Riders lose 4-2 to the Rockies

Lucky Friday the 13th wasn't so lucky for the Ghostriders who lost a 4-2 (1 EN Goal) decision to the Columbia Valley Rockies who are now 4-0 vs the Riders and on a 4 game win streak.  They are also tied with Fernie in the standings .

The Riders still have 2 games in hand but with the number of injuries they have they could end up in fourth before they heal up.

Lots of shots and Fernie's Jeff Orser  and Rockies Connor McKay were both called upon to make some big saves but neither was a game star and many of the shots were from the outside. The teams took turns in each other's end but found it hard to get the great chances on a regular basis.

Besides the injuries listed below, the difference was size, the Riders were finishing their checks regularly but it didn't seem to phase the larger Rockies. The Rockies came to play and weren't particularlly chippy and weren't getting involved in any fights either. In the third the Riders Trevor Broad tried to start a fight after he was bumped on a line change starting a scrum that resulted in a 5 minute PP for the Rockies with just 8:54 left in the game and a 3-1 lead.

The Riders killed the penalty then speedy AP Evan Traverse scored his first ever goal with 3:17 left. Evan Reid had the assist and also scored the first goal. Reid, who was a D man last season was one of the bright spots for the Ghost up front with a goal and an assist and 3 goals and 2 assists in his last four games. 

The Riders had some chances with their net empty  but Mike Cardinal put one in with :09 left on the clock. Harrison Davies with a goal and an assist had the game winner.

The Riders were without D men Travis Thomsen and Ryan Teslak then Keagan Kingwell got hurt in the second and didn't play in the third. A devastating blow with these guys out and likely Trevor Broad tonight as well for the fight in the last ten minutes. As for the forwards Aidan Wilson, Mack Differenz, Spencer Bender and Cole Keebler were also out and that probably hurt the PP which is one of the highest scoring ones in the league.
Newcomer Nolan Lagace looks better every shift and when the team gets healthy, if they ever do, he will really be a bonus.

Tonight it's the Kamloops Storm here in Fernie, they lost 4-2 as well last night in Kimberley  with an EN goal too. The Storm, who play a very defensive game outshot the Dynamiters 27-17 last night but found Tyson Brouwer just as hard to solve as he was in the KI final last year against the Storm. 
AP Evan Traverse

Columbia Valley Rockies	@	Fernie Ghostriders
4		2

SCORING 1 2 3 TOTAL Columbia Valley Rockies 1 0 3 4 Fernie Ghostriders 1 0 1 2 SHOTS 1 2 3 TOTAL Columbia Valley Rockies 9 11 14 34 Fernie Ghostriders 11 9 18 38 POWER PLAYS Columbia Valley Rockies 1 for 4 (25.0%) Fernie Ghostriders 0 for 2 (00.0%)

GAME DETAILS GAME DATE Nov. 13, 2015 LOCATION Fernie Memorial Arena  VENUE START TIME 7:30PM REFEREE 1 Monty Taylor REFEREE 2 - LINESMAN 1 Will Casper LINESMAN 2 Travis Baher SCOREKEEPER Murray Brockmeyer ATTENDANCE 381

STARS OF THE GAME
HOME STAR	AWAY STAR
Fernie Ghostriders Evan Reid	Columbia Valley Rockies Micheal Cardinal

SCORING SUMMARY

PERIOD 1

1-0 Fernie Ghostriders at 14:00 - Evan Reid from  Tayler Sincennes

1-1 Columbia Valley Rockies at 12:04 (PP) - Colton Sandboe from  Donoven Quintin and Micheal Cardinal

PERIOD 2

No Scoring

PERIOD 3

2-1 Columbia Valley Rockies at 14:25 - Zachary Ross from  Harrison Davies

3-1 Columbia Valley Rockies at 7:14 - Harrison Davies from  Nigel Swab and Colton Sandboe

3-2 Fernie Ghostriders at 3:17 - Evan Traverse from  Evan Reid

4-2 Columbia Valley Rockies at 0:09 (EN)- Micheal Cardinal (unassisted)

PENALTY SUMMARY

PERIOD 1

Fernie Ghostriders at 13:04 - Alex Cheveldave for Goaltender interference (2 Min.)

PERIOD 2

Columbia Valley Rockies at 17:11 - Liam Thomas for Roughing (2 Min.)

Columbia Valley Rockies at 10:35 - Donoven Quintin for Cross-checking (2 Min.)

Fernie Ghostriders at 3:15 - Justin Peers for High-sticking (4 Min.)

PERIOD 3

Fernie Ghostriders at 8:54 - Trevor Broad for Fighting (5 Min.)

Columbia Valley Rockies at 8:54 - Donoven Quintin for Roughing After The Whistle (2 Min.)

Columbia Valley Rockies at 8:54 - Micheal Cardinal for Roughing After The Whistle (2 Min.)

Fernie Ghostriders at 8:54 - Ty Carron for Roughing After The Whistle (2 Min.)

Fernie Ghostriders at 8:54 - Trevor Broad for Instigator (2 Min.)

Columbia Valley Rockies at 8:54 - Donoven Quintin for Game Misconduct

Fernie Ghostriders at 8:54 - Trevor Broad for Game Misconduct

Fernie Ghostriders at :09 - Alex Cheveldave for Roughing (2 Min.)

COLUMBIA VALLEY ROCKIES PLAYER STATS
#	Player	G	A	PTS	+/-	SH	PIM
3	Ty Duncan	0	0	0	E	0	0
4	Harrison Davies	1	1	2	E	0	0
5	Kobe Eagletail	0	0	0	E	0	0
9	Kolten Nelson	0	0	0	E	0	0
11	Malcolm Fenelon	0	0	0	E	0	0
12	Nigel Swab	0	1	1	E	0	0
13	Colton Robb	0	0	0	E	0	0
14	Colton Sandboe	1	1	2	E	0	0
15	Will Reynish	0	0	0	E	0	0
16	Ryan St.Jean	0	0	0	E	0	0
18	Donoven Quintin	0	1	1	E	0	4
19	Quinn Sobus	0	0	0	E	0	0
20	Zachary Ross	1	0	1	E	0	0
21	Micheal Cardinal	1	1	2	E	0	2
22	Luke Bellerose	0	0	0	E	0	0
23	Nolan Menard	0	0	0	E	0	0
24	Davin Burton	0	0	0	E	0	0
26	Liam Thomas	0	0	0	E	0	2

COLUMBIA VALLEY ROCKIES GOALIE STATS
#	Player	MIN.	SH	SV
1	Connor McKay (W)	60:00	38	36
30	Giovanni Sambrielaz (Backup)	0:00	0	0

FERNIE GHOSTRIDERS PLAYER STATS
#	Player	G	A	PTS	+/-	SH	PIM
3	Kevin Pierce	0	0	0	E	0	0
4	Keagan Kingwell	0	0	0	E	0	0
6	Kyle Haugo	0	0	0	E	0	0
7	Dan Burgess	0	0	0	E	0	0
9	Nolan Lagace	0	0	0	E	0	0
10	Evan Reid	1	1	2	E	0	0
12	Brandon Breithaupt	0	0	0	E	0	0
13	Ryan Kennedy	0	0	0	E	0	0
14	Zach Befus	0	0	0	E	0	0
15	Ty Carron	0	0	0	E	0	2
17	Mitch Titus	0	0	0	E	0	0
20	Trevor Broad	0	0	0	E	0	7
21	Justin Peers	0	0	0	E	0	4
22	Evan Traverse	1	0	1	E	0	0
23	Alex Cheveldave	0	0	0	E	0	4
24	Dustin Watt	0	0	0	E	0	0
26	Tayler Sincennes	0	1	1	E	0	0
28	Lane Sim	0	0	0	E	0	0

FERNIE GHOSTRIDERS GOALIE STATS
#	Player	MIN.	SH	SV
1	Jeff Orser (L)	58:20	33	30
30	Brandon Butler (Backup)	0:00	0	0

Former Rider Josh McSkimming

Former smooth skating Ghostrider Josh McSkimming  is now working on becoming a golf pro and a skier since his hockey career ended. You can see his video right here For those who don't know, Josh's dad Dan is the Ghostriders internet play by play broadcaster. One of the best in the KI

Ghostriders get a 4-2 home ice win against Golden

The Ghostriders got a much needed 4-2 win last night against a floundering Golden Rocket team who are on a 21 game losing streak, in other words they haven't won a game yet.

So the Rockets who are desperate for their first win must have watched and learned from Columbia Valley  last Saturday when they knocked Rider top scorer Cole Keebler out of the game with a two handed slash to the leg, that, although wasn't called, required an X-ray  to make sure the bone wasn't broken. And the Rockies won as well.

With that in mind, in the second the Rockets got Alex Cheveldave into a fight (Travis Kelly got the instigator) then Zach Befus fought the sticky Sean Ripley. Meaning the Riders were with out their three top scorers. Much more honourable than slashing though. Anyway,  it didn't matter the Riders secondary scorers were still able to out gun Golden. Titus 2 G Kennedy the GW Reid 1 G. See the game scoring below.

Also and probably more importantly, Brandon Butler got his first win in net this season after coming back from a long term injury.

In other Rider news, Nolan Legacy had 2 assists in his first game as a Ghostrider after coming to Fernie all the way from Fort St John yesterday AM . He was a point a game player with the Jr B Huskies and was playing with former Rider  Will Lightfoot (95) who has 5 points in 9 games so far in FSJ.

Kevin Pierce returned from Pentiction where he played a game with the Vees last Saturday .  The Vees won and it was their 19th in a row.
Vees HC and GM Fred Harbinson (Fernie HC and GM 98-2000) said "Kevin had a positive week with us, very calm with the puck which allows him to find the outlet coming out of his end, he has good offensive instincts."

Missing in action last night, Ben Sushlovsky, Travis Thomsen, Spencer Bender, Justin Peers, Cole Keebler, Aidan Wilson, Tayler Sincennes, and Mack Differenz. 

Riders win 2 of Three, the Roundup-

1/ The Ghostriders won 2 out of 3 on their long road trip last weekend. They won 2-1 in Kamloops, lost 5-1 in 100 Mile House then won 6-4 in Chase on Sunday afternoon. 
A  a recap on all last weekend's games is right Here

2/ With the two wins the Ghostriders have taken over second place in the division with 22 points, 1 point ahead of Creston... but Creston plays a home and home against the winless Golden Rockets this weekend... I know who I'm betting on.... on the other hand the Riders host Kimberley then travel to Invermere to play the Rockies who are probably the most improved team in the KI this season, and the Riders are 0-2 in Invermere so far, this will be another tough weekend for the boys

 3/ I'm looking forward to seeing the Rockies on lucky Friday the 13th when they play their first game here... Things I haven't said since Brendan Burge grew up... did I say that?

 4/ Kimberley is here in Fernie Friday night, this is the  game everyone wants to see and the Riders will be tested.  Kimberley with a 7-1-0-2 road record is on a 12 game win streak and are in first place with 32 points. They won 2-0 in Golden and 5-1 against the Rockies last week. This will be the first time they have played here in Fernie this season. The Ghostriders play their first game in Kimberley on November 20th. The newspaper says the  Nitro's may be without Jason Richter who won the KI scoring race last season ... bait from the coaching staff ?

5/ Huge couple of games from Jeff Orser, he won in Kamloops and Chase last weekend by making 93 saves.  Coach Mohr says he was great and Brandon Butler played well in his first game of the season in 100 Mile last Saturday, it was a 2-1 game till the third when 100 scored 2 PP and one even strength goal. The Wranglers were 3-8 on the PP in that game.

6/ Coach Mohr "That was a tough tough weekend" Those teams came at us, especially in 100 Mile". 
Overall Mohr tells me he was happy with the way his team competed under some adverse conditions and a three hour wait because of a rock slide before the Kamloops game that resulted in a 15 minute delay in the start of the game... not half an hour to let the guys have at least some sort of pre-game ... make your own assumptions.

7/  "He's going to stay there" That was  Coach Mohr talking about Dan Burgess who spent the weekend up front instead of on the blueline. Yeah as a D I'd like that big ape with me in his sights.

8/ Kimberley Statistition Josh Lockhart made up his All-Star Team for the Month of October, Rider "C" Cole Keebler was 1st with 22 points in 11 games Justin Peers was 3rd with16... See the full list here

9/ After reading some of the Stats packs Lockhart has posted over the last couple of years, he would get my vote to pick the KIJHL Player of the Month that we used to have...  but we don't have for the last couple of years cause more than half of the teams were too lazy to submit a player each month... Anyway, he's the ideal guy and I bet he'd do it, and even take into consideration game winners tying goals and a bunch of other things I'd never think of... The KIJHL Govs are  having a meeting this weekend... going out on the limb here... embracing the media with POM's and all trades posted etc would be very constructive boys.

10/  October had zero yellow marks on the schedule, how am I suppose to ruin the league without cooperation... keep up the good work everyone.

11/ Zach Befus and 3 goals and 2 assists in Chase last Sunday and now appears on the Top Ten Scorers List, way to go Zach, Cole Keebler is still # 1 after  2 and 4 point games last weekend.

12/  Zach Befus is the Ghostriders and  Boston Pizza's October Player of the Month. Jeff Orser was named as the Tim Horton’s Player of the Week and Ryan Kennedy was picked as the McDonald’s Practice Player of the Week. Practice player is every coaches fav.

13/ At 23 the Riders have scored the most powerplay goals, Kelowna is next with 22 the whole list is HERE

14/ Kamloops, Osoyoos and Summerland lead the league with 5 shorthanded goals, the Riders and  Creston are next with 4. The PP %'s could be skewed as sometimes PP is not indicated on the game sheet. With E-Sports this, along with the game winning goals, are not automatically entered. Kamloops has won 13 games but on this list are credited with 6.  If I were king I'd be having a meeting with them e-sports guys.

15/ Coaches have to do everything

Pascal says the Father of the Team helping his kiddo's learn to tie their ties