Rookies are once making an impact among the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League points leaders. On the skaters side, five of the Top 10 are first-year players – Zach Baumann and Tie Schumacher from Spokane, Owen Dewitt and Hayden Evans from Sicamous Eagles and Tysin Mulligan from the Columbia Valley Rockies. It’s impressive to […]
The Beaver Valley Nitehawks are the highest scoring team in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League with 60 goals in 10 games for an average of six a game. Their top guns are Adam Redding and Tim Josza with six goals each. The Princeton Posse are the second highest with 46 goals in 10 […]
Thirteen Kootenay International Junior Hockey League teams have scored in the first minute of a period this season, for a total of 24 goals. The Columbia Valley Rockies lead with four first-minute goals, followed by the Spokane Braves and Summerland Steam with three. The Beaver Valley Nitehawks, Fernie Ghostriders, Kelowna Chiefs and Nelson Leafs […]
Revelstoke Grizzlies goalie Jozef Kuchaslo recorded his second shutout of the season against the Columbia Valley Rockies. It’s the 11th career regular season shutout for the Mission, B.C. native in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League. As a rookie, he had four shutouts. Last season, his first as a starter, he had five. Will […]
The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League’s 2023-24 regular season is two weeks in and four players have recorded hat-tricks. Three of those have come from rookies – Owen Dewitt (Sicamous Eagles), Luke Nottviet (Grand Forks Border Bruins) and Tysin Mulligan (Columbia Valley Rockies). The other is by Daytn Kulynych of the Castlegar Rebels, who […]
The first weekend of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League 2023-24 season didn’t disappoint. The defending Teck Cup champion Kimberley Dynamiters won their opening game, the Eddie Mountain division regular season champs, the Columbia Valley Rockies gave Tayler Sincennes his first KIJHL win as a head coach and the Spokane Braves bounced back from […]
Welcome to Quick Shift, which provides a preview of each of the 20 Kootenay International Junior Hockey League teams, with insight from their respective general managers/head coaches. Next up is the North Okanagan Knights in the Bill Ohlhausen Division. The Knights qualified for the KIJHL Teck Cup playoffs with a record of 22-16-4-2 in […]
Kris Mallette is the Head Coach for the WHL’s Kelowna Rockets and began his junior hockey coaching career in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League with the North Okanagan Knights, first as an assistant coach in 2010-11, then Head Coach from 2011-13. In his final season, he guided the Knights to the KIJHL Final, […]
Ethan O’Rourke of the North Okanagan Knights has committed to the Drury University Panthers in the American Collegiate Hockey Association. O’Rourke had 24 points in 31 games for the Knights and added three points in seven Teck Cup playoff games. With the Osoyoos Coyotes and Knights, O’Rourke registered 32 goals and 66 points in […]
North Okanagan Knights forward Kevin-Thomas Walters will play for the Okanagan Lakers in the B.C. Intercollegiate Hockey League next season. Walters, 21, completed his third and final season with the Knights, leading the team with 54 points in 34 games. In 128 career KIJHL regular season games, the Vernon product had 56 goals and 120 […]
