The Ghostriders won 4-2 in Golden Saturday. Soon to be 19 year old speedy forward Johnny Elias scored his 4th and 5th goals and is on a 6 game scoring streak that saw him rack up 10 points... he has 13 so far in just 10 games, it took him 39 games last year to get to that lucky number. A year older at that age can make a big difference... it gave his stick a chance to catch up to his feet.
Gavin Lawrie scored the GW in Golden, Elias had the primary apple.
Former Rider Kory Zinck was traded to Kimberley from Creston last week. When Creston was here in September Zinck was stirring it up in front of the Rider net inciting a scrum that saw Aiden Gleisner come from behind and start patting him on the head like he was saying good dog Kory good dog... I just love that s**t Gleisner scored the first goal in Golden last Saturday as well, his 3rd and 8th point.
Goalie Chance Griffith has taken off, he won his last 4 starts in a row 3 were on the road 2 were against divisional opponents and 1 was at home vs Princeton, who had just won in Kimberley.
Kimberley had to cancel their game vs Golden last weekend and we speculated it was an ammonia leak and that was confirmed HERE Princeton was late getting into their rink because they changed away from ammonia and Cranbrook’s small rink had an ammonia problem in September. Lest we forget
Kimberley beat Kelowna 3-2 Saturday, we don’t do algebra here so just because Fernie lost to Kelowna it doesn’t mean they are better...they might be, we’ll find out more in December.
The Nelson Leafs who lost all but 1 game in September have won 4 in a row in October but were in the news for another reason last week when D man Andrew Gates had to retire because of concussions Last year Nelson’s Logan Wullam retired for the same reasons...but back then players and coaches could tell everyone what they really felt and on Twitter it was a gong show. Read a small taste of the hysterics here
The struggling 0-10 Osoyoos Coyotes just picked up goalie Curt Doyle from the previously struggling Nelson Leafs, it is Doyle’s 4th team, click his underlined name. Curt made 57 saves against Revelstoke Saturday night... he certainly gave his team a chance to win but the Yotes lost 1-0.
I heard some coaches think Revelstoke has the best team, we won’t see them here in Fernie this year but the players go to Revy in January.
Jeff Dubois has been coaching in the BCHL in Alberni Valley for the last couple of years but just moved to the Island where he will take over the Comox Valley Glacier Kings in the VIJHL. Dubois, you may remember, was the boss in Creston for a few years and won two championships with the BCIHL Selkirk Saints in the college league . Congrats Jeff.
And finally... and not a moment too soon. Have a clean house, HC is watching the face-mask leagues The KIJHL has done a fantastic job of posting the transactions this year but it’s a case of giving with one hand (Thanksgiving) and taking away with the other (Carbon Tax ). The discipline page does not keep the suspensions up for the season even though they are cumulative . Last year you could see all suspensions listed on the transaction page for the whole season and you could see for yourself who was accumulating games. Go to the transaction page then go back a year and check it out if you don’t believe.
Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers Twitter and Facebook followers and anyone else illiterate enough to understand this
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