The Ghostriders lost both of their games this weekend, 5-2 in Invermere and 4-3 in OT at home to Nelson.
Alaister Standen scored both goals against the Rockies, his second goal with 2:11 left in the game made it 3-2. The Rockies scored 2 in the empty net after that. You have to try, I can’t count how many times, even at the NHL level, teams fail to score into the empty net.
The Riders lost 4-3 to Nelson in Fernie. This was on my Twitter after the game.
Nelson scores on the power play in OT
Questionable goals and non goals and a late penalty that both players participated in
Glad I wasn’t the ref tonight
Good road game by the Leafs
Riders were good enough to win as well
Both goalies (F-Fitzgerald N- Violette) made nice saves
Lets get this straight I am not blaming the ref for the loss
Rider goals were by Dylan Defosse, Gavin Lawrie and Andrew Bonham . Defosse was the Riders player of the game and a nice slick player named Cole Wyatt (2G inc the OT winner) was Nelson’s POG
The Riders newest player is Nolan Steer, he’s a pretty mobile skater and should add to the Riders scoring. He was playing in the SJHL in Weyburn before he came to Fernie... wondering how he ended up here ? Here is a screenshot from their stats page, recognize anyone...
The Riders were without a couple of assistant Captains on the weekend, Greg Susinski and Jordon Kromm were out of the lineup because they were visiting a school in the USA about a potential partial scholarship.
This is what the Coaches say when they are recruiting players, "we are all about moving players on”, . So some guys missing a couple of games to move on shouldn’t be a problem, at least it never was before. If they go it will be up to the team to announce it not me.
Rider D Sawan Gill was named as one of three Hot in the KIJHL stars of the week. Read that story here
The division is close so far..Golden couldn’t afford to lose two points... read on
Round the League
Nelson and Kimberley lead the league with 29 points, the Riders have 21. Fernie is very close to those teams, they were not last season the gap between the top teams and the above average teams like Fernie is small, adding the Standon’s Young’s and Steer’s of the world has made it even smaller.
Osoyoos won their first game Friday, they beat Kamloops 3-1, then on Saturday they tied 100 Mile 2-2... all without their head coach on the bench... what does that mean... I don’t know but they are here in Fernie next week.
Nelson and Kamloops had a spitting contest last weekend and a Twitter account called @KijhlS (KIJHL Sniper) reported on it and a few days later most of what he said was proven true in a story by Marty Hastings one of the best writers the league has. Read that drama here
The KiJHL Commissioner went crazy in that article and even called him a coward who was trying to destroy the league or something prompting the Sniper to post this.
If you want to learn what REAL search and destroy is type in NHL on Twitter you will find some of the nastiest personal s**t ever on teams and players.
So don’t worry about some obscure Twitter account, all you do is call attention to it... besides you have much bigger fish to fry like the whale of a disaster that hurts recruiting and everything else when your teams play ineligible players. Golden is the latest team to do that, Summerland was the recipient of the points. There is a simple answer to this, either hire a registrar or use the BC Hockey on line game sheets. This happens almost every season, you just have to make it idiot proof....
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And Finally and not a moment too soon ... I am not the Sniper, many of you think or probably hope that I am but it ain’t me
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RIP Earl McPeek, Earl was one of the founders of the Elk Valley Blazers senior hockey team of the 1980’s. Some of the players are listed here
The Blazers played in the old AAA WIHL for the Allan Cup. Fernie never won it but we saw Cup winning teams from Spokane and Cranbrook right here in town. I’ll never forget it, it really was old time hockey with several ex pro's... A former Blazer remembers Earl
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