Ghostriders 3 Rockets 0

With a 3-0 win over the Golden Rockets on Tuesday night in Fernie the Riders are now six points up on the second place Rockets. Bond Hawryluk (Jordan Hirano-Brendan Hawryluk) opened the scoring twelve minutes into the first then a few minutes later Keanan Patershuk (Joel James) scored what turned out to be the insurance goal a few minutes later. Only one more goal in this game that was in the second from Tim Crawley after receiving a great pass from Scott Anderson.

Note Book or a little more "misinformation" on the Golden game

The Ghostriders outshot Golden 38-18 last Tuesday and won 3-0 here in Fernie. The goal scorers were Bond Hawryluk, Keanan Patershuk and Tim Crawley…The line of Jordan Hirano, Bond Hawryluk and Brendan Hawryluk seemed to be the most dangerous line for the Riders all night but they only managed one goal on all the chances they created…. In the second period high scoring defenseman Scott Anderson packed the puck down the ice and behind the net before making a great pass to Tim Crawley for the second goal and his 24th point…Crawley for the record has 15 points in his last 7 games….Sixteen year old Keanan Patershuk -photo left- fired in a perfectly aimed shot on Rocket goalie Spencer Wong on a broken play in the first and narrowly missed a second goal on a great deflection in the third.…Jason Greenwell wasn’t named as a star but got the shutout, and although he only had eighteen shots, a few of them near the end of the game were high % chances so you could make a case for a game star….This was the second game in a row a team comes in to Fernie with their top scorer plucked away by the AJHL Jr. ”A” vultures. Last week it was Spokane in here without Joel Stewart the KIJHL’s top scorer (we hear he’s going back to Spoke) and on Tuesday the Rockets played without Spencer Pommells who has 2 goals in 3 games with St. Albert…Injuries…The Ghostriders are without Liam Gorges and Mike Wiest but Zach Traverse -photo below- who missed last Tuesday should be back for the weekend series with the Nitros.

With the win the Riders have a 2-1 lead in the season series with the Rockets…. Next up the Kimberley Dynamiters who held the Riders to a 2-2 tie on Halloween and lost 3-2 in Fernie October 9.

Ghostriders play Golden Tonight @ 7:30-Hawryluk bros. play tonight

The Ghostriders play the Golden Rockets tonight for only the third time this season. The first game was in Golden where the Rockets won 2-1 the second game was in Fernie where the Riders won 4-1. Golden has slipped a bit since the last time they were here when they were in first place and now they are in second place four points behind the Ghostriders.  The Rockets also lost their top scorer Spencer Pommells who moved up to Jr. “A”. Golden won their last game at home over the Dynamiters by a 5-4 score. Last weekend the Riders won both of their games, 9-1 against Spokane and 12 -5 against the Columbia Valley Rockies.

Both Bond and Brendan Hawryluk will be in the lineup tonight after playing in Quesnel for the last two weeks. Welcome back Brendan and Bond!!!

Ghostriders 9 Braves 1

Matt MacDonald lead the way with 2 goals and 3 assists as the Ghostriders bomb the first place Spokane Braves 9-1 on Friday night. Jesse Niemi with 4 points and 27 PIM was also a factor in this one. The other goal scorers were Mitch Board with 3, Mark Strachan, James Werner and Josh Garneau.  Jason Greenwell got the win in net for the Riders who with the win kept their two point lead over  the Golden Rockets who won vs Kimberley. The Rockets will play in Fernie November 10-- a Tuesday nighter...

Scott Anderson is the Ghostriders nominee for the KIJHL Player of the Month

The Fernie Ghostriders Player of the Month for October is #6 Scott Anderson. Scott is in his 5th season with the Riders as he was apart of both the 2007 and 2008 KIJHL championship teams. During the month of October Scott recorded 6 assists in 9 games and currently sits 2nd in scoring for all KIJHL dmen with 18 points. Scott is matched against the oppositions top line each and every game.

Riders 7 Creston 3-photos thanks to Pam McSkimming

On Tuesday The Ghostriders played in Creston where they hammered the Cats 7-3….

Scott Anderson -above- was the first star with 4 assists,

Mike Anderson -above- was the second star with 3 assists and with 2 goals Joel James -below-was the third star..

Matt MacDonald-above- Tim Crawley, Josh Garneau and Brendan Mangone with a pair rounded out the scoring….175 fans saw that game….

Tim Crawley -above- has 8 points in his last four games….The Ghostriders who are now 4-0 vs Creston have outscored the Cats 25- 8 and have made the three guys below very happy.

Jesse Niemi-above is back in the lineup after playing 3 games with the Trail Smoke Eaters where he had five points and was named as a second star in Trail’s 4-3 win in Prince George

….Jason Greenwell above was in net in Creston and now has a 12-3-1 record with a 1.62 GAA…

Evan Burgess-above- has really impressed the coaches lately

Trail Blogger Shawn Mullin talks about Jesse Niemi 's three games in Trail

3. Jesse Niemi: I don't know if Niemi was the third best Smoke Eater on the road trip. He probably wasn't as we didn't really see him log a ton of ice time or play on special teams. However, you have to appreciate how well he performed under the circumstances. Here we have a 20 year old from the KIJHL's Fernie Ghostriders who has never played a regular season BCHL game. He took two years off of hockey before returning to give it another shot late last season. Now he finds himself as a rare over age AP on a 12 hour road trip with a bunch of strangers. So what did Niemi do? He went out and scored 5 points in 3 games. Only Dyck could match that among the Smokies regulars over the same span. Right now he is only officially credited with 3 of those points, but upon further review he'll have 2 more assists added to his total from the Quesnel game. Niemi also did all of that after sustaining an upper body injury in the game against Prince George. I know they are proud of him over at the Ghostriders blog. He told me in an interview that he didn't want to regret not giving the BCHL a shot even if there were long odds of him making much of an impact. The Salmon Arm native can more than hold his head high after that weekend.

Jesse Niemi is back from Trail and will play tonight in Creston

From Coach Will Verner " Here is a pic of elkford senior secondary (in uniforms) and our guys after the ball hockey match. Elkford won in Overtime as our club went on the attack as we pulled James Werner from the net to get more offense".