BC Prospects Update...

[Malc]

(Idea taken from Andy Kemper's blog)
Regarding the Rockets '92 draft year prospects from British Columbia.

Each year, BC Hockey holds Male U17 High Performance Program camps to determine the players that will ultimately represent BC and Team Pacific in the U17 championships.

This year, 276 players were invited to take part in the camps, spread out in six different districts across BC. From those players, 120 were chosen to take part in the BC Cup tournament to be held at the end of this month.

All but one (Jamie Lively) of the Rockets '92 BC draft year players selected in last May's Bantam Draft have made this cut:
Spencer Main (F)
Patrick Fairclough (G)
Colton Jobke (D)
Brett Bulmer (F)

Those 4, and the other 116 invitees, will compete as BC Hockey seeks to reduce the number to 46 prior to the Provincial Development Camp to be held in the summer.

Of those 46, 11 players will be selected to represent BC on Team Pacific in the next U17 Championships.

For more information, go to: http://www.bchockey.net/HighPerformance/MaleHPUnder17.aspx

[Malc]

First, B.C. Next, the world? 120 players competed at the recent U17 B.C. Cup competition in Mission, and 3 of the Rockets '92 B.C. draft year prospects were among the 48 hockey players invited to July‘s under-17 provincial development camp in Nanaimo, the next step in making the squad that will play in the 2009 World U-17 Hockey Challenge:
Spencer Main (F) Vancouver NW Giants MML
Patrick Fairclough (G) Campbell River MHA
Colton Jobke (D) Greater Van. Canadians MML
Also invited is Nicholas Amies (D) Kamloops MHA who is a Kelowna listed player.

The goal of the camp, which runs July 21 to 26, is to evaluate the top talent in B.C., and short-list 18 players, of which 11 will be selected November 15 to join 11 players from Alberta, to form Team Pacific 2009 at the U-17 worlds.

For more information, go to: http://www.bchockey.net/NewsItem.aspx?id=344

[Malc]

BC Hockey announced the twenty-one (21) players short listed for the 2009 World Under 17 Hockey Challenge, hosted by the Port Alberni Region from December 29, 2008 to January 4, 2009. The evaluation process of the short listed players will now begin and last until mid November when the team staff will select the eleven (11) players to represent one half of Team Pacific. The selected BC players will join the eleven (11) players from Alberta, to form the 2009 version of Team Pacific.

2 of the Rockets '92 B.C. draft year prospects were among the 21 hockey players:
Spencer Main (F) Vancouver NW Giants MML
Colton Jobke (D) Greater Van. Canadians MML
Also invited is Mitch Chapman (D) Okanagan Hockey Academy who is a Kelowna listed player.

For more information, go to: http://www.bchockey.net/NewsItem.aspx?id=373