The Ghostriders played two games last weekend, they lost 4-3 in overtime in Kimberley then on Teddy Bear Toss night against the Revelstoke Grizzlies they won 6-2.
In Kimberley the Riders were down 3-2 in the third but got a late power play and in the last minute of the game Scott Sinclair scored giving the Riders at least a point and a chance for two, but Kimberley’s Cam Reid scored 41seconds into the overtime giving them the win.
The old saying A tie is as good as a win on the road applies here.
On Saturday in Fernie the Riders scored early in the first and held period leads of 2-0, 4-1 and finished up with a 6-2 win against Revelstoke.
Game notes
Jack Karpyshyn scored the Teddy Bear Toss goal Saturday just two minutes into the game, completely surprising Owen Albers who had 3 shutouts in his first 10 Grizzly games and probably thought...
Liam Fitzgerald scored his first goal as a Rider in Kimberley and did all the leg work on Gaege Johnson’s short handed goal Saturday.
Fitzgerald who was in Revelstoke got to deliver a pie in the face to GM Ryan Parent who punted him down the road in November. Nice word -smithing eh.
Top scorers Ethan MacDuff and Kort Kissinger started scoring again as well and had three points each. Aiden Kruhlak, from Sherwood Park, was in net for both games last weekend and seems to have taken the number one spot.
What I didn’t think I would see… Six different players scored Saturday against Revelstoke who came into town as the first overall team in the league with the lowest goals against as well. To me it was the best team effort I’ve seen this season. Ebouliant Ty Valin “We had good buy in”.
What you don’t usually see… A Head Coach coaching the defence. Coach Valin was on that side of the bench last weekend and his players responded with three points against two top teams, and D-man Scott Sinclair scored three goals. “ Our defence needed some attention” said Ty Valin. That’s coach code for we’ve had too many turnovers lately.
Round the League'
If you were wondering about last week’s story on Golden’s lead guitarist Levi Hall, well his video came out and although it looked like he was playing an instrument… it wasn’t a guitar and the music critics gave him a 3 game suspension.
Golden and Kimberley exchanged misconducts and head shots etc last Saturday and the result was Nitro Trey Stephenson got a match and was suspended indefinitely.
We’ve seen Golden a few times, and they are undisciplined but win lots of games and with 818 minutes they lead the league in PIM.
Their fans must love em. Anyway, if they keep it up they could win the KiJHL colouring book at the end of the year. If I were a bettin man I’d say Stephenson was probably retaliating for something earlier in the game.
Should the KiJHL start eaten at the betting trough.. everyone else is...just sayin
Big day for the zoo keepers at Hockey Canada Thursday Dec 15, that’s the deadline for Jr A teams to start wearing cages... I’m hearing they're not going to just walk into their cages without a ringmaster and a whip. HC could be vulnerable right now... maybe they have a chance
Big game for Fernie and Creston Friday
The Ghostriders play in Creston Friday then go home for Christmas. They return to play Kimberley December 28th in Fernie.
Have a safe and Merry Christmas everyone, even my fans at the KiJHL office.
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