{"id":848550,"date":"2026-08-06T20:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/848550\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T20:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:06:09","slug":"decorated-surrey-ref-takes-top-job-with-new-b-c-junior-hockey-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/848550\/","title":{"rendered":"Decorated Surrey ref takes top job with new B.C. junior hockey league"},"content":{"rendered":"

Decorated Surrey ref takes top job with new B.C. junior hockey league<\/p>\n

Published 11:01 am Thursday, August 6, 2026<\/p>\n

Surrey resident Mike Campbell becomes the British Columbia Hockey Conference\u2019s new director of officiating ahead of the league\u2019s inaugural Junior A season.<\/p>\n

The new league landed \u201cone of the most decorated officials in Canadian hockey,\u201d trumpets a post on bchchockey.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Campbell will oversee officiating operations, development programming, performance standards and department strategy, \u201cshaping the league\u2019s officiating identity from day one,\u201d the BCHC announced.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a role that fits Campbell\u2019s resume. An active Western Hockey League (WHL) official and the reigning WHL Official of the Year<\/a>, he has worked some of the biggest games in the sport: the Olympic Games, IIHF Men\u2019s World Championships, IIHF World Junior Championships, the CHL Memorial Cup, the Centennial Cup, and the American Hockey League (AHL) as a referee.\u201d<\/p>\n

Campbell\u2019s first job will be recruiting and retaining officials for the new league, which launches in September as the Hockey Canada and BC Hockey-sanctioned Junior A league in the province with 22 teams in four divisions<\/a> including Delta Ice Hawks, Langley Trappers and some other former PJHL clubs.<\/p>\n

Close to 185 officials worked provincial junior hockey last year, according to BCHC brass.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to building a strong officiating program for junior hockey officials across the province of B.C.,\u201d Campbell says in a news release.<\/p>\n

Away from the ice, Campbell once worked at The Hockey Shop in Surrey (as website catalogue manager) and currently lives in the Fraser Heights area with his family. Campbell began officiating at age 12, playing rep hockey in Cloverdale at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Decorated Surrey ref takes top job with new B.C. junior hockey league Published 11:01 am Thursday, August 6,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-848550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}