Jasper’s youth were all over the ice and the slopes last weekend (March 1-2), putting pucks in nets and picking up cowbells. Let’s start with the Jasper Junior Olympics . The annual race at Marmot Basin is one of the largest youth ski races in North America, featuring 350 athletes from 5 to 11-years...

A skating trainer with a championship pedigree was back in the Jasper Arena recently, 25 years after he first got on the ice here. Gaston Schaeffer, a former Swiss junior champion figure skater who toured with the Ice Capades, Holiday on Ice and who coached in the 1988 Olympics, first came to Jasper...

A longtime Jasper hockey official has been recognized for his outstanding commitment to the game. When Glen Leitch moved to Jasper in 1997, joined a recreational hockey team (RIP JPL S**thawks) and was eventually recruited to referee the local men’s commercial league, the then 42-year-old had no ide...

As bears in Jasper National Park are emerging , the U11 and U13 Bears are going into hibernation after thrilling season enders in Cold Lake and Grande Cache The first weekend of spring break was a huge one for the Jasper minor hockey scene.  As mentioned a few weeks ago , both the U11 and U13 Bears ...

As of Monday, Jasper was third in league standings with 25 points (leader at 30) with 3 games in hand The Jasper U15 Bearcats won two out of three home games this past weekend, showing that even with a short bench they can out-skate bigger, brawnier opponents. The Bearcats went 2-1 this weekend, wit...

Jasper’s U11 Bears opened the season amid the chaos of missing dressing rooms , cancelled games due to ammonia leaks , and playing home games out of Hinton. Missing their home turf, the Bears were set to wrap up their tiering games on Heritage Classic weekend. Tiering games, played at the start of t...