The Trail Smoke Eaters snapped an 0-for-18 slump on the power play with four goals on the man advantage, the difference in a 5-1 win over Spruce Grove at Cominco Arena. The Smokies started slowly as the Saints had a substantial territorial edge in the first period, but were held at bay by the 11 […]
It’s hockey night in Trail as the Smoke Eaters host the Spruce Grove Saints. The Trail troupe is looking to bounce back from Wednesday’s 5-2 loss to the league-leading Brooks Bandits, on a night when puck luck eluded them. The Saints are another one of the five teams who left the AJHL for the BCHL […]
It was a night of opportunities; some missed, others converted. Unfortunately for the Trail Smoke Eaters, the league-leading Brooks Bandits scored four unanswered goals over a 17-minute span to post a 5-2 win at Cominco Arena. The Smokies struck first. With Jason Stefanek crashing the net, Attila Lippai’s shot from the left-wing boards found the […]
The Trail Smoke Eaters go for their third straight win tonight when they host the overall leaders of the BCHL. The Brooks Bandits, one of the five additions this season from the AJHL, are 11-1 on the season, having suffered their first setback over the weekend. The perennial contender while in the Alberta Junior Hockey […]
The Smokies dramatic 2-1 overtime win in Salmon Arm was in very many ways a “Shuswap surprise”! Lucas Lemieux scored a shorthanded goal with less than one second remaining in the third period to send the game to the extra period. Judah Makway was serving an interference penalty after a wild goalmouth scramble with 30-seconds […]
The intense rivalry between the Trail Smoke Eaters and the Penticton Vees heats up again tonight at Cominco Arena. Their first clash of the regular season comes a week after Trail’s first home ice loss of the campaign. The Smokies hope to atone for last Friday’s 4-3 setback against Cranbrook, which ended a run of […]
It was a crazy game. The Smoke Eaters scored three unanswered third period goals to put away the Powell River Kings 7-5 to close out their BCHL Showcase and a stretch of four games in less than five days. Trail jumped out to a 2-0 lead on goals by Attila Lippai at about the five […]
Holly Hannah, what a game! Judah Makway’s power play goal 1:28 into overtime got his teammates pouring off the bench in celebration and and thrilled the many Smoke Eater jersey-clad fans on hand, as Trail triumphed 6-5 in Victoria, ending a wild, wide-open display of offense by both teams. It didn’t start well for the […]
Friday night’s Smoke Eaters win was 8-standing! In addition to the 8-2 victory over the Warriors, the 1,505 Cominco Arena fans got to see a highlight reel goal by Jason Stefanek. His dirty-dangle in tight quarters through the West Kelowna defense was finished by a dastardly deke and the backhand burial of the biscuit past […]
It’s hockey night in Trail. The Smoke Eaters host the West Kelowna Warriors in the opener of a home-and-home series. The last meeting between these teams at Cominco Arena was memorable. Noah Ziskie sniped a goal late in the third period and fellow Smokies defenseman Lucas Lemieux ended the game with a highlight reel overtime […]
