UPDATE, MONDAY, MARCH 31:
Burke scored in each of the first two games of the Kootenay Conference Championship, helping the Border Bruins to a 2-0 series lead over Kimberley.
Grand Forks won the opener 6-4, then blanked the Dynamiters 6-0.
The series resumes Tuesday in Kimberley.
Janz scored in each game as the 100 Mile House Wranglers earned a split of the first two games of the Okanagan Conference Championship with the defending Teck Cup winners, the Revelstoke Grizzlies.
Revy won the opener, 7-3, before 100 Mile bounced back with a 4-0 win in Game 2. Webster had a goal in the Wranglers' victory.
Game 3 goes Monday, March 31, in the South Cariboo.
ORIGINAL STORY
Tyler Burke has the Grand Forks Border Bruins in uncharted territory.
The Vernon hockey player has the Border Bruins four wins away from playing in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League's Teck Cup championship series for the first time in more than a half-century.
Only once has Grand Forks ever advanced to the league final, and that was more than 50 years ago, back in 1973-74, when they lost to the Cranbrook Colts.
Burke was named the league's First Star of the Week after scoring four goals and adding two assists in two games, to go along with a plus-three rating, as Grand Forks swept the Beaver Valley Nitehawks 4-0 to win the Neil Murdoch Division playoff banner.
The Border Bruins won Game 3, 4-3 in overtime, with Burke scoring the winner to cap off a three-point night which he duplicated in Game 4, a 6-2 Grand Forks win to complete the sweep.
Grand Forks is 8-0 in the post-season 鈥� the only team left without a loss 鈥� and Burke has five goals and 11 points in those contests. He put up 33-39-72 in all 44 regular-season contests.
The Border Bruins will face the Kimberley Dynamiters in the Kootenay championship series starting Friday night, March 28, in Grand Forks.
Former Summerland Steam forward Tristan Weil of West 麻豆精选 had 3-10-13 in 11 playoff games for the Nitros, who are the playoff champions of the Eddie Mountain Division. Weil had 22-28-50 in 43 regular-season games.
Remy Spooner of West 麻豆精选 has 5-5-10 in 11 playoff games for the Dynamiters. He had 9-7-16 in 20 regular-season contests.
The Okanagan championship sees the Bill Ohlhausen Division and reigning KIJHL champion Revelstoke Grizzlies with home-ice advantage as they tangle with the 100 Mile House Wranglers, winners of the Doug Birks Division playoff banner.
Nelson Webster and Landen Janz, both from Lake Country, are with the Wranglers. Janz has 1-1-2 in nine post-season games after collecting eight goals and 31 points in 42 regular-season games.
Webster has played in 12 playoff contests, scoring twice and picking up five points. He had 10-25-35 in 42 regular-season games.
The Wranglers have been to the Teck Cup final once, winning it all in 2015-16, when they beat Kimberley in the final.
The Dynamiters have been to the league final five times since 2009-10, going 3-2. Their last title was in 2022-23, and they lost to the Grizzlies in the 2018-19 championship.
Revelstoke has appeared in three of the last four league championships, and has been to six finals since 2009-10, going 5-1.
There were no Teck Cup finals played in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19.
Grizzlies goalie Devin Degenstein was the league's Third Star of the Week (Top Goalie), earning three wins in four games, compiling a stingy 0.82 goals against average, and a .978 save percentage.
Border Bruins blueliner Logan McCabe was the Second Star (Top Defenceman) for a second consecutive week. He set up Burke's overtime winner against Beaver Valley, and added 1+1 in the 6-2 clincher.
Both Conference Finals are best-of-seven affairs.
UPDATE 2, MONDAY, MARCH 31:
The KIJHL champion will face the Pacific Junior Hockey League champion Ridge Meadows Flames of Maple Ridge for the Mowat Cup.
The Flames won a second-straight PJHL title with a 5-1 victory Delta, claiming the Stonehouse Cup in six games.
ORIGINAL
鈥� On the Lower Mainland, the Delta Ice Hawks and Ridge Meadows Flames 鈥� champions of their respective conferences in the regular season 鈥� are tied 2-2 in their best-of-seven Pacific Junior Hockey League Stonehouse Cup league championship.
It's the third straight trip to the finals for the defending champion Flames, while Delta is back in the final for the first time since 2023, when they knocked off Ridge Meadows in the finale.
The last two league championships have gone seven games.
The Ice Hawks advanced to the final with a 4-1 series win over the Richmond Sockeyes in the Tom Shaw Conference Championship.
Vernon's Nicholas Noren appeared in all 11 playoff games for the Fish. He scored four goals and chipped in eight helpers for 12 points after going 33-55-88 in 46 regular-season games.
Charlie Swartz of Vernon got into two post-season games for Richmond, but was kept off the scoresheet. Swartz played in 22 games during the season, scoring six goals and finishing with 15 points in his rookie season.
Cole Gartner of Vernon had eight assists in 30 regular-season games for the Sockeyes. He only played in one playoff contest.
Ridge Meadows swept the Harold Brittain Conference final, 4-0, over the Chilliwack Jets.
Lake Country's Jayden Farthing played in six of the eight Chilliwack post-season games, failing to register a point. Farthing had 3-8-11 in 38 games during the regular season.
