It’s now or never for the Kootenay Wildcats as the club plays host to Prince George Cougars in the best-of-three B.C. Female Midget AAA Hockey League playoff beginning Friday at the NDCC Arena in Nelson. “They’re really just a big strong team that likes to grind out games and to slow it down,” said Kootenay […]

The Beaver Valley Nitehawks took care of the Castlegar Rebels in the first two games of the Neil Murdoch playoffs — but it wasn’t easy. The Hawks needed an overtime tally by Ryan Edwards, his second of the game, to knock off the pesky Rebels and grab a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven Kootenay International […]

The West Kootenay Wildcats tuned up for the upcoming provincial tournament by finishing second at the Minor Hockey Bantam House Championships Sunday at the NDCC Arena. Despite hitting a few posts, the Cats lost 2-0 to Castlegar 1 in the final to grab the silver medal. Castlegar 1 finished the tournament undefeated. West Kootenay opened […]

It took the Beaver Valley Nitehawks a littte bit of time to solve the stingy Castlegar Rebel defence. But once the home team found its offence there was no stopping the Murdoch regular season champs. Craig Martin scored twice snapping a 1-1 tie to spark the Hawks to a hard-fought 4-1 decision in the opening […]

The final eight teams in the hunt for the Kootenay International Junior Hockey  League Championship have  been determined after Sicamous and Princeton won their respective game sevens Sunday. Locally, West Kootenay hockey fans have waited all season and now they have their feast as Murdoch winning Beaver Valley hosts rival Castlegar in the divisional final […]

It’s not the way the Kootenay Wildcats wanted to complete the B.C. Female Midget AAA Hockey League season. The Vancouver Fusion pulled off a two-game sweep of the Cats, winning 2-1 Saturday and 6-1 Sunday at the NDCC Arena. The two losses means Kootenay will finish fourth in the five-team league and host Prince George […]

In the end experience, and hitting anything and everything in a green and white jersey, paved the road for the Castlegar Rebels to advance into the second round of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League playoffs. First period goals by Anthony Delong and Cody Disher and less than three minutes apart snapped a 1-1 tie, […]

Stephanie McAuley of Trail had three points sparking Team Kootenay to a convincing 6-1 victory over North West in the consolation round of the 2012 B.C. Winter Games U16 Girl’s Hockey in Vernon. McAuley scored twice to spark Team Kootenay to a seventh-place finish in the tournament. Emma Hare of Nelson, Kira Steliev of Nakusp […]

By Bruce Fuhr, The Nelson Daily Man that’s playoff hockey — not! In a game that most definitely had coaches Frank Maida and Steve Junker searching the trainer’s room for bottles of Alka-Seltzer to help cure strong cases of acid indigestion, the Castlegar Rebels somehow managed to pull out a 7-6 Kootenay International Junior Hockey […]

By Bruce Fuhr, The Nelson Daily It was a Murphy’s Law second period for the Nelson Leafs. Whatever the Green and White touched, or didn’t touch, turned to . . . well, I think Leaf hockey fans understand. The Castlegar Rebels exploded for five second period goal en route to a 5-3 Murdoch Division semi […]