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The North Peace Hockey League is hoping that they can get in a full season this year. League President Jack McAvoy says the teams have had meetings with Hockey Alberta but there isn’t a start date for

The High Prairie Red Wings are getting ready for this season with a new head coach behind the bench. Kevin Hopfner has been coaching in BC for the past 10 years and also played for the Regals

We’re a step closer to another season for the NWJHL taking place. All six teams can start training camps, and the North Peace Navigators will have their’s from October 2-4. As for how many players will be

Teams in the NWJHL are still playing the waiting game for when this season will start. Fairview Flyers head coach and GM Lance Wiebe says the league is still waiting for approval from Hockey Alberta before they

The GMHL is looking at possibly adding a team in Grimshaw next season. The league already has a presence in the region with a team in High Prairie, and the GMHL’s expansion director Derek Prue says they’ve

Curling Canada’s return to play guidelines could lead to the sport of curling looking a little bit different next season. Danny Lamoureux, Curling Canada’s director of curling club development, says some of the recommendations include the use

Health and Safety are among the main priorities for Hockey Alberta in their return to play policy. Blake Cosgrove, Hockey Alberta’s regional manager for the Northwest, says teams and minor hockey organizations will have to work closely

A local player from the Peace Region has been named by Hockey Canada to the national women’s under-18 summer camp roster. Spirit River’s Dayle Ross says she was surprised when she received the camp invitation, but is

The GMHL’s High Prairie Red Wings have added some more local talent to their organization. At the GMHL Draft, the Red Wings drafted a pair of High Prairie products who spent last season with the Peace River

There may not be a Wheatbelt Baseball League season this year, but there may be some games taking place this summer. Grimshaw Huskies player and coach Ty Wiebe says he’s had talks with some of the other

While a coach and executive with the Manning Comets hockey club believes the NPHL season will start on time, there are some concerns with how the after effects of the pandemic could have on the team. Greg

The North Peace Navigators offseason has had to work a little differently this summer. Navs GM Mike Fosty says because of the restrictions from the pandemic, the process of recruiting players has been impacted the most. “We

One of the owners of the Mighty Peace Golf Club says their preparations for this season were affected by the restrictions from the pandemic. Dave Allen says they thought they wouldn’t be able to open as soon

The North Peace Navigators are continuing to honour the legacy of former head coach Darcy Haugan. Haugan was one of the victims of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash which happened two years ago today. Navs GM Mike

The outbreak of the coronavirus has brought an abrupt end to the hockey season across Canada. Hockey Canada in conjunction with Hockey Alberta and all of the other provincial bodies has cancelled and postponed all sanctioned league

The list of sporting events that have been either cancelled or postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak has now hit the Peace Region. The NWJHL has announced that the championship series between the North Peace Navigators and

The Peace River Soccer Association has their fundamentals festival coming up on April 19. John Clubb, manager of grassroots development with the Alberta Soccer Association, says this event is mainly about getting more coaches involved with youth

The North Peace Navigators will be up against one of their biggest rivals in the NWJHL finals. They will be facing the Fort St. John Huskies for the league championship. The Huskies won six of the eight

The Peace River Royals begin their postseason this week as they will host one of the regional tournaments in the Northern Alberta Hockey League. The Royals will face their division rivals from Grande Prairie, Whitecourt and Fort

The Campbell Cup is on the line as the Grande Prairie Athletics and the Dawson Creek Canucks battle in the NPHL finals. Dawson Creek is the number one seed and swept Grimshaw in the second round. Grande

The other second round matchup in the NWJHL pits the Fort St. John Huskies against the Fairview Flyers in the semi-finals. Fort St. John is the number 1 seed with a 33-5-2 record for 66 points. Fairview

We’re into the second round of the playoffs in the NWJHL. One of the semi-final matchups has the North Peace Navigators against the Dawson Creek Canucks. North Peace is the number two seed with a 25-13-2 record

The AJHL playoffs start this weekend and Fairview’s Cole Basnett is hoping for a deep run with the Spruce Grove Saints. Spruce Grove finished in second place in the AJHL’s North Division and will face the Grande

The North Peace Hockey League has announced their award winners for the 2019-20 season. Taking home the award for league MVP is Grande Prairie Athletics goaltender Kiefer Smiley. He posted an 8-2 record and lead the league

The other first round series in the NWJHL playoffs will get underway tonight between the Dawson Creek Canucks and the Sexsmith Vipers. Dawson Creek is the #3 seed with a record of 22-14-4 for 48 points. Sexsmith

The NWJHL playoffs get underway tonight. One of the first round matchups has the Fairview Flyers facing the Grande Prairie Kings. Fairview is the #4 seed with a 21-15-4 for 46 points. Grande Prairie is the #5

The other semi-final matchup in the NPHL playoffs has the Dawson Creek Canucks facing the Grimshaw Huskies. Dawson Creek is the number one seed after a 15-1-2 record for 32 points in the regular season. The fifth

The second round of the NPHL playoffs will start this weekend. One of the matchups will have the Grande Prairie Athletics facing the Manning Comets. Grande Prairie is the number two seed with a 14-3-1 record for

We’re down to the last week of the regular season for the NWJHL. All six teams have just two games left to get ready for the playoffs. A few teams still have some things to play for

The first round of the NPHL playoffs are here as the Grimshaw Huskies and Falher Pirates will face each other in the first round. The Pirates are the four seed with a 6-12 record for 12 points,

Only a few games are left in the regular season for the NWJHL. The playoff picture got slightly clearer last week with the Grande Prairie Kings now locked into the number five seed. There’s still a logjam

We’re into the last week of the regular season and there’s still some shuffling around for playoff spots that can happen. Dawson Creek has clinched the number 1 seed, Grande Prairie is at number 2 and Grimshaw

A hockey player from High Level is adjusting to his first season in the AJHL. Cameron Beson is a goaltender with the Fort McMurray Oil Barons. He says his head coach, Gord Thibodeau, has been a positive

We’re getting closer and closer to the end of the regular season in the NWJHL. Two teams are locked into their playoff seeds (Fort St. John at #1 and Sexsmith at #6) while seeds #2-#5 are still

Only two weeks are left in the regular season for the North Peace Hockey League. All five teams only have a few games left until the start of the Campbell Cup Playoffs. The regular season wraps up

We’re into the stretch drive with less than a month left in the regular season. All six teams have less than 10 games left before the post-season will begin. The league champions will go to Junior B

Spirit River hockey player Tessa Ross says her first season at Red Deer College has been going well for her. Ross previously played at the Edge School in Calgary and says the culture there was “really welcoming”

Not even the NWJHL is safe from the wrath of mother nature. The game on Saturday between the North Peace Navigators and the Fort St. John Huskies had to be postponed because of mechanical issues with the

Everyone is back in action around the NWJHL as all six teams resume their schedules. Every team has about 12 or 13 games left in the regular season which will end on February 16. The playoff format

The calendar moving to 2020 means the NWJHL season will resume this week. All six teams have about 15 games left on their schedules for the regular season which ends on February 16. After that, the playoffs

‘Twas the week before Christmas and in the NWJHL, all six teams want to be playing well. A two week break is in their sights, as everyone turns on the Christmas lights. Before we go into the

We’re now into the second half of the league schedule as we get closer to the holiday break. All six teams will be off from December 22 to January 2. Everyone will be trying to get some

Some of the top junior hockey players in the world will be in Dawson Creek this week. The World Junior A Challenge will run from December 7-15. Jason La Rose, manager of content services with Hockey Canada,

The AJHL’s Grande Prairie Storm will play in a very unique hockey game tomorrow night. The Storm will play the Czech Republic national team in an exhibition game for the World Junior A Challenge happening in Dawson