| Cloverdale Junior Hockey Club | |
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| City | Cloverdale, British Columbia |
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| League | PJHL |
| Conference | Tom Shaw |
| Founded | 2025 |
| Home arena | Cloverdale Arena |
| Franchise history | |
| 2025-present | Cloverdale Junior Hockey Club |
| Previous franchise history | |
| Championships | |
The Cloverdale Junior Hockey Club are a Junior ice hockey team in the Pacific Junior Hockey League (PJHL) based in Cloverdale, British Columbia. It will debut as an expansion team in the 2025–26 PJHL season.
On May 3, 2025 the league announced the addition of an expansion Tier 2 Junior A team that will temporarily be called the Cloverdale Junior Hockey Club to be based out of the community of Cloverdale, British Columbia. The team will be based out of the Cloverdale Arena for the first two seasons until the planned 2027 opening of the Cloverdale Sport & Ice Complex. This marks the return to the community of junior A hockey since the Cloverdale Cowboys who played in the West Coast Junior Hockey League for the 1977-78 and 1978-79 seasons.[1]
Beginning in the 2025–26 season, the league will be divided into two tiers.[2] Seven of the league's 15 clubs will be promoted to tier 1, including the Chilliwack Jets, Coastal Tsunami, Delta Ice Hawks, Grandview Steelers, Langley Trappers, Richmond Sockeyes and Ridge Meadows Flames.[3] Tier 2 will include the Abbotsford Pilots, Aldergrove Kodiaks, Mission City Outlaws, North Vancouver Wolf Pack, Port Coquitlam Trailblazers, Port Moody Panthers, Surrey Knights and White Rock Whalers.[4]
The team would no longer be listed on the league's website by the start of the 2025-26 regular season on September 4th.[5] The team had last played a pre-season game on August 31st.[6]
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References[]
- ↑ https://www.pjhl.net/the-pjhl-welcomes-new-cloverdale-tier-2-junior-a-franchise-for-2025-26-season
- ↑ Kootenay International Junior Hockey League (18 March 2025). KIJHL league structure to change for 2026-27 season. Press release.
- ↑ "PJHL move to 2 tiers will divide 15 junior hockey teams next season", Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News, Black Press Media, 18 March 2025. (en)
- ↑ "Fraser Valley teams split by PJHL alignment set for next season", The Chilliwack Progress, Black Press Media, 18 March 2025. (en)
- ↑ https://thejuniorhockeynews.com/the-death-pool-turf-wars-teams-folding-changing-schedules-and-player-hoarding/
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/cloverdalejuniorhockey/posts/pfbid0gyPnzViN8W34F6VXc1zFg9p5HMwf9Hgu9tKeaNhKaTBMtMNhbU2obS7uUVWjxSaul
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