The Coastal Tsunami are a

Junior ice hockey Junior ice hockey is amateur-level ice hockey for 16 to 20 year-old players. National Junior teams compete annually for the IIHF World Junior Championship. The United States men's national junior ice hockey team are the defending champions from ...

team in the Pacific Junior Hockey League (PJHL) based in

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on the

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. It will debut as an expansion team in the 2024–25 PJHL season.

Arena

The team will play its home games in the Gibsons & Area Community Centre. The building opened in 2008 and is owned by the

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. The Sunshine Coast Junior Hockey Society (SCJHS) funded improvements to the building, including seating upgrades and construction of new dressing rooms, that were expected to be completed before the 2024–25 PJHL season. The SCJHS also secured the donation of a four-panel video display score clock that it hoped could be installed and operational in time for the inaugural season. The display was donated by the

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and used to hang above centre-ice at the

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. The

has not confirmed whether the score clock will be installed in the arena.

Team identity

The team name was chosen by the owners from among the approximately 250 submissions from the public. The name ''Tsunami'' was submitted four times. Other submissions included references to ''

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'' television series that was shot in

from 1972–1990 and remains an important cultural relic for the community, and ''The Blues'', after the name used by Sunshine Coast Minor Hockey. The team's colours are based on those used by the

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. The official logo was designed by local designer John Ridd of Topshelf Creative. A secondary logo design featured a trident with a "C" curved around it as a reference to

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, God of the sea, storms, earthquakes, and horses in

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Inaugural season

The team was founded at a time of significant flux for

. In 2023, governing body

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announced plans to restructure its

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framework following the decision of its only Junior A league, the

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, to become an independent league. The three Junior B leagues ( PJHL,

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and

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) were summarily designated as "Junior A Tier 2", with plans to conduct an independent evaluation of those teams seeking to be promoted to "Junior A Tier 1". It was expected that those teams promoted to Tier 1 would eventually apply for membership in the CJHL. In April 2024, the

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announced that it would withdraw from the

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framework and become an independent farm league for the

in the 2024–25 season. The league expected the evaluations to be completed during the 2024–25 season. In the 2024–25 season, Hockey Canada and its four western affiliates –

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and

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– will pilot the Western Canadian Development Model (WCDM). Under the WCDM,

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will adopt most of the

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rulebook, excluding some sections, and restrictions on 15-year-old affiliate players in the

will be loosened. Players that will be 18-years of age or older in the calendar year will be allowed to choose whether to use full-face protection or half-face protection, whilst younger players will be required to use full-face protection. Beginning in the 2025–26 season, the league will be divided into two tiers. Seven of the league's 15 clubs will be promoted to tier 1, including the

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, Coastal Tsunami,

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, Langley Trappers,

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and

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. Tier 2 will include the

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, Mission City Outlaws, North Vancouver Wolf Pack,

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and

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Season-by-season record

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References

Additional reading

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External links

Coastal Tsunami official website

PJHL official website

Town of Gibsons

Sunshine Coast Regional District

Sunshine Coast Junior Hockey Society
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