{"id":195162,"date":"2023-11-16T15:47:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T20:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=195162"},"modified":"2023-11-16T15:47:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T20:47:54","slug":"nelson-leafs-head-coach-selected-as-assistant-coach-for-bchc-prospects-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/nelson-leafs-head-coach-selected-as-assistant-coach-for-bchc-prospects-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Leafs head coach selected as assistant coach for BCHC prospects game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nelson Leafs head coach Briar McNaney has been selected as an assistant coach for the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League (KIJHL) team at this year's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kijhl.ca\/kijhl-roster-announced-for-bchc-prospects-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British Columbia Hockey Conference (BCHC) prospects game<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The BCHC is made up of two Junior A leagues in the province: the KIJHL and the Pacific Junior Hockey League (PJHL). Both leagues have created a team of the top players in their respective leagues. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each roster primarily consists of players born in 2006 and 2007 to showcase the young talent in the province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On being selected to help coach the team, McNaney says he's excited about the opportunity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThere are a lot of good young players around our league to showcase. I\u2019m very excited to be a part of it,\" he said. \"Obviously, a big opportunity for me as well as a bunch of young players.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In his first full season as head coach of the Nelson Leafs, McNaney has led the team to a 6-9-1 record. They are currently in fourth place in the Neil Murdoch Division.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The BCHC prospects game is on Nov. 28 in Kamloops.<\/p>\n<p><b>McNaney joined CJLY to speak about the BCHC prospects game and how the Nelson Leafs season has gone so far. Listen to the story below:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson Leafs head coach Briar McNaney has been selected as an assistant coach for the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League (KIJHL) team at this year&#8217;s British Columbia Hockey Conference (BCHC) prospects game. The BCHC is made up of two Junior A leagues in the province: the KIJHL and the Pacific Junior Hockey League (PJHL). Both&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":170510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,204],"tags":[32866,30610,32865,22248,32869,6186,32867,32868],"radio":[1420],"origine":[280,2165,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195346,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195162\/revisions\/195346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195162"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=195162"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=195162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}