1970–71 WKJHL season

The 1970-71 West Kootenay Junior Hockey League season was the fourth in league history. The season began with the same five teams as the previous season, until the Castlegar Apollos dropped out on December 13th 1970 after 21 of 32 games. The Apollos' departure resulted in an unbalanced number of games played between the four remaining teams. It was the fourth and final season without any playoffs, and instead the league champion was the team with the best regular season record. The Trail Smoke Eaters continued their dominance with a third championship.^[1]

Each team was scheduled to play 32 games, 8 against each opponent (4 home, 4 away) until the Apollos dropped out on December 13 1970, the remaining four teams finished their schedules without the matchups against Castlegar being rescheduled resulting in Trail and Nelson playing only 28 games compared to the Warriors and Border Bruins' 30. This would prove to not be a problem as the Smoke Eaters would finish 14 points ahead of second-place Rossland, despite playing two less games.

The demise of the Apollos would leave Castlegar without a team until the first iteration of the Rebels joined in 1976