On Friday, the league announced that the Steam had been sold and will relocate to Williams Lake, where they’ll become the Mustangs.
The Princeton Posse and Revelstoke Grizzlies will slug it out in the Okanagan-Shuswap conference final, with the Beaver Valley Nitehawks and Fernie Ghostriders set to do battle in the Kootenay conference final.“The sale and move was approved unanimously by the KIJHL’s board of governors and will take effect immediately,” the league said in a release.
Attendance issues are likely why the team relocated. The largest home crowd this season was 254 on Oct. 6, a 6-5 overtime win against Osoyoos. Most attendance figures were less than 150, with the smallest being 102.“The KIJHL would like to thank all those individuals who worked incredibly hard over many years as part of the Summerland Steam organization, including the team’s many volunteers and billets, as well as their fans,” said commissioner Jeff Dubois.
By then, the league was known as the Rocky Mountain Junior Hockey League after the merger of the PCJHL and the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League in 1991.
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