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KIJHL Announce Home Openers For 2025/2026 Season

The KIJHL has announced the regular schedule and home openers for the 2025/2026 season.

The regular season starts on September 19, and each team will compete in 44 games during the regular season, which concludes on February 28, 2026.

During the season, the Cariboo Teams in the Doug Birks Division will host one game and play one game away with the Eddie Mountain Division.

The KIJHL has scheduled a short break-in-play in the winter, from December 21 to the 28. Barring any changes or delays, the 2026 playoffs will begin in early March.

Quesnel will be hosting the first home openers for the new season out of the Cariboo teams, hosting two home games on the KIJHL’s opening weekend.

The River Rush will host the Merritt Centennials on the first regular season day, Friday, September 19. Then the Rush will host the Williams Lake Mustangs on Sunday, September 21.

Quesnel will have one of the six feature games on Halloween this year.

The Mustangs have their home opener on Saturday, September 20, facing the Merritt Centennials. Then Williams Lake will head up to Quesnel the following day to start a three-game road trip before their second home game on Friday, October 3, against the Kamloops Storm.

The 100 Mile House Wranglers will have their first three games of the 2025/2026 season on the road before their first home game on Saturday, October 4, against the Merritt Centennials.

The Wranglers will face the Mustangs for the first time in another of the six Halloween feature games.

The exhibition games for the KIJHL have yet to be finalized. The KIJHL says they will release the exhibition games schedule in early August.

 

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Teryn Midzain
Teryn Midzain
Teryn is a News Reporter based in Quesnel, B.C. He started his career in local journalism in Abbotsford, B.C, where he attended the University of the Fraser Valley studying English and Media Communications. He spent six months living in London, UK, studying journalism and working in the field before returning to focus on building a long-term career. A passionate sports enthusiast, he moonlights as an amateur race car driver and plays Dungeons & Dragons when he is not on the clock or out in nature.

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