Yahoo were Jr A or something like it

Yahoo we’re Jr A or something like it

 Well the worst kept secret in all junior hockey happened this week when BC Hockey decided to reclassify all 45 BC Jr B teams as Junior A. 

But not real junior A, they are so mad at the BCHL for leaving Hockey Canada they made up a completely new American style tiering system just to get even. 

Modern Hockey I bet that makes em mad

So now Jr B will be called Jr A Tier 2 surprised they didn’t call it Division 2.

And next year, if your team qualifies, that’s a secret code for has enough money, they can  move to Junior A tier 1. 

No one knows what the qualifications will be, but for sure twenty or so teams won’t make it so there is a potential for Fernie fans to see something better than what we have, but if all 45 make it you will never see what is even close to a Jr A quality product. A long story on this is here 

When we find out what the qualifications are to be called  A1 we will tell you about them.

BC Hockey would also like to go to a 4 man referee system... but shoot themselves in the foot by banning the referees that they say they love so much from doing both sanctioned (us) and unsanctioned (BCHL) games. In Alberta they do both, but here they have a chance to pit one against the other so that’s what they are going to do.  BC Hockey stubbornly says they have enough referees, but Vegas probably has different odds.

And finally... the KIJHL was able to stop former Jr A teams from Quesnell and Williams Lake from joining their league a couple of years ago. But now with  BC Hockey in tantrum mode and making up new rules as they go, the KI may not be able to keep their footprint in tact, BC Hockey has way bigger feet.

Ghostrider News July 6/ 23

 Ghostrider Head Coach and GM Ty Valin has been busy lately signing players, arranging camps and a hockey school.

The Hockey School and Camp announcements were late coming out because they had to wait for the City to confirm the dates.

The Hockey School is from August 21st- 30th details are here and Main Camp is from September 1-3 details are here

The Ghostriders are in desperate need of Billet  families for next season, more information here

Could the Riders be classed as Junior A next season?

Well BC Hockey is so pissed off at the BCHL because they went outlaw and are not part of Hockey Canada anymore that they could allow the three Jr B leagues to call themselves Jr A. And we may have some sort of announcement next week...according to that gong show of only the truest of information- Twitter

If all those 40+ teams get JrA status they won’t really be junior A, everyone knows there simply aren’t  enough A players,  but they may be able to keep a few guys that ordinarily would move up to the SIJHL etc.

Also the various A leagues have decided to keep 25 players instead of 23. So literally dozens of junior A caliber players from the BCHL, AJHL, SJHL  etc won’t be available to us this year.

In other news, in Saskatchewan the SJHL will NOT be joining with the BCHL in their march to Pretoria or what ever it is. 

In that press release seen Here- the SJHL players voted 91% to pay more money for insurance so they would not have to wear full face shields. The KIJHL was never given that option.

The AJHL went to a full travel intense interlock schedule (you play all teams) and some franchises may not be able to keep going. Canmore says it will cost them another $65,000 this year- read that here 

Could it be that the AJHL just wants to cull the herd... several teams in the south are worried about money. 

The BCHL is going to shoot the same Buffalo with their free to play rule... all teams will have to be free to play in a few years, and they know full well that some of the Buff I mean teams won’t make it.

Keep that in mind if you are hoping Fernie will go Jr A. BC Hockey could have some expensive  surprises in-store for the unsuspecting governors... like maybe just allow 10 teams scattered throughout the Province. Get a good bus.

And finally, and not a moment too soon, have you noticed that several new leagues are popping up and they are all outlaw. One is the Junior Prospects league that is to be a feeder for the BCHL teams. Cranbrook is the latest to get a team . Hockey Canada is slowly losing their  grip on reality (and hockey) here in Canada... they may have to out some players read it here if you don’t remember