The Rockies are the Columbia Valley Rockies, a Junior B hockey team and members of the Eddie Mountain Division of the Kootenay Conference of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey (KIJHL). The team was founded by Eddie Mountain, for whom their home arena, and the KIJHL Division in which the Rockies play is named.
The Rockies won three straight KIJHL championships in the late 1980s and in 1989 took home the Cyclone Taylor Cup under the direction of Tom Renney, who went on to coach the Vancouver Canucks, New York Rangers, Edmonton Oilers and Team Canada
From Rockies Hockey.
When the Rockies or other minor league teams aren't either practising or playing, the arena is used for public skating, figure skating and other events. The arena opened for use in 1976. Seating capacity is not published anywhere we could find - it is somewhere between 500 and 1,000.
The Eddie Mountain Memorial Arena is home to the Columbia Valley Rockies of the KIJHL, along with a number of minor and recreational hockey programs, figure skating and public skating programs. Ice time can be rented.
The space upstairs is the venue for the annual Cowboy Dinner fundraiser during Invermere’s Summerlude festival. While the authentic cowboys ride the real bulls, the Rockies Hockey team host the beans and biscuits dinner at the arena.
From the Castlegar News