The KIJHL is heading into its final month of the 2021-22 regular season and teams are pushing for playoff spots. This week’s KIJHL Notebook focuses on the leading goal scorer and set up player on each team as of Jan. 24 for this month. Eddie Mountain Division Rookie Christian Mealey and Cash Regan have […]
Saturday, January 22nd, 2022 Nelson 4 Rockets 0 The Saturday night crowd at the Plywood Palace were looking for a high-energy, action-packed contest between the hometown Rockets and the visiting Nelson Leafs and, for the most part, that was delivered. The Rockets were fairly solid in the opening twenty minutes, […]
Friday, January 21st, 2022 Creston 6 Rockets 3 The return match Friday night between the Rockets and ThunderCats started out as a carbon-copy of Thursday night’s game. Just seconds after the initial puck drop at centre-ice, Golden found themselves taking a penalty at the :31 second mark. Despite having pressure from the […]
Thursday, January 20th, 2022 Creston 3 Rockets 2 The first of a two-game set with the ThunderCats at the Plywood Palace last night started out a bit dubious, as the Rockets took a hooking penalty just :46 seconds into the game. But a good penalty-kill kept things scoreless. The Rockets […]
This week’s KIJHL Notebook recognizes the unsung hero on teams. According to grammarist.com, that term first appeared in the mid-1800s, though it has its roots in ancient Greece. They say an unsung hero is a person who has achieved great things or committed acts of bravery or self-sacrifice, yet is not celebrated or recognized. The […]
Halfway through the month of January and the Rockets find themselves very, very busy over the new little while. With a little over two weeks left in the month, the club has no less than nine regular season games before finishing off the regular season schedule in February. The Rockets will be heading […]
A pair of weekend losses (one at home and one on the road) for the Rockets on this weekend, as they continue to strive to gain ground in the Eddie Mountain Division standings. The club has shown lots of spark in recent games, however the team still looks towards a greater finishing touch […]
Tuesday, January 4th, 2022 Kimberley 6 Rockets 0 For the third time this season the Dynamiters, behind strong netminding, shutdown the Rockets offensive attack. Again, without sounding too dramatic about the final score, the Rockets played Kimberley very close for much of the contest. The first two periods were a ‘toss-up’; […]
Bobby Jo Love is a Kootenay International Junior Hockey League alumni, who is officiating in the Western Hockey League and has made the jump to working games in the American Hockey League. As a defenceman, Love made his debut in the KIJHL at 17 with the Sicamous Eagles in 2013-14 collecting six assists in 32 […]
An early Christmas treat for valley hockey fans with a home-and-home, two-game series between the Rockets and the Rockies. Going into the last few games before the break, Columbia Valley holds down first-place in the tough Eddie Mountain Division, while Golden is staying in the thick of the playoff race with games-in-hand over […]
