The Ghostriders split their weekend games again last weekend losing 6-3 to Grand Forks then rebounding back for a 2-0 shutout in Creston.
The Ghostriders have split their weekend games for the last 4 weeks in a row... but they won’t split this weekend, they only have one game... on Saturday night in Nelson and it’s a Drive 99.1 Radio Broadcast game.
Ghostrider Notebook
In Sparwood forward Niki Sombrowski scored the first goal of the game but the escapee from the old age home goal judge didn’t see it and the referee had to call it. It did go bar in and out pretty fast. Kyle Ford and the ref had the assists. I hope they fire that old guy.
Brendan Nemes scored on the power play from Owen Titus and David Lenzin then Nemes scored his 9th goal of the season to tie the game up at 3-3. But that was it, the physical Bruins scored two in a row then one into the empty net.
Really enjoyed watchin D Greg Susinski battle with the Bruin forwards, every battle could have seen a few PIM’s.
On Saturday in Creston the Riders pretty much dominated the play territorially and won 2-0. Kyle Ford from Nikolas Sombrowski scored first then Greg Susinski from Johnny Elias and Jordan Kromm scored the second goal.
Johnny Elias got a chance to play with Brendan Nemes and Jordan Kromm in Creston and they shutdown star forward Tyler Witzke...Whisky made up for it on Tuesday against Golden when he scored 4 and now has 15th goals in 17 games.
Justin Faiella had the shutout in Creston, it was his first KIJHL shutout. Faiella was named as the McDonald’s Practice Player of the Week.
The Tim Horton’s Player of the Week was split between Brendan Nemes and 16 year old D-man Kyle Klein who coach Wagner said “ Had a good weekend”.
Klein certainly didn’t look out of place to these all ready discussed old eyes and a couple of months into the season he seems to have a much better handle on the pace of the league.
Jeff Wagner tells us that Goalies Riley Fonger and Justin Faiella will be getting some individual coaching from Evolution Goaltending’s Phil Spanswick. Only good things can come of that.
Round the League
After seeing Forward Shawn Campbell move up to the Maritime Junior A league only to come all the way back across Canada after two games with the St Stephen County Aces who are coached by former Grand Forks HC/GM Emery Olauson and former Castlegar Rebel HC/GM Bill Rotheisler a pissed off Nelson GM Lance Morey had this to say in the Nelson news.
“They have been poaching players from their former teams as well as others in the KIJHL,” Morey explained. “Almost to a player they have realized the team is poorly run and the league is a graveyard for players wanting to move forward.”
Well Nelson had lost a few games in a row...but graveyard, ha ha ha I live for quotes like that.
Reporter 101...How to get welcomed into your local team’s dressing room.
A paragraph from an Osoyoos newspaper article...
At times, it was more reminiscent of bad minor hockey as the Coyotes seemed incapable of holding onto the puck and their passes often ended up on Eagles players’ sticks.
The Campbell River Storm won the Cyclone Taylor Cup in 2015 when they defeated Kimberley in the final. The Storm made it to the Cyclone for the next three years and are hosting the tournament this year, so they fired their Head Coach and General Manager Lee Stone... it was a no brainer
In the Jr B world that was big news. Im certain you will see Stone’s name come up somewhere in the near future, he took the CR Storm from worst to first in his four and a half year tenure. The story says that Stone will stick around and help out at the Cyclone as an advisor. Owner Linda Lahtinen “I will always be grateful for his efforts to help save the Storm program over the past four years and return it to the top where it belongs." I am looking forward to continue working with Lee”... Really... where Linda, on a construction site ?
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