Sunday, 20 February 2022

The Riders will play the Rockies

 

After winning 2-0 in Castlegar Saturday night the Kimberley Dynamiters finished up in first place by one point over the Columbia Valley Rockies. 

Kimberley will now play Golden and the Ghostriders will play the Rockies in the first round of the playoffs.






The Schedule

Fernie is in Invermere Tuesday Wednesday 22-23

The Rockies are here Friday Saturday 25-26

Fernie is in Invermere Monday 28

Invermere is in Fernie March 1

Fernie in Invermere March 2

Notes

The Last three games

Creston 1 @ Fernie 2 

The Rockies 3 @ Fernie 2

Creston 1 @ Fernie 3

The last few games were just tuneup's for the post season... notice the low scores

In the Rockies game both teams rested their top scorers and players who don’t usually get lots of ice got some

As long as the games weren’t all that important I would have liked to have seen AP goalie  Brennan Koch who spent the week practicing with the Riders (while Casey Thomson was away) get a start or at least play a period... it would be great to have a local goalie in the future









Final Ghostriders scoring stats here

Kort Kisinger, Dayton Nelson and Ethan MacDuff finished 1-2-3 as you would expect and Scott Sinclair was the top scoring D man

From what I can tell it looks like Kaden Slobodian will miss the first week or so,  some others are day to day... the Rockies can figure that out for themselves.

The Best hold on a game winning OT goal goes to Dayton Nelson in the 2-1 Creston game Feb 15 Ethan MacDuff scored the OT winner a few seconds later... and Nelson didn’t even get an assist...woulda finished with one more point than MacDuff...  Rylan Cardinal scored the first goal and his first goal in that game.

Cole Fournier with a G and an A and Reese Maclean scored in the Rockies game and Jake Oviatt, Kort Kisinger (GW) and Matt Schulmeister scored in the second Creston game.

Ethan MacDuff had 5 game winning goals, Kort Kisinger and Jake Oviatt each had 4 

Half of Oviatt’s 8 goals were GW's better play him late in games

Dylan Lacroix finished 8-2-1(OT L) and Casey Thomson finished 2-3 

Final Thoughts

I think Fernie matches up better against the Rockies than Kimbo and maybe we’ll get a long series

And Finally

You don’t need a stupid dating app or service !








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