Shoot out ends tie…
File photo of a Princeton Merritt past engagement.
Friday the 21st of November 2025 Merritt gone over to Kimberly in the KIJHL…wins by by one…
Tag Archive: Junior Hockey
The Merritt Centennials played to 725 fans in the Nicola valley memorial arena in Merritt tonight.
The team scored twice to the visiting Wiliams Lake team’s 4 recorded goals.
Action in Merritt file photo.
The Centennials hockey team is a part of the KIJHL.
The next game is on the 21st in Kimberly.
The Centennials are facing the Asoyoos team tonight in Merritt and it’s a couple minutes left in the second, and the Centennials are leading 621.
Update
The second period is over and the Centennials are leading seven to one, going into the final period.
The club is having their postponed Icebreaker tomorrow in Merritt. The social event will be a buzz with the record of the young Junior B team.
Post Script
Tonight’s game ended after the 3rd period in an eight to two advantage of the Merritt Centennials team, this was seen by 872 fans which is considerably up from the previous games. It all helps
The Salmon Arm Silverbacks ended the advance of the BCJHL Merritt team in the playoffs on Monday with a 3 to 1 victory at the Nicola Valley Memorial Arena. Salmon Arm will advance without the need of a seventh game to the next level of play. Editors Note : The final score was 4-1 in the favour of Salmon Arm Silverbacks.
The retirement of the Merritt Centennials team also included its 51 year relationship with the BCJHL. The team has joined the KJHL league and is inviting tryouts to its spring camp starting on April 18th.
Retired accountant from Merritt remembers being the first %
Merritt Centennials logo on KIJHL site
KIJHL in review
The Kootenay International Junior A League, commonly known as KIJHL, currently consists of 20 teams. Some of the teams include the Beaver Valley Nitehawks, Creston Valley Thunder Cats, Kimberley Dynamiters, and Nelson Leafs.
A progressive sport…
The junior hockey team the Merritt Centennials in its 48th year in Merritt is involved in show games now with their first game last Friday. They are competing for the Barnes cup but come December they will have broadcast games on available by a subscription .
Good luck good sports person ship…
On this Day: October 14th 1957
The Queen opens the Canadian Parliament in Person.
File Photo
The local junior hockey club had 80 hopefuls at their main camp this year. The club was carrying 30 when they had their exhibition game on the 24th in Merritt. The Cents lost 5 to 2 to the Pentiction Vees. The next exhibition contest is in Prince George tonight with the Spruce KIngs.
On this Day: August 27th 1920
Five Canadian women ask the person question of the SCC.
The local Merritt Junior hockey team is having a Teddy bear toss at their game with the Nanaimo Clippers on Saturday the 8th of December 2018.
Be ready at the first goal.
Fans are to be ready to through their bears on the Ice at the first goal.
Start time 7PM
The game starts at the Nicola Valley Memorial arena at 7:PM
On this Day: December 7th 1982
The first lethal injection capital crimes remedy is used in the US.
Cooking hamburgers for hockey File photo KDG
Centennials season tickets for the next local BCHL hockey season are on sale now. The local Merritt hockey team had a camp for players on the weekend and are offering early bird season ticket prices until April 30th.
The Merritt hockey team was formed in 1973 and is the oldest franchise in the league. website
On this Day: April 12th 1934
A wind gust of 231 miles an hour is recorded at the summit of mount Washington, New Hampshire.
Cooking hamburgers
for hockey
File photo KDG
The Nicola Valley Memorial Arena has had ice two weeks, this after noon a pile of snow from the a cleaning shows the activity from a hockey school.
The long time BCJHL hockey team will start its local camp on Monday here. The Merritt Centennials stared with the league here with the 1973-74 season and have made the playoffs more then 30 times since.
The team has its first exhibition game on August 23rd 3 days into camp.
On this Day: August 16th 1962
Pete Best leaves the Beatles making room for Ringo Star.
Cooking hamburgers
for hockey
File photo KDG
Junior A hockey camp is on in Merritt 44 young men are trying for 22 spots for the 2016/17 season for the Merritt Centennials BCHL hockey team.
The team is the oldest franchise in the league and has may professional players coming from its operations including Ed Beers and Paul Kruse. A pre camp was held in June in Abbotsford inviting 15 – 19 year olds to try out.
The over 4 decades of hockey in Merritt has also produced serious support including a booster club, media support and a committed fan base .The team didn’t make the playoffs last season.
Merritt Hockey selling season tickets at the Granite and Voght office.
File photo KDG
On this Day: August 25th 2012
Voyager 1 enters interstellar space.
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