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The Pacific Junior Hockey League still anticipates beginning its season on Sept. 29. But what the league’s 44-game schedule will look like depends on the availability of arenas where its 13 teams — including the Port Moody Panthers — play.

The fans that Port Moody baseball player Michael Crouse plays in front of are real. They’re not cardboard cut-outs or digital projections strategically placed to fill the background of TV shots.

For minor hockey associations in the Tri-Cities, it’s been an off-season unlike any other. And as thoughts begin turning from beach time to ice time, they’re still not certain how the coming season will look.

A year after Coquitlam Little League’s All-Star team won the Canadian championship and went on to compete at the famed Little League World Series in Williamsport, Penn., the organization faces financial ruin.

The Coquitlam Chiefs are no more. The city’s minor hockey association has retired its name and logo, a stylized profile of a First Nations person in a long, feathered headdress.

Lief Rodgers is not going to let a little thing like a global pandemic keep him from ascending to his goal of competing on the World Cup mountain biking circuit.

Ice will be available in arena two at the Port Moody recreation complex beginning Sept. 1 and in arena one by Sept. 26. But that may not be soon enough for some groups.

Pamela Clarke has run marathons in world-class cities like New York and Chicago.

The Pacific Junior Hockey League — that includes the Port Moody Panthers — will forge ahead with a 44-game regular season beginning Sept. 29. The league also announced Tuesday its two-game Winter Classic will be played Jan.