Fernie vs Creston Friday Night

The Ghostriders play the Creston Thunder Cats Friday, this will be the sixth time this season these two teams have played each other. So far Fernie leads the series 3 games to 2. Creston won the last two games, 5-3 here in Fernie on December 28 and 4-3 in OT in Creston on New Year’s Eve.

With 50 points it is unlikely that the third place Cats can catch either Fernie 62, or Kimberley with 60 and Golden with 34 is too far out of it to even come close to Creston and they will play whoever finishes first in the first round of the playoffs. Creston has been hot lately and they are 7-2-0-1 in their last ten games and in their last game they defeated Revelstoke 4-3.

Creston’s December Player of the Month was #17 Jesse Collins who had 6 goals, 16 assists for 22points in 9 games.  “When we play top teams, we bring our best effort, and I’m expecting to do that on Friday,” Creston Coach Brent Heaven. Connor McLaughlin top Photo

The Ghostriders won both of their games last week,  5-4 at home against Revelstoke (Chris Solecki was in net) and in double overtime the Ghostriders defeated the Nelson Leafs 4-3 with Fraser Abdallah between the pipes. Former Leaf  # 12 Connor Mclaughlin scored the first goal and the last goal in OT for the win.  Since coming back from a six week injury Connor has had 3 goals and an assist in 3 games. Stefan Seel and Alex Milhouse scored the other two goals in Nelson.

Milhouse for the record has had at least a point in all but 4 of the 31 games he has played. Austin Evans had 2 goals and 2 assists last week and has had 2 points in each of his last four games. Stefan Seel (photo)had a goal in each game last week and has a 5 game point streak going. Defenseman Ty Morton is averaging 1 point a game and has had 6 points in his last 3 games. The Captain is second in scoring for “D” men in the league.

Derek Georgopoulos was injured in Nelson and will miss the next 4-6 weeks but remains a possibility for the playoffs in February. Derek is the only injury as of this week.