Rookie tour, returns and maybe returns, outlawTroy, chilling financials, rescue me and the disclaimer

The Ghostrider mostly rookies tour lost 4-3 in Creston Saturday night. As usual the word rookies should set off a big red flag for Rider fans. Exhibition hockey is a chance for the coaches to decide who stays and who goes… and if they go it’s hopefully to another team, the coaches usually try to get them somewhere else.

Friday and Saturday’s lineups didn’t include prime AAA prospects Seamus Keith (F) and D-man Aaron Hladiuk. So you could speculate, and we will, that they have made it.

The lineups did include 20’s Jordan Kromm (Riders top scorer last season) Gregg Susinski (without a doubt the Riders best defenceman last year) A/C Dylan Defosse (12G 31 pts) and Derek Green (another big body who is willing to make em pay). 

It sounds like almost point a game Tyler Witzke, the Riders prime acquisition from Creston last year, is going to school and won’t be back, he is  20. Goalie Riley Fonger is another school casualty who won’t be back. No word on what is exactly going on with Simon Bergsagel and Gavin Lawrie. Traded?

Also we still don’t know about tryouts  Niki Sombrowski (Estevan) and  Kyle Ford and Sawan Gill (La Ronge) of the SJHL.  Their camps were this weekend, we should hear something soon. 

Kyle Klein, Owen Titus and Johnny Elias are also in camp. Klein was the youngest player in the league last season and at 17 this year could be a great asset for the Riders.  

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Round the League

Kimberley just had their main camp this weekend and have 13 returning players including Brock Palmer and Cam Russell, two premier KIJHLrs… so expect them to be trouble as usual.

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Former Revelstoke GM and Cyclone winner Troy Mick who has had stints in the WHL and the BCHL has gone to the outlaw Cold Lake Wings. I don’t get it, he shouldn’t have been hurting for work and was even rumoured to be a candidate for the KIHJL Commissioner position of which he obviously didn’t get.
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The Ghostriders will play Princeton in Grand Forks next Friday. They are in the Forks because the Princeton arena is getting a new chiller just like Fernie did last year. The Posse think having no ice will cost them an extra $12000... they are preaching to the choir here,  Fernie lost around $70000 and three lives two years ago. Princeton didn’t have a leak or anything, but are replacing it for obvious safety reasons. Read it here.

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And finally, and not a moment to soon... The pre season is killing the Riders financially... with trips to Golden and GF without at least them playing here in Fernie to offset the costs is murder. But the no games in Fernie reason is a good one, the semi annual Mine Rescue Competition is being held at the rink. Without the mines Fernie would starve. Yes I’m in favour of mining.

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As usual non-professional and inaccurate... ya that’s me