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 Top Shelf – The KIJHL Podcast. In episode 2, Creston Valley Thunder Cat Luke Chakrabarti talks with co-host Emanuel Sequeira about the upcoming season while Mark Berry chats with KIJHL Commissioner Jeff Dubois about some rule changes. Top Shelf: The KIJHL Podcast – S2 E2 – September 15 – L. Chakrabarti – […]
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. Next up is the Princeton Posse in the Bill Ohlhausen division. The Posse enter the 2023-24 season as the defending Okanagan-Shuswap Conference champs. It’s the first time they […]
Anmol Garcha of the Princeton Posse has signed with the Rock Springs Grizzlies of the USPHL’s National Collegiate Development Conference. Garcha, 20, was third on the Posse with 35 points in 30 Kootenay International Junior Hockey League games. He added 20 points in 22 KIJHL Teck Cup playoff games, as he helped the Posse […]
Princeton Posse defenceman Grady Sterling-Ponech has signed to play with the Weyburn Red Wings in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League in 2023-24. Sterling-Ponech played one season with the Posse, collecting 15 points in 41 regular season games. He added three points in 22 playoff games as he helped the Posse reach the KIJHL Teck […]
Princeton Posse goalie Peyton Trzaska has signed to play for Adrian College in the American Collegiate Hockey Association in 2023-24. Trzaska returned to the Posse last season from the Manitoba Junior Hockey League’s Neepawa Titans to post a record of 10-1-0-1 with a .922 save percentage and a 2.62 goals against average. The Drayton […]
Princeton Posse rookie forward Kassius Kler has signed to play for the Notre Dame Hounds in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League in 2023-24. Kler was second on the Posse in points with 36 in 39 games, which also ranked him fifth among all KIJHL rookies. The former North West Hawks U18 AAA product was […]
Princeton Posse forward Tanner Funk will play for the Okanagan Lakers in the B.C. Intercollegiate Hockey League next season. In 40 games last season, Funk had nine goals and 28 points. The Swift Current, Sask., product added six points in 21 KIJHL Teck Cup championship games this season. In three seasons with the Creston Valley […]
Princeton Posse rookie forward Ty Olsen has signed to play for the Summerside Western Capitals in the Maritime Junior Hockey League. Olsen, 19, joined the Posse from the Sherwood Park Kings U18 AAA program and had 15 goals and 31 points in 32 games. He added five points in 13 KIJHL Teck Cup championship games. […]
The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League is proud to announce the 12 student-athletes who competed during the 2022-23 season that it has selected to receive league bursaries. Each bursary is valued at $1,000 and will be applied towards post-secondary studies. Tuesday, April 18 – Doug Birks Division recipients Wednesday, April 19 – Eddie Mountain Division […]
