The Cannex Cochrane Generals finished the 2024-2025 regular season in fourth place among the Heritage Junior Hockey League’s (HJHL) six southern division teams. In the playoffs, after beating the Coaldale Copperheads in a best-of-three set, they fell to the eventual south division champions, the Carstars Okotoks Bisons.
After a long off-season the Generals are set to make their return to the ice this fall. On September 19 the Generals will open the new season on the road against the very same Bisons who ended their season months prior. Then on September 27, the Generals will return to the ice at the SLS Centre for their 2025-2025 home opener against the Agra Risk Wheatland Kings.
The 36-game regular season will see some slight changes for the Generals and the league as a whole. Firstly, the league has contracted by a team after the Three Hills Thrashers ceased operations following last season, reducing the league to an even 12 teams–six in each division.
Secondly, the HJHL announced earlier this summer a partnership between the online broadcaster FloSports and its member teams. Starting FloSports will stream live and on-demand select games from across the HJHL schedule. The rollout of the service will begin with six participating teams and will continue to expand in the future.
In late July, the Generals announced that they had been named as one of the team partners with FloSports. The 2025-2026 season will see FloSports broadcast every Generals game–both home and away–live and on-demand for all fans to view.
The broadcasting partnership between the league and FloSports “marks a significant step forward as the HJHL continues to push the boundaries of Junior B hockey in Canada,” the league wrote in a statement announcing the partnership in mid-June. “[This will] offer fans unprecedented access and further elevate the profile of the league.”
With the start of the season only weeks away, the Generals are still working to round out their roster. The work to replace the team's graduating players will kick off in earnest at the end of August when the Generals host their training camp at the SLS Centre.
Over the course of four days–from August 28 to 31–the generals coaching staff, led by head coach Derek Bell, and the rest of the Generals upper management will evaluate talent and pick and sign players to fill out the roster before the official start of the first preseason game on September 7 in Okotoks.
All of it leads to the home opener on September 27 against Strathmore. Puck drop is at 7:15 pm at SLS Totem One.
