Tuesday, February 8th, 2022 Creston 4 Rockets 3 For the second time in the last three games, sixty minutes wasn’t enough to decide a winner. Last Saturday, the Rockets pulled out an exciting 6-5 win over Fernie in a game requiring a player-shootout, and Tuesday saw their contest […]
The 2021-22 Kootenay International Junior Hockey League regular season wraps up on Feb. 19 and there are still two playoff spots mathematically available. This week’s KIJHL Notebook connects with the leaders of each team to talk about how their respective teams are playing as the season comes to a close. Eddie Mountain Division Kayde […]
Saturday, February 5th, 2022 Rockets 6 Fernie 5 Comeback game of the year for the Golden Rockets Saturday night at the Plywood Palace, as they tangled with the visiting Fernie Ghostriders. At one point, it appeared the southern centre had good control of the game (with a 3-goal lead) deep into […]
Friday, February 4th, 2022 Columbia Valley 4 Rockets 1 Friday night at the Plywood Palace featured the visiting Columbia Valley Rockies in town to take on the Rockets. Columbia Valley currently sits atop the standings in the highly-competitive Eddie Mountain Division of the KIJHL, and were looking to continue in […]
A good weekend for the Golden Rockets as they got busy with a three-game, southern-swing road trip, coming away with four hard-earned points in the standings. Friday, January 28th, 2022 Fernie 4 Rockets 1 Friday night in Fernie, the club was looking to avenge a 4-1 loss to the Ghostriders […]
Tuesday, January 25th, 2022 Columbia Valley 2 Rockets 1 Tuesday night’s game against the Columbia Valley Rockies completed a four-game homestand for the Rockets, and the local stars came to play in this one, matching talents with our valley rivals through the full sixty minutes. There wasn’t much room to […]
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 […]
