Riders win Saturday on groundhog day. The Division games

The Ghostriders won Saturday extending their lead on the Rockies to 8 points. Both the Rockies and Rockets lost their games this weekend and remain 3 points apart in the standings. Kimberley has run away with first place.

The Riders will play the Rockies in Fernie next Saturday.



Fernie 6 @ Golden 3

In Golden Nikolas Sombrowski’s second period goal turned out to be the game winner but Briar Whyte made it close on the PP  and the second ended 4-3 . In the third  Kyle Ford (2) and Sebastian Iannuzzi scored to end it  6-3.
Gavin Lawrie scored in the first and Brendan Nemes finished with a goal and an assist.
Justin Faiella stopped 40 of 43 shots in net and was the Riders game star. 

Rocket Colton Hutchinson had a G and an A and Dominic Turner PP scored his 34th goal .

In Invermere the Nelson Leafs won 6-1 against the hometown Rockies. Six Leafs scored and Nelson went 3-3 on the PP,  the Rockies were 0-5. The shots were almost even 33-31 NL Hunter Young got the win in the Leaf net.

In Kimberley the Nitros won 5-2 against Creston. Five different Dynamiters scored and Adam Andersen had the win in net. Both Carter Spring and Neil Kingston scored shorthanded as well.