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
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