Kimberly at Merritt 7 pm start,Nicola Valley Arena.
Kamloops at Merritt Saturday, 7:00 p.m. start.
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The Centennials are in Quesnel for the weekend. The team will be home next weekend to start three home games meeting Kimberly, then Kamloops and next the Grand Forks Border Bruins.
The Merritt Centennials have over a half century of tenure in Merritt, British Columbia, with junior hockey. The team has in recent time reorganized to the new league province-wide named The British Columbia Hockey Conference.
Junior A Hockey, Merritt
Tonight the Merritt Centennials ended 51 consecutive years of play, positive presence posed…
Itelca Gillispie, Merritt Centennials.
at the Granite and Voght office.
File photo KDG
Good luck Merritt Centennials hockey players and your move to the KHL league.
The end of 51 years,they remain a force in Merritt.
Looking ahead
2026/2027 Season Seeking Billets
Game start at 7PM Pacific, game center Sicamous, BC
Scheduled January 17 2026
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…
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.
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