Ghostriders earn three of four points this week

 The Ghostriders won 4-3 on the road in Castlegar and lost 3-2 at home in a shootout on the weekend.

On Friday in Castlegar they were up 4-3 after two then in the third Dylan Lacroix stopped 14 shots and the Riders held on for the 4-3 win.

Game Report Here

On Saturday against the first place Columbia Valley Rockies they were up 2-0 but in the third they got stung for a power play goal and a penalty shot when a player was accused of putting his hand on the puck in the crease. The power play goal was in the last five minutes and the penalty shot was in the last seven seconds. The Rockies' Dylan Malarchuk was the only player to score in the shoot out.

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Note Book

With five goals in his last four games Dayton Nelson has taken the goal scoring lead with 9. Ethan MacDuff got one in Castlegar and has 7.

Kyle Klein was back after getting hurt Nov 13th in Creston and had an assist in Castlegar.

Tanner Chapman a former Sicamous Eagle had the game winner in Castlegar

Goalies, Rockies Grady Nicholas and Rider Dylan Lacroix were the first and second stars Saturday

Jock Michael scored his first goal with the Riders in Castlegar and was named as the first star. Meanwhile his former team in Golden got hammered  7-0 at home by Kimberley Saturday... they only had 15 skaters and another former Rider Nick Woodrow wasn’t one of them. 

Two things we don’t know... KIJHL teams rarely list their injured players and nobody makes them so we don’t know if  Woodrow was hurt and we also don't know why they gave up on the speed skating Michael... but I’m glad they did.

Kaden Slobodian got his first point Saturday, an assist on the power play. Slobodian was in Campbell River before getting moved to Fernie. The Storm are a first place team in the VIJHL and they must be loaded if they can let this guy go. 

With three assists in Castlegar Kort Kisinger leads the team in scoring

Taylor Schmideder scored Saturday, he’s from Kimberley... we don’t see that very often here in Fernie

Nick Mitchell is a Fernie local who for various reasons played a few games in Grand Forks and then played 31games in the VIJHL in Comox where his coach was none other than KIJHL Commissioner Jeff Dubois... it’s a small world