The Ghostriders tied the Rockies and Golden then finished up the exhibition season with a 4-3 win in Kimberley and a 6-3 win in Creston.
These were pre season games everyone, although wins are much better than losses... they were meaningless... until this weekend when the boys open up the regular season on road in Spokane Friday and in Beaver Valley on Saturday.
Rider coach Jeff Wagner was not interested in saying who has signed yet and the practices and games have all been on the road so we don’t really know much about the team.
We do know who the returning players are after the exhibition season.
Dylan Defosse, Tristan Downe, Derek Green, Jordan Kromm, Brendan Nemes, Shaun Pierce, Sam Rousseau, Keelan Saworski, Devyn Stewart, Greg Susinski, Owen Titus, Eric Welford and Zak Larson. Ethan Jang should be back this week, he was in Alberni’s camp.
There are 14 vets and several new players, of the new guys it looks like Cole Gibson, Niki Sombrowski, and Kyle Klein are signed and Kory Zinck as well.
Coach Wagner says that from the first game to game four the players made "good strides 5 on 5 ” (team play has improved) special teams play will get worked on once the team gets back into the swing of things here in Fernie starting on the 10th when they have their first practice in the Memorial... in almost a year.
Wagner says he has recruited a mix of toughness and speed to suit our smaller rink.
Sort of the opposite of Kamloops a few years ago when they had olympic size home ice. Anyway, it should translate into a slight advantage for the Riders at home.
Went by the rink today and they have started making ice.
The Riders will have their final practice on the big ice in Cranbrook Thursday.
Ya I know this was lame, we may have something to actually report later this week.
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