NANAIMO - The Clippers and Grizzlies will play in the only all Vancouver Island series in the first round of the BCHL playoffs.It's Nanaimo's first series against an island club since a first round matchup against Alberni Valley in 2020.The Clippers and Grizzlies last went head to head in the post season in 2017 when V...

NANAIMO - The goalie who led the Clippers to the BCHL finals in 2022 has signed a two-year entry level contract with the Florida Panthers.Cooper Black just finished his second year playing NCAA Division 1 hockey at Dartmouth where he posted a 13-8-8 record with a 2.58 goals against average and a .910 save percentage.Th...

NANAIMO - A battle for playoff positioning ended with the Chilliwack Chiefs beating the Clippers 3-2 in the regular season finale.The Chiefs led 2-1 after the opening period with Nanaimo's Dylan Kinch and Chilliwack's Willyam Gendron scoring against their former teams.Stone Rolston also tallied for the Chiefs.Of note f...

NANAIMO - The Clippers Brett Merner is playing his final regular season games for his hometown team.In game 53 of Nanaimo's 54 game schedule the captain and three year veteran played overtime hero to complete a dynamic comeback versus the Rivermen.After the first period the Clippers were down 1-0 on a Tuukka Heiskanen ...

NANAIMO - The Clippers regular season is rapidly coming to a close and for the team's oldest players, it means their time in a junior hockey is ending.Emmett McHardy, Luke Buss, Noah Alvarez, Isa Parekh and Gabriel Westling will be moving on to the next chapters of their lives at the conclusion of this spring's BCHL pl...

LANGLEY - The Clippers losing streak is up to five games after a 4-2 setback in Langley.In the first period the Rivermen vaulted into a 2-0 lead on goals by Logan Morrell and Vitaly Levyy.Connor DeTurris on the man advantage scored the only goal of the second period to get Nanaimo back within a goal.But it was the Rive...

SURREY - The Clippers were on the wrong side of a wild night of offense in Surrey.Nanaimo lost 10-6 in a contest they never led.Surrey was up 3-1 after twenty minutes with the Clippers lone goal going to Isa Parekh, his second in as many games.The game was 7-3 in the Eagles favour after the second.Joel Plante and Cole ...

NANAIMO - Just ahead of their final four games to solidify playoff positioning, the Clippers have brought in a highly touted affiliate defenceman.2007-born blueliner Sean Barnhill is a draft pick of the Dubuque Saints in the USHL and just finished a very successful season with U16 Arizona Junior Coyotes. He's also alre...

NANAIMO - Battling through injury and illness the Clippers earned a point in a 3-2 overtime loss in Vernon.The game was played in front of just a couple of hundred people on the secondary ice sheet at Kal Place North because of an ice chiller issue with the Vipers regular arena.Almost all the scoring was done in he fir...

CHILLIWACK - The Clippers got into an early hole against Chilliwack that was just too big to crawl out of.In a 5-2 road loss the Chiefs Jack Sparkes, Caleb Elfering and Matt Argentina scored goals in the first seven minutes of the game.The first period ended 3-0 and Chilliwack added a fourth goal before the second inte...