In the weeks to come, the KIJHL Notebook is putting a spotlight on a New Wave of players – it’s rookies. The head coach-GM of respective teams have been asked to provide scouting reports on their players. We begin in the Kootenays with the Eddie Mountain division.   Columbia Valley Rockies Forwards Tysin Mulligan […]

  This month will be special for the Golden Rockets, its community, and especially four players. Golden’s Indigenous community will be represented by the orange community jerseys the Rockets wear during their five home games. A special touch has been added to the jerseys for Nathan Andrew, Jake Yakubowski, Draeden Bear, Levi Hall (not pictured) […]

  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 […]

Welcome to Top Shelf – The KIJHL podcast. This Week on Top Shelf, Emanuel Sequeira talks with one of the Hudl Instat Players of the Week, Defenceman Jake Kessler from the Kelowna Chiefs. The Beaver Valley Nitehawks’ Connor Stojan was Goaltender of the Week while Ryan Larsen of the Kamloops Storm was Forward of the […]

Golden Rockets Debut 2023-2024 Community Jersey For the month of November, the Golden Rockets will be wearing this season’s alternate jersey.   Last season, one of our players faced harassment on the ice because of his Indigenous background. This season, we would like to demonstrate to our players that our organisation stands beside them and […]