The 2022-23 BC Hockey League regular season begins tomorrow night with a full slate of nine games across the league. All 18 teams will play their season openers on Friday, including the Penticton Vees raising their championship banner at home against the Trail Smoke Eaters. Elsewhere, the Merritt Centennials will kick off their 50th Anniversary […]
The BC Hockey League and The Coaches Site, the leading educational resource for hockey coaches, have announced an extension of their partnership. The Coaches Site is an online learning platform that makes it possible for any coach to learn directly from hockey’s best coaches. Whether its drills, practice plans, fundamental skills, team tactics or leadership […]
The BC Hockey League has announced new dates for its 60th Anniversary event after it was postponed last season due to the pandemic. The rescheduled event will be held in Penticton, B.C. from Jan. 20 to 22, 2023. The format will be the same as last year’s planned event and will include activities on the […]
Photo credit: Garrett James Photography The BC Hockey League has tied its previous recorded of NCAA Division I commitments with 173 committed athletes in the league during the 2021-22 season The record was first set during the 2019-20 campaign. “The league is thrilled to see our college commitments back to the level they were before […]
The BC Hockey League has announced details for the 2022 Showcase event, including dates, schedule and location. The Showcase is returning to the Chilliwack Coliseum and will take place over four days, from Monday, Oct. 17 to Thursday, Oct. 20. Each team will play two games, one home and one away, in front of NHL […]
The BC Hockey League held its Annual General Meeting May 26 and 27 in Salmon Arm, B.C. The league’s Governors discussed and approved several initiatives regarding league standards, events and a wide variety of other topics. League Standards At the league’s October Governors meeting, the Board voted in favour of adopting a scorecard to measure […]
The final series of the Shaw BCHL Playoffs begins tomorrow night as the Penticton Vees and the Nanaimo Clippers get set to compete for the Fred Page Cup. Game 1 of the finals is at 7 p.m. PT at the South Okanagan Events Centre in Penticton. The Clippers enter the final series with a 12-0 […]
The 2022 Shaw BCHL Playoffs start tonight as the league begins its first postseason in two years with 16 teams competing for the Fred Page Cup. The playoffs open up with the Penticton Vees hosting the Trail Smoke Eaters tonight in Game 1 of their Interior Conference quarterfinal, before the other seven series begin this […]
The BCHL Board of Governors voted in favour of approving the use of video review through the Sporfie video system for all teams that wish to adopt it, starting immediately. The Chilliwack Chiefs will be the first team to implement Sporfie video review full-time starting this weekend. The team participated in a successful video review […]
The BC Hockey League (BCHL) has added another element to its 60th Anniversary All-Star Weekend in January with the announcement of the BCHL Top Prospects Game on Jan. 14. 40 BCHL athletes will be chosen to participate in the game on the Friday night of the event. Players listed by NHL Central Scouting as draft […]
