With a 5-2 win against the 100 Mile Wranglers and a 3-2 win vs the Golden Rockets the Ghostriders find themselves tied with the Rockies at 10 points and identical 5-2 records. Kimberley leads with 12 points but have played one more game... Golden (8) and Creston (7) remain within striking distance of the leaders.
Divisional games will be meaningful this year! Say it ain’t so.
Even looking forward to seeing Golden play here once in a while. The Riders could have lost that game or at least had it go to OT. The Rockets may prove to be a handful in Golden this year.
The City of Fernie has announced that the arena will close November 4th through December 1st. GM Jeff Wagner is working at rescheduling the three effected games and all the practices.
Ghostrider Notebook
100 Mile’s James Pedersen got a match and 3 game suspension for his slew foot on Jordan Kromm (7pts in 7 games) last Friday. BC Hockey doesn’t like the cheap slew foot very much and we concur ... a player can easily land on the back of his head causing a brain injury... and they're cumulative.
Ethan Jang scored the first goal Friday then Niki Sombrowski scored shorthanded... speed allowed both players to fly by the D for breakaways. Unfortunately Jang is out with an injury for at least a month.
Tim Horton’s Kory Zinck’s shorthanded goal Saturday was the Riders 5th SHG in 7 games. Zinck, Kromm, Sombrowski, Ford and Jang all have shorties.The KI special teams stat page shows 4 but we know and the team page shows 5, tops in the league so far.
More Tim Horton’s, Riley Fonger with three straight wins and a .953 save % was the well deserved Tim Horton’s Player of the Week. Hope he plays the whole season here, the Ghost could win a ton’o games.
And even more Tim’s...Tim Horton’s new owners Mike and Kristina Dube have become great Rider supporters... even though Mike was the enemy when he was a Nitro. In 04-05 he had 14 goals, 29 assists 43 points in 42 games on a division winning team. He has to be wondering how the hell I knew that... I have no life Mike haha
With 4 goals and 4 assists in 7 games Kyle Ford was the coaches pick as the Boston Pizza Player of the Month for September. Ford had the game winner in both games last weekend.
Sebastian Iannuzzi who made a couple of nice shot blocks last weekend was the McDonald’s Practice Player of the Week.
D-man Shaun Pierce had to retire from junior hockey because of injuries. It’s a pissoff to everyone involved including Shaun that a promising 17 year old would have to leave the game because of injuries... the last straw was an uncalled head shot in Castlegar, weren’t the cages suppose to stop that?
New F Aiden Gleisner (6’2” 200) got his first point vs 100 Mile on Friday and new D Josh Dalquist (6’2” 190) had a couple of Rocket players take what were probably cage liberties on him but he kept cool and never took any PIM plus picked up his first point vs Golden. Fans will grow to like this steady D this season and Gleisner as well... love the size factor.
The Ghostriders will be wearing their Cancer jerseys again this month. You can bid on them again this year as well. More on that in the next few days.
Fernie is on the road this weekend with games in Princeton and Osoyoos. Last Friday Princeton became the first team to defeat Kelowna and they have a 3-4 record while Osoyoos is struggling so far this year at 1-5. Both games are scheduled Drive 99.1 radio broadcast games.
There is a municipal election coming up in October and several people are trying to get on council including Dan McSkimming (PXP announcer and former board member) Phil Iddon (former Ghostrider President) and Tracey Kelly (Minor Hockey president) They are all hockey friendly candidates.
Spoken really fast....brought to you by the committee to keep Jr Hockey and good fun here in Fernie.
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