The season began on September 23, 2022, and finished on February 11, 2023,[1] with the playoffs beginning the following week and running until April 10 when the Kimberley Dynamiters defeated the Princeton Posse 3–2 in Princeton to win the Teck Cup Finals 4–3, for the fourth time in franchise history.
[5] The BCHC held its first annual prospects game in Chilliwack on November 22, 2022, with team KIJHL defeating the PJHL team 4–3 with Jonathan Ward of the Princeton Posse scoring the game-winning goal 2:09 into the third period.
[6] On December 31, 2022, all ten players dropped the gloves in a line brawl instigated by the Leafs at the start of the second period of the New Year's Eve Classic between the Neil Murdoch Division Rivals.
The brawl was possibly instagted by an open-ice hit on the Leafs' goaltender late in the first[7] or a cross-check to the head of a Leafs player at the buzzer that left his jersey covered in blood, as neither incidents earned a call the referee in charge of the game.
[11] As it happened the Creston Thundercats earned this crossover spot and the Neil Murdoch champion, Grand Forks chose to play them over the Beaver Valley Nitehawks.