Rider Rockies first round P/O series
The first two games of the 2018-19 KIJHL playoffs featuring the Fernie Ghostriders and the Columbia Valley Rockies starts in Fernie Tuesday- Wednesday the 26-27th.
The other division playoff has Kimberley playing Golden. The winners will play each other in the second round starting March 8th.
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The Rider Rockies matchup promises to be a fairly close series. So far the Ghostriders have won three games tied two and lost one in overtime. The Riders have outscored the Rockies 26-16 in their six regular season games and won 5-0 in Fernie last Friday and tied 4-4 in Invermere Saturday.
The Rockies top scorers are Drace Prymac 38 Fraser McMann 26 and Jesse Carr with 34 points.
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Ghostrider Notes
Some Ghostrider Numbers
The Riders finished with 60 points and were 5th overall in the KIJHL. They were also 5th overall in plus minus at +34 and they scored 168 goals.
The Rockies had 50 points and were -23 and scored 159 goals.
Jordan Kromm was the Riders top scorer with 54 points and Brendan Nemes with 3 goals last weekend was the top goal scorer with 25, 8 were on the powerplay.
Jordan Kromm, Kyle Ford, and Tyler Witzke each had 5 game winning goals.
Greg Susinski was the top scoring defenceman with 27 points including 5 powerplay goals. The rest of the D have been chipping in with a few goals lately, could be an important turning point for the FGR
The Riders killed 88.73% of their penalties, second only to Revelstoke who killed 92.11% of theirs. The Riders scored on 20.9 % of their power play chances and were sixth overall in that category.
In net Riley Fonger finished with a 12-12 W/L record along with 2 ties and 4 shutouts. Justin Faiella was 11-5 with 1 tie and 2 shutouts.
Sebastian Iannuzzi is the only player on the injury list, he was hurt Friday by a vicious 5 min cheap shot head shot from the Invermere's Logan MacDonald he will miss game one because of a two game suspension he picked up. Iannuzzi misses the first round... lucky he had that cage he woulda bin out for the season...
The Riders finished with 738 PIM, several years ago we had 3500 minutes... good by old friend
Round the League
Kelowna was +165 and won the league with 89 points, Kimberley was second with 88 and Revelstoke had 85.
Kimbo plays Golden who have two players suspended to start the P/O's, Steven Bigam 4 games for grabbing a face mask (don’t you ever take one of them off Steven, signed BC Hockey) and Ryan Taylor 2 games for accumulated head contact PIM’s. Both were against Kimberley...why not do it in the playoffs, get these guys the learning channel.
Kelowna had the top two scorers Brody Dale who turned 19 in October had 123 points and Zach Erhardt 101. First time in 6 years a player has had more than 100.
Kelowna also had Coach Ken Law who was gassed from the always in first place (when he was there anyway) Osoyoos Coyotes last summer... so Law went to Kelowna. Can you guess which 4th place team with the most PIM 1520 is stuck playing in Kelowna Tuesday. If you can’t beat em in the orchard...
Nelson plays Spokane, these two have had some interesting things to say about each other on social media this year including accusations of laughing at injured players and the usual he said she said stuff... if they build it we will come (and report it), from the arena of dreams.
KIJHL goal scoring Brody Dale had 50, Spokane rookie Bear Hughes 41 and Rocket rookie Dominic Turner had 38... all under 20yrs old.
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