WESTERN HIGH FIVE

With five Alberta squads set to join the BCHL, the Jr. A landscape in Canada continues a monumental shift. What will be the next domino to fall?

WITH RYAN KENNEDY

YOU DON’T OFTEN GET a tectonic shift in developmental hockey, let alone two in such quick succession. But the January announcement that five of the Alberta Jr. A League’s top franchises would be leaving for the B.C. Jr. A League certainly qualifies as a second, and it comes just one season after the BCHL itself went independent from Hockey Canada’s national structure. The two moves are a major change in the power dynamics at that level, as the BCHL and AJHL have long been the elite class of Canada’s Jr. A leagues. The fact this new super-sized circuit will operate outside Hockey Canada’s purview opens up the issue further and raises the question: what’s next? But let’s backfill for a second. The BCHL left the CJHL in 2021 – and Hockey Canada…

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