has been announced and four former BCHL player have been nominated. Recognizing student-athletes for their excellence on an off the ice, CLASS stands for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School ®. BCHL alums Max French, Alex Kerfoot, James de Haas […]

Having proven to be one of the most durable players in BCHL history, and also showing a knack around the net, Surrey Eagles forward Darius Davidson has secured a college hockey future at NCAA Div. I American International College (AIC). Davidson passed a pair of major milestones this season as he reach as streak of […]