The Ghostriders play their home opener on Saturday night against the Columbia Valley Rockies.
The Boys are back in Town
It will also be the home opener of the famous beer section as well. So as Thin Lizzy once prophesied “The drinks will flow and the blood will spill, and if the boys wanna fight you better let em”. You can see I still live in the 1970’s, only now without hair or real teeth.
The Riders lost 4-3 in overtime in Fernie then lost 9-4 on the road to the Rockies last weekend. Both teams were using players who probably won’t be on the ice this weekend. The Rockies have some pretty good players and will be a handful this year.
Purple Haze
The Fernie Creston ex game was cancelled last week because of a hazing incident... maybe now this kind of thing will stop... but how many times have we heard that before. Read the story here
This un-scientific poll was taken an hour or so after the Creston hazing was announced. As you can see hazing is still a thing in some leagues.
A New AC
Former Ghostrider Mike Anderson has signed on as an assistant coach. Mike was an integral part of the 2010/11 Silver Medal winning Cyclone Taylor Cup team.
Two new players showed up last week, forward Taylor Haggerty and defenceman Josh Prebushewski . Prebushewski played in the evil empire (Kimberley) last year and was part of a future considerations deal, we don’t see Fernie Kimberley transactions very often. Haggerty scored two goals in Invermere and had an assist at home vs the aforementioned Rockies.
Great News
This year JrA teams can only keep 23 players in stead of 25 so expect even more new faces in the coming weeks.
More Great News- I think anyway
After watching the exhibition games it looks like the overall talent level in the league has taken a step up from last year. This season should be interesting.
Will the league and the referees listen this season, they did last week for Kelowna and Osoyoos
We needed this kind of sensibility last year in the Kimberley debacle seen below
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