The Selkirk Saints created a little more distance in B.C. Intercolligiate League standings by stopping Simon Fraser 5-2 in action Saturday in Castlegar. The 16-1 Saints now lead the Clan by five points with a game in hand but only after scoring the win with a third-period surge. The Saints’ magic number for clinching first […]

The Nelson Leafs stay in the luxury Murdoch Division penthouse suite officially ended Saturday night. And if the Green and White don’t right this ship in a hurry the living arrangements will only get worse. Dan Holland scored twice to lead Beaver Valley to a 5-3 Kootenay International Junior Hockey League victory over the Leafs […]

The Murdoch Division got a whole lot tighter after Friday’s action. Ryan Edwards and Dallas Calvin each had two points to lead the Beaver Valley Nitehawks to a 5-2 Kootenay International Junior Hockey League victory Friday night in Fruitvale. The win, coupled with a 3-2 Columbia Valley overtime victory over the Castlegar Rebels, moves the […]

Kam Crawford pinched in from the point to slam home a rebound and allowed the Saints to score a 5-4 overtime victory over Thompson Rivers University Friday night in B.C. Intercollegiate Hockey League action in Kamloops. “We had good efforts in the first and third periods but got away from working hard in our own […]

Cancer can be beaten. And West Kootenay Basketball Officials are doing their part to help fight the deadly disease by participating in the fourth annual BLOW the WHISTLE on CANCER — Pink Whistle campaign. The provincial campaign, which has the support of most hoop referees in the B.C. Basketball Officials Association, runs through the month […]

When Grand Forks head coach and GM Nick Deschenes dealt most of the team assets to contenders prior to the B.C. Hockey roster deadline in mid-January critics pounced on the Bruins skipper like vultures on road kill. The vultures were even more critical of Deschenes after the Bruins were first pounded 11-0 by Murdoch Division […]

The dreaded KIJHL website came back to bite The Nelson Daily prior to the posting of Sunday’s Nelson Leafs weekend wrap. Following Sunday’s 4-0 loss to Revelstoke, talk in the tunnel outside the Nelson dressing room had Spokane posting a 3-2 defeat of the Rebels in the Lilac City allowing the Leafs to continue to […]

The Cariboo Cougars made it look easy, waltzing into the NDCC Arena to grab all four points in a two-game B.C. Hockey League Major Midget League series against the Kootenay Ice this past weekend. However, the game was not what everyone was talking about after the weekend set concluded Sunday. Instead, everyone’s favourite topic of […]

The Selkirk Saints scored four times in the second period to bounce Eastern Washington University 5-3 in B.C. Intercollegiate Hockey League Sunday afternoon in Cheney, Washington. The win allowed the Saints to end the weekend at .500 after suffering its first loss of the season, 2-1 Friday night at home against Trinity Western University. “We […]

The Kootenay Wildcats just saw a perfect opportunity to climb up the B.C. Hockey Female Midget AAA standings slip through their fingers. The Prince George Cougars rallied from two deficits to steal three points from the Wildcats during the two-game B.C. Hockey Female Midget AAA League series in Nelson. Sunday, the Cougars fought back from […]