Ghostrider News Oct 29th

Ghostrider Notes October 29th

The Ghostriders split last weekend, they lost  2-1 to Kamloops and won 4-2 against Castlegar, both games were in Fernie. 

Ethan Jang returned from a month long injury last weekend and fit right in with several hits and his usual high speed play. Jang had an assist on Dylan Defosse’s goal vs Kamloops and scored a power play goal vs Castlegar. 

Niki Sombrowski played Friday then went and played a Jr A game with Salmon Arm Saturday where he got his first Jr A point. Sombrowski took a crushing hit Friday but fortunately was alright. Can’t afford too many of those.

Storm forward Brett Metro was taunting the beer section a few times Friday then took a Gross Misconduct PIM in the third right in front of his new beer section buddies. 

I won’t even describe what Metro was simulating he was doing to a player who was down on the ice, and if I, someone who loves the theatrics and mayhem didn’t like it.... 

So far the suspension isn’t listed, that usually means BC Hockey is sticking their noses into it, so maybe 6 games ?

Speaking of suspensions, and we just were, Kelowna’s  star forward Brody Dale who leads the KIJHL with 20 goals and 32 assists in 17 games is out for a couple of games for a 5 minute head shot against Beaver Valley. I think he was mad because he only scored 1 goal.

We only mention that because the Ghostriders play in Kelowna on Friday night. And without their top line in tact they aren’t very good... that’s according to Nelson Leaf Mitchell Lavoie.  In Tyler Harper’s Nelson Star newspaper interview Lavoie says “I didn’t think they were very good,” “I thought, one line and a couple solid other guys... 

Hope he’s right

David Lenzin got blasted to the ice in the Kamloops game  but was back Riding the next night and got his first points, a goal and an assist, with the Riders vs Castlegar. 

Brendan Nemes had what turned out to be the game winner vs the Rebels and Jordan Kromm had a goal and 2 assists and has taken over the Riders scoring lead with 15 points in 15 games. David Lenzin and Kyle Ford are next with 14.

Rookie D man Sawan Gill who could be the rookie of the year had 2 assists and was the Riders Player of the Game. The much improved Derek Green was named as the Player of the Game Friday.

In the 2-1 loss to Kamloops the Riders went 0-7 on the power play... even one goal gives them a point... or bar in instead of out late in the third period would have tied the game.

The Tim Horton’s Player of the Week is Sawan Gill and the McDonald’s Practice Player is the speedy Johnny Elias.

The Riders play in Kelowna (15 wins 1 tie and 1 OT L) and North Okanagan (3-11 with 1 default loss) this weekend. Both games are scheduled Drive 99.1 Radio Broadcast Games.

Despite outshooting Sicamous 56-29 the Revelstoke Grizzlies have finally lost a game so there are no perfect teams left.

The Eddie Mountain Breakdance

The standings are still fairly tight after the weekend, but Kimberley is slowly forging ahead of the pack while the rest tread water.


Castlegar 2 @Fernie 4 

In Fernie Brendan Nemes third period goal was the game winner. Jordan Kromm had 3 points and David Lenzin had a goal and an assist. Riley Fonger had the win in the Rider net. 
Fernie went 1-4 CR 0-4 on the PP.
 Brenden Skerratt had a short handed goal.
Shots 42-38 Rebels
Att 340

Kimberley 5 @ Nelson 0

In Nelson Adam Andersen stopped all 18 Leaf shots for his first KIJHL shutout. Keegan McDowell had 2 goals and Kimberley outshot Nelson 32-15.
KD was 1-12 and Nelson 0-5 on the PP
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Kamloops 5 @ Creston 4 

In Creston Tyler Maser tied the game and James Lalikeas (1G 2A) scored the game winner with just :54 left on the clock. AJ Charlie had 3 points and Ethan Paulin- Hatch had the win in net.
Shots 38-34 Creston
PP Storm 0-5 CVT 1-4
CVT Tyler Witzke scored 2 goals and Ryan Dey and Carson Small each scored a SH goal.
Att 210

Columbia Valley 3 @ Golden 4 2nd OT

In Golden Shawn Grobowsky scored the double OT winner after Zach Salyn tied the game at 3 with 1:27 left in the third. 
Shots 37-33 Rockies. Jacob Dewar had 1G1A and Ryan Baker had the win in net.
Ben Kelsch was in the Rockies net and Jesse Carr and Eric Lloyd each had 3 points.

The Eddie Mountain Breakdown

Kamloops 2 @ Fernie 1

In Fernie Tyler Maser scored the game winning goal three minutes into the third period. Chris Thon scored on the PP in the first and Ethan Paulin-Hatch had the win in net.

Dylan Defosse scored the FGR goal and Justin Faiella was in net.
Shots 40-19 Fernie
PP Storm 1-2 Fernie 0-7.
Att 700

Kimberley 5 @ Beaver Valley 2

In Beaver Valley Keegan McDowell scored 2 and Brock Palmer had a goal and an assist in the Nitro win. Brett Anderson had the win in net.
KD went 2-4 on the PP and BV 0-4
Shots 30-25 KD
Att 142

Creston 5 @ Grand Forks 6 OT

In Grand Forks Blair Whyte (1G 1A) scored the OT game winner Zane Avery had a 4 point night and Evan Gorman had (2G 1A ). Zak Larson had the win in net in his first game with the Bruins.
Creston’s Carson Small tied the game in the third, Keenan McElroy had 2G Logan Berggren 3 points.
The shots were 50-48 and both teams scored 2 PPG
Att 261

Golden and the Rockies did not play Friday.

One game of note two near perfect teams Kelowna and Nelson faced off in Nelson Friday and Kelowna won 6-2. 
KIJHL points leader Brody Dale had 2G 2A

Ghostriders make some changes

Ghostrider Head Coach Jeff Wagner made a few changes to his roster yesterday. First of all he sent goaltender Zak Larson’s Hockey Canada rights to Grand Forks for a player development fee.

Wagner kept three goalies (so everyone knew something was going to happen) until yesterday but with December 1st on the horizon and the fact that as the season wears on it can get harder and harder to find a place for guys to play, he made some moves. 

The goal isn’t just to get down to 23, you want to find spots for your guys to play. 

Larson is a twenty year old and the two other goalies Riley Fonger and Justin Faiella are 18 and 19 so could play in Fernie next season, in junior you alway have to look ahead.

Press Release
The Fernie Ghostriders have sent (98) G Zak Larson to the Grand Forks Border Bruins for a PDF. The organization would like to thank Zak for his time and effort over the last year and a half and wish him all the best in Grand Forks.

Next Wagner brought in David Lenzin from Revelstoke for a PDF. Lenzin is another 20 year old (you can carry 5, Fernie has 4)  who had some really good numbers in Revy, 5 goals and 6 assists in 7 games so he should be able to add lots to the Rider offence plus he plays on the PP. Lenzin will be in the lineup Friday and Saturday here in Fernie. 

Press release.The Fernie Ghostriders are excited to announce the acquisition of (98) F David Lenzin from the Revelstoke Grizzlies! He will be in the line up this weekend! Welcome to Fernie, David. #RideTogether

With the addition of Lenzin coach Wagner had to find a spot for 18 year old winger Cole Gibson who had 2 assists in 8 games. Gibson is going to Beaver Valley to a coach (Terry Jones) that the players really seem to like.

 Press Release

The Fernie Ghostriders have sent (00) F Cole Gibson to the Beaver Valley NiteHawks in exchange for a PDF. We thank Cole for his time with the team and wish him the best in his future endeavours!

Ghostrider News and Notes Oct 24

The Ghostriders split last weekend’s games winning 3-2 at home against Chase then losing 3-1 on the road in Kimberley.

Against Chase the goal scorers were Jordan Kromm with his 6th from Brendan Nemes. Owen Titus with his 3rd from Eric Welford and Keelan Saworski from Sawan Gill and Dylan Defosse scored the game winning goal on the power play. Justin Faiella was in net for the win, it was his second win in three games. The shots were 37-26 Fernie and 630 fans were at the game.

In Kimberley the Riders lost 3-1 and were outshot 38-15 but Riley Fonger kept the game close and was named as the player of the game. Nikolas Sombrowski from Kory Zinck and Kyle Ford scored the Rider goal and the attendance was 581.

Ghostrider Notes

The Tim Horton’s Player of the Week was shared by goalies Riley Fonger and Justin Faiella and the McDonald’s Practice Player of the Week was Chase Fioretti.

Both Jordan Kromm and Brendan Nemes left the game in Kimberley after an uncalled hits and slashes. They are  day to day but possible for this weekend games.

 Saturday's game vs Castlegar will be the last game in the Fernie arena for about a month, or until the roof repairs are finished. The City says they should be done by December 1st. They were right about the new ice plant starting on time, so lets give them the benefit of the doubt.

So with that in mind coach Wagner tells us the scheduled November 9th and 24th games that are on your beer fridge magnet schedule will be played in Sparwood. The November 15th game vs the suddenly first place contending Rockies will be played in Fernie in January. Both teams will be down to their final playoff roster by then, it will be a good show. The Riders are in Invermere on November 23.

The Kamloops Storm are in town Friday for their one and only game. Kamloops lost 12-2 to Summerland last Friday then won 5-1 last Saturday against Grand Forks and 5-3 vs Chase Tuesday night. 

Chris Thon will be back in the Storm lineup  after serving a 4 game suspension but Lincoln Connor who got 6 games for an attempt to injure won’t. Another one who won’t be is their GM Barry Dewar he is suspended for tampering in the off season...but he says it’s a f'n lie and he’s innocent.Well he said something like that anyway. Fact, someone ratted him out, tampering is very hard to prove. 

NEXT HOME GAMES

The Castlegar Rebels are in town Saturday, the Ghostriders played a hard fought game in Castlegar September 21st and won 4-0. In that game Brandon Costa hit Eric Welford in the head and got a two game suspension. Welford got two injury weeks.

Right now the Rebels Colby Winla is serving a 4 game match penalty for attempting to injure a Princeton player and Dallas Goodwin is serving a 9 game suspension for head contact on a player and a physical abuse of an official in a game in Kimberley. 

Hunter Maximunk is the newest Rebel, he was just traded from Kimberley.Their Head Coach and GM is Carter Duffin.

Round’ the League

Last Sunday the Rockies won in Armstrong and Golden won in Beaver Valley so after the weekend the Rockies were 1 point behind Kimberley and Golden was 1point behind Fernie, but the Riders have 2 games in hand on Golden and one on the Rockies. You have to win those games in hand...two struggling teams, Kamloops and Castlegar, are in town this weekend, these look like two winnable games.

After last weekend the Revelstoke Grizzlies are the only undefeated team. Kelowna has had 1 overtime loss and Nelson lost a game because they used an ineligible player. Kelowna is in Nelson Friday a possible game of the week.

The Ghostriders Weekend Special:

Save some money and get admission for BOTH games:

October 26 vs Kamloops
October 27 vs Castlegar

Adults: $18
Seniors,Students,Children: $10

See you at the Fernie Memorial!

The standings on the mountain tighten up

Both Golden and the Rockies won their games Sunday thus tightening up the standings. Fernie still has two games in hand over Golden and one on the Rockies.

The Ghostriders play Kamloops and Castlegar Friday and Saturday and both games are here in Fernie.

The Fernie Ghostriders invite all fans ages 10 and under to enter a draw to go Trick-or-Treating with the Ghostriders with each admission to remaining home games in October. Winners will be announced at the October 27th game vs the Castlegar Rebels and online for those who can not make it to the game.


Golden 4 @ BV 1
In Beaver Valley the Rockets and the Hawks were both playing  their third games in a row and Golden was on a 3 game road trip but surprised the Hawks with a 4-1 win stopping a 3 game losing streak.
 The shots were even at 35 and goalie Ryan Baker had the win and was the player of the game. Jay Hendricks had 2G 1A. Top gun Dominic Turner was not in the lineup.

BV’s goalie was Saran Virdee Rider fans will remember Virdee was released last month but surfaced in BV last week. BV has several guys out with injuries

Columbia Valley 3 @ North Oak 2 

In Armstrong the Rockies and Knights were both playing their third games in a row but it was the Rockies who got the win, their first win on their 3 game road trip.
CVR Goalie Ben Kelsch was the Rockies player of the game and the shots were 36-26 CVR. Kale Hawryluk had the game winner in the second period.

The Eddie Mountain Breakdance Oct 20

Fernie 1 @ Kimberley 3

In Kimberley Chase Gedny, Brock Palmer (GW) and Eric Delaire scored the goals and Adam Anderson had the win in net.

Shots 38-16 KD Nikolas Sombrowski scored the lone FG goal and Riley Fonger was the Riders player of the game stoping 35 of 38 shots.
PP- FG 0-5 KD 0-2
Att 581

Chase 3 @ Creston 4 

In Creston Austin Cante’s second goal of the game on the PP was the game winner. Logan Berggren had a goal an an assist and Eric Samyn had the win in net in his first game CVT game.

PP Chase 1-5 Creston 2-9


Columbia Valley 3 @ Osoyoos 4  2nd OT

In Osoyoos Ryan MacDonald scored the double OT winner and Daniel Paul had the win in net. Pete Michallides and  Bryson Garska each had 3 point nights.
CVR’s Connor Davison had 2G and Ty Grant was in net.
Osoyoos 2-5 CVT 1-3 on the PP
Shots 37-44 Rockies.