Friday the Ghostriders play the Nelson Leafs from the Neil Murdoch Division. In the playoffs the winner of our division, the Eddie Mountain Division, will play the winner of the Neil Murdoch Division. Last season Nelson won their division then defeated the Ghostriders before losing to Revelstoke who ended up winning everything.
Nelson is currently in a fight with Spokane for third place , it doesn’t look like either team will be able to catch catch Beaver Valley for second place. And no one will catch Castlegar for first place in their division . Nelson’s last game was in Spokane last Sunday where the Leafs won 6-3 giving them a 6 point lead with two games in hand on the Braves.
Nelson top scorers are Gavin Currie 43pts. (Currently out with an injury) Colton Schell 31 pts. (Suspended for Friday’s game) and Joel Stewart 27 pts. In Net Darren Hogg is 11-5 and Marcus Beesley is 8-11.
The Ghostrider coaching staff picked # 8 Cale Wright as their nominee for December’s KIJHL Player of the Month. In the nine games he played in Cale scored 11 goals and added 5 assists for 16 points. The Ghostriders went 6-2-1 in December and Wright was named as a game star in three of the games…After last weekend # 9 Thomas Abenante bottom left photo was leading the KIJHL in scoring with 64 points, Scott Morisseau- top photo was right behind in second with 63 points…. a great little rivalry… Castlegar’s Ryan Aynsley was leading the KIJHL in scoring before he went to Trail of the BCHL a month ago… He wasn’t happy there and is now back in Castlegar making the Rebels a force to be recon’d with come playoff time…. Two Nelson players Fernie fans may recognize… 20 year old Joel Stewart played 2 seasons in Spokane before being traded to Nelson three months ago, he had 107 points as a Brave to go along with 400 PIM…. and Brennan Foreman was in his fourth season in Kimberley before all the coaching trouble started, when it was over and just before the coaching staff had been replaced, Foreman was traded from his hometown to Nelson . He has 25 pts. and 104 PIM… Ghostrider Zach Baba is serving a 1 game suspension tonight for a game misconduct at the end of the Invermere game… he also had a pretty good tilt with last season’s penalty minute leader Jake Halderman in that game… Former Ghostrider “D” man Zach Traverse left Fernie to go to school and is now a Saanich Brave. He has played 3 games and has 2 assists…. Andrew Walton bottom right photo- earned his first shutout as a Ghostrider last week and now has 4 on the year… Cale Wright was the Tim Horton’s Player of the week and Ty Morton scored the Subway Goal of the Week.
