Our Twenty Year old Players, Cole Fournier, Cole Fisher, Luke Schaeffer, Levi Hall, Kaden Slobodian and Landon Hedges
After two games in Fernie the Riders and Rockies’ series is tied 1-1. The Ghostriders won game one 6-2, but in game two, a more determined Rockies team showed up and won 4-1. The series resumes in Invermere on Monday and Tuesday then comes back to Fernie on Thursday March 14th. If there is a game 6 it is in CVR on the 16th and game 7 would be on Monday March 18th in Fernie. All games start at 7:00.
Notes From Under the Bleachers… where they keep the suds
In game one Kyler Watson scored what turned out to be the game winning goal in the second period, it was his third goal and second GWG…The Riders were easily the best team in game one but the Rockies played better in game two and won, however, it came down to late in the third period when CVR’s Bryan Kim scored on a clear cut breakaway to give the Rockies a 2-1 lead…it was the turning point of the game, they scored a few minutes later, then into the empty net…Coden Fournier scored the lone goal on Saturday, it was his 4th goal and 6th point, Kaden Slobodian also has 6 points… Congrats to Cole Fisher who was named as one of the KIJHL’s Three Stars of the Week last week…There were 825 at the game Friday and 713 on Saturday, the Ghostriders organization thanks the fans for their support …On Friday the Rockies Kaelan Shelton crosschecked an unsuspecting Taylor Haggerty hard in the head right after a third period face-off… if he wasn’t wearing a screen, it would have been an actual face-off… Shelton got three games for his efforts…Nick Kunyk got the win in net Friday making several great saves… The Riders Levi Hall lost on Saturday… but the skaters kinda hung him out to dry a couple of times … HC & GM Brad Tobin was not re-signed in Creston, he joins Brad Fox (Chase) and Dale Hladun (100 Mile) as coaches on the outs… In Spokane they replaced Darin Schumacher with Mike Bay who coached Spokane in a previous life, one of Bay’s assistant Coaches will be former Ghostriders standout goalie Jason Greenwell who played a couple of season’s here under HC & GM Will Verner…BC Hockey brought back the Mowat Cup read that here …whenFernie was in the old RMJHL the RMJHL winner played the BCHL winner for the Mowat Cup and a chance to play in the Centennial Cup… the last time an RMJHL team played for the Mowat was in 1999 when Kimberley lost 3-1 to Vernon, who went on to win the Centennial Cup… can you guess which Head Coach and General Manager (that you see at every Rider game) was on that team…For the record, Fernie’s HC & GM that year… Fred Harbinson, currently with Pentiction … also for the record Fred had visions of a Superleague dancing in his head way back then…Yorkton of the SJHL was going bankrupt and asked the public to help them keep the team, they sold 1000 seasons tickets, it worked
Round’ the League
Beaver Valley and Grand Forks are tied at 1-1, North Okanagan leads Princeton 2-0 and Revelstoke leads Kamloops 2-0
Fisher POW
