You could feel the tension going into last weekend from the players, staff, volunteers and fans as the Chase Heat had two games to turn around their season to date. Friday night October 21st at the Art Holding Memorial Arena the Grand Forks Border Bruins were the guests. It feels like eons since these two […]
There have been many impressive team and player performances this season and this week’s KIJHL Notebook touches on what players from the respective teams did over the weekend, including some of the games during this week. Bill Ohlhausen Division The Princeton Posse improved to 6-2 on the season with a pair of wins against the […]
The trials and tribulations of a junior hockey team in Chase are sometimes ok dependent on which Heat team shows up. Let’s be honest early in this article a great deal of the time to date they are difficult to watch. It shows in the size of the crowds attracted. This past weekend the North […]
The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League season is now three weeks old. The landscape of where teams sit in their respective divisions so far has changed from last season. Some teams are seeing early returns from the strong play of their rookies, while others are benefitting from trades for experienced players. This weeks KIJHL […]
This article is not a harlequin romance, it’s regarding 200 ft of ice and what happened last weekend on it. The time period was “Family Weekend” which was also Thanksgiving, and while we have so much to be thankful for, the Heat players and organization are most thankful. In between, a Friday night 60 minutes […]
With two weekends of Kootenay International Junior Hockey League action in the books, only one team remains undefeated in regulation – the back-to-back Teck Cup champion Revelstoke Grizzlies, while the Summerland Steam, are also undefeated in regulation time, but have dropped two games in a shootout. This week’s edition of The KIJHL Notebook delves […]
This past weekend your Heat left town on a 52 passenger land yacht in the early hours of Friday the 30th of September. Their first stop on their itinerary was a meet and greet with the Kimberley Dynamiters. Now the KABOOM crew are perennially one of the best in the KIJHL, so who knew which […]
As the summer heat subsides the fall and winter Heat hit the ice. The annual goal of all goals is to get to spring heat (playoffs). It’s a long way off, however time flies and early season points accumulated against Division rivals are huge in the end. This isn’t a normal start to one of […]
The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League and the Pacific Junior Hockey League are pleased to announce the creation of the British Columbia Hockey Conference. This new organization represents a partnership between two of Western Canada’s premier junior hockey leagues to advance their level of competitive hockey in British Columbia. The British Columbia Hockey Conference’s inaugural […]
The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League has an exciting new wave of rookie talent entering the 2022-23 season, which begins on Sept. 23. Leading up to the start of the season, we will highlight those players from each team. Next in the New Wave series are the Chase heat. The Heat finished third in […]
