After losing two games at home against Kimberley and Creston the Riders topped it off with a 5-3 loss against the last place Columbia Valley Rockies who were 39 points behind them in the standings. Was that a fire alarm I heard going off after that game?
A couple of days later the Ghostriders played Creston and Nelson and the answer was yes, it was some sort of an alarm. Friday night in Creston the firemen skated away with a scorching 8-2 road win leaving the Thunder Cats looking for water and a litter box.
Then in Fernie against coach Dave McLellan’s Off The Wall Gang, The Nelson Leafs, the boys got a 5-1 win. The Leafs took a couple of bench minors and a gross misconduct penalty in Fernie really impressing the Kamloops referee (who was one of 2 refs visiting the Division doing a few games) with their theatrics and wry sense of humour. For the record they were shutout 3-0 the night before in Invermere, by the same pair of Kamloops refs. Cause it's always their fault.
2 Tweets
1/ Creston usually plays the Riders a lot closer and the Thunder Cats beat Golden 7-1 the next night that ended with this somewhat telling Tweet
After whatever that was on Friday, the #TCats bounce back with a big 7-1 win over @RocketsGolden tonight. @Cartwright29 with the hat trick!
2/ The BV Nitehawks don't like Nelson, one bit...one of their main rivals.
BVNITEHAWKS
"@RiderNewsKIJHL: Final 5-1 Riders" sweet, sweet music!!
Ghostrider Weekend Notebook
Joel Burgess has had points in 14 of his last 15 games and scored 3 goals including a shorthanded goal in Creston, and had a goal against Nelson. Aaron Neufeld had 3 goals and an assist and Derek Georgopoulos had a goal and 3 assists in the two games after missing games with an injury. Nice to see D-man Zak Kutchler get a goal and a couple of helpers last week along with his usual hard play on the boards. Kyle Haugo also got an assist and enough big hits against the Leafs to be named as the Riders Player of the Week. Doan Smith (2 goals 1 assist) continues to lead the league in scoring with 56 points but Nitro Jason Richter is just 1 point behind. Sam Plaquin, who may be the most underrated player in the league had 3 points in the two games and also scored 2 goals in the Invermere loss. Jeff Orser was in net for both of the wins as well and is in the running for the Division's Top Goalie award.
Joel Burgess has had points in 14 of his last 15 games and scored 3 goals including a shorthanded goal in Creston, and had a goal against Nelson. Aaron Neufeld had 3 goals and an assist and Derek Georgopoulos had a goal and 3 assists in the two games after missing games with an injury. Nice to see D-man Zak Kutchler get a goal and a couple of helpers last week along with his usual hard play on the boards. Kyle Haugo also got an assist and enough big hits against the Leafs to be named as the Riders Player of the Week. Doan Smith (2 goals 1 assist) continues to lead the league in scoring with 56 points but Nitro Jason Richter is just 1 point behind. Sam Plaquin, who may be the most underrated player in the league had 3 points in the two games and also scored 2 goals in the Invermere loss. Jeff Orser was in net for both of the wins as well and is in the running for the Division's Top Goalie award.
Round the League
The Osoyoos Coyotes lead the league with a 34-6 record and 1 tie against Kimberley last Friday and they are an amazing + 103 with 200 goals for and 97 against.
With a couple of PP goals last week Chase's Kaleb Boyle became the all time KIJHL PP Goal scorer. See the list here
Hat-Tricks Last Week
Osoyoos' Luc Gradiser (17 G in 26 games) had 3 in a 6-1 win vs Summerland.
Creston's Carson Cartwright (24 G ) got 3 vs Golden
Fernie's Joel Burgess (23 G) scored his 3 in an 8-2 road win vs Creston.
Beaver Valley's Ross Armour (16 yrs old-12 G- 31 A in 39 games) had his first KIJHL hat-trick in the 9-3 Border Bruin game where he also had an assist.
4 and 5 pt Gms
Kimberley’s Jordan Busch D had 4 A in a 7-6 W in North Oak.
Kimberley’s Jordan Busch D had 4 A in a 7-6 W in North Oak.
Kamloops' Addison Bazian s 2G 2A in a 7-6 W vs Chase
Kelowna Ethan Rusnack Kelowna 1 G 4 A in a 7-4 W vs 100
Shutouts
Jake Mullen now with Kamloops got his 2nd shutout in a 2-0 win vs 100 Mile, his first one was with Grand
Forks… that should tell you something.
Golden's Mark Becica 9-0 vs GFBB
Columbia Valley's Jason Sandhu 3-0 vs Nelson
Oddities...
to bad it didn't go to OT
Summerland 3@ Kelowna 5
Kelowna scores on a penalty shot, a SH G a PP G an EN G
1 ES G --Cyra 2 G 3 A Josephs 2G 1A Turner the W in net. S/S Eluik a G 1
A
Congrats Oak and Rockies
Princeton 2 @ North Oak 3/ 2 OT
Andrusiak from Fournier the OT GW Profeit the W in net. shots
39-39 Oak 2-6 on the PP Posse 1-4
Nelson 0 @ Columbia Valley 3
Sandhu gets the shut out and Fenelon, Davies and Young score the goals. Nelson 14 skaters CVR 15 skaters.
Fernie 3 @ Columbia Valley 5
Davies and Piva 2 G each Sandu stops 37 of 40 for the W in net. Plaquin 2 G for Fernie
Nitro Corski guy Josh Lockhart guy did a lot of work compiling this... was out just before last weekend's games.
The @OsoyoosCoyotes @RiderNewsKIJHL @Kamloops_Storm @RebelsCastlegar & @SteamKIJHL are top 5-on-5 teams in #KIJHL http://nitrosfan.blogspot.ca/2015/01/kijhl-5-on-5-stats-and-effectiveness.html …
Home and Home with Golden this weekend Friday night in Fernie... only 2 home games left after this weekend...
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