REVELSTOKE GRIZZLIES HOST AND WIN CYCLONE TAYLOR CUP

THE GRIZZLIES SERVED AS HOSTS, HOISTING THE CYCLONE TAYLOR CUP AT HOME.

By Revelstoke Mountaineer staff

The Revelstoke Grizzlies have won the Cyclone Taylor Cup, the BC Junior B Hockey Championship tournament, winning the final game 4-1 over KIJHL rivals and champions Kimberley Dynamiters on April 16.

The tournament sees the winners of each of three Junior B leagues — the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League, the Pacific Junior Hockey League, and the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League — play for the championship cup, along with the host team. The Grizzlies, who lost to the Princeton Posse in the KIJHL Okanagan-Shuswap Conference Finals, the semi-finals for the KIJHL, participated in the tournament as the host team and went all the way to win the cup.

In 2023, the tournament featured the Revelstoke Grizzlies, the Delta Ice Hawks, the Oceanside Generals, and the Kimberley Dynamiters.

Grizzlies forward Carter Bettenson earned the tournament MVP honour.