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The 2024–25 BCHL season is the 63rd season of the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) and its second season as an independent league. [1] League changes.
The British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) is an independent Canadian Junior ice hockey league with 21 teams in British Columbia and Alberta. It was classified as a Junior "A" league within the Hockey Canada framework, until it became independent in 2023 .
Changes to the league alignment and schedule that were originally to take place during the 2020–21 BCHL season came into effect. The Prince George Spruce Kings and Cranbrook Bucks joined the seven teams in the Interior Division to form the Interior Conference and the remaining nine teams from the Mainland and Island divisions were merged into the Coastal Conference. [3]
On 31 March 2024, it was announced that the Merritt Centennials would be ceasing BCHL operations at the end of the 2023-24 BCHL season. [32] It was further announced that an expansion team would join the KIJHL under new ownership beginning in the 2024–25 season as part of the Bill Ohlhausen Division.
The 2020–21 BCHL season is the 59th season of the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL).Originally, eighteen teams from the Interior and Coastal Conferences were to play 54-game schedules, but due to delays caused by COVID-19 pandemic, sixteen teams played 20-game schedules in five "pods" of three or four teams each.
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The BCHL franchise was founded as the Richmond Sockeyes in 1972 in the Pacific Junior A Hockey League.In 1990, Sockeyes dropped to the junior B level and sold the junior A franchise to become the Chilliwack Chiefs.
In 1996, the Spruce Kings bought out the BCHL rights of the Outlaws, using the rights to move the Spruce Kings into the BCHL. The Prince George Spruce Kings hosted the Royal Bank Cup in 2007. They lost in an anticlimactic final after surviving a record-setting quintuple overtime match in the semi-final versus the Camrose Kodiaks .