Category : The Death Pool
The Death Pool – Pay To Play Shakeup On The Way
As we head toward the start of many pay to play leagues in the 2024 – 2025 season, a big shakeup is looming on the...
The Death Pool – NJHL On Life Support?
The National Junior Hockey League, the league so “national” that all of its teams are in the Prvince of Alberta, looks like it may be...
The Death Pool – NJHL Gibbons Pioneers Vanish In Middle Of The Night
Another day, another NJHL failed franchise. The Gibbons Pioneers have pulled a vanishing act in Gibbons Alberta. David Copperfield was not reported in the Gibbons...
The Death Pool – NJHL Trying To Weasel Back Into Hinton Alberta
The NJHL, was up to its old tricks once again in Alberta. For those that dont remember, Hinton once had a team in the old...
The Death Pool – Tier 3 Over Recruiting To Cause Multiple Teams To Fold
As we approach the start of the 2023-2024 season, Tier II and Junior A teams are preparing to make their final cuts, and Tier 3...
The Death Pool – Annual Pay To Play Death Spiral Begins
Its mid August, and players are preparing to head around the world to there respective teams for the upcoming 2024-2025 season. The sun is shining...
The Death Pool – CAJHL Goes Dark
As we walk through the shadow of death we shall fear no recruiting. Yes, its that time of year boys and girls, its dying time....
The Death Pool – Billet Family Nightmares
We love the tradition of billet families in junior hockey. They can do so much for a player adjusting to a new comminuty and making...
The Death Pool – Worst Team In Junior Hockey – The Results Are In
The annual Worst Team In Junior Hockey contest has concluded. The votes have been tabulated, all hanging chads have been counted. We now annouce the...
The Death Pool – VIJHL Leaving Hockey Canada
And now things will get interesting. The Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League is leaving the confines of Hockey Canada and BC Hockey to strike out...
The Death Pool – Worst Team In Junior Hockey – Eight Days Left To Vote
With only eight days of voting left in the 2023-2024 Worst Team In Junior Hockey contest, we want to make sure the peoples opinion is...
The Death Pool – Worst Team In Junior Hockey Voting Open
We got some quality for this years worst team in junior hockey contest. When we say quality, we mean unusually bad teams in nearly every...
The Death Pool – Merritt Centennials Leave BCHL For KIJHL
Dont you just love when things come together as you predicted they would? Silly season has officially begun and it begins in the BCHL. No,...
The Death Pool – Annual Worst Team In North America Contest
We love some bad hockey. Bad organizations, bad coaches, bad players, terrible housing situations, and outright scam artists really keep things interesting. This season, there...
The Death Pool – Its Not Junior Hockey When …..
Junior hockey is a benefit to so many players and towns around the world. The positive impacts that can be made by players and organizations...
The Death Pool – 2024 And The Summer To Come
It was only about fifteen years ago when things in the United States began to change. Independent hockey was spearheaded by the Western States Hockey...
The Death Pool – Five AJHL Teams Leave Immediately For BCHL – But Its All About The Kids
Less than two weeks after the BCHL deliberately made a press release about five teams from the AJHL joining the BCHL for the 2024-2025 season,...
The Death Pool – As Many As 40 More Teams Talking About Leaving Hockey Canada
Hockey Canada is in trouble. Not simply because of the complete mishandling of sexual assault allegations and the coverup of payments made. Hockey Canada is...
The Death Pool – BCHL’s Reasons For Leaving Hockey Canada And AJHL Teams Reasons For Joining Not Supported By Facts
The BCHL left Hockey Canada this past summer of 2023. Good for them. Autonomy is one of the reasons the league made to move. Who...
The Death Pool – NA3HL Yellowstone Quake On Deaths Door
Here at the Death Pool, we love the NA3HL. This is a league that has given the Death Pool so much over the years, that...