The Trail Smoke Eaters made a statement with Friday’s 4-1 win over Brooks at Cominco Arena. They shut down the third highest scoring team in the BCHL, limiting the Alberta powerhouse to 21 shots on goal. The offense came early and often. Jack Kennedy’s seeing-eye screen-shot snapper from the point found the top of the […]
The Trail Smoke Eaters were plagued by poor puck luck and a pivotal third period penalty call in a 5-2 loss to the Saints on a jam-packed Friday night at Grant Fuhr Arena in Spruce Grove. The Saints opened the scoring on Steven Kirkpatrick’s breakaway goal about 13-minutes into the game. Smokies goalie Teagan Kendrick […]
Make it an even dozen! The Trail Smoke Eaters extended their franchise record winning streak to 12 games with a 7-4 shunning of Sherwood Park in front of a Cominco Arena crowd of 2,201 and it didn’t take long for the house to start rocking. Rookie Deacon Drummond drilled a shot in off the post […]
Where do you start to describe the Smoke Eaters sensational 7-4 Friday night win over Sherwood Park? The pace was torrid from the opening face-off until the final buzzer and the season-high Cominco Arena crowd of 2,268 saw goalie Teagan Kendrick make back-to-back show stopping stops on the game’s first shift, the beginning of a […]
The Trail Smoke Eaters and Cranbrook Bucks renew BCHL their Kootenay rivalry tonight (Tues) in Cranbrook. The New Year’s Eve clash features two teams who have won four of their last five games. The Smokies are also among the hottest teams in the BCHL with an 8-1-1 record in their last ten games. Smokies centreman, […]
The Trail Smoke Eaters meet the Surrey Eagles Sunday afternoon in a battle of two of the hottest teams in the BCHL. Trail’s 4-1 Saturday night triumph over the Silverbacks in Salmon Arm gives them points in four straight games including three wins, while the Eagles have points in five straight, including four victories following […]
The cardiac comeback kids from the Kootenays did it again! Jason Stefanek scored his 11th goal of the season at 3:47 overtime to give the Trail Smoke Eaters a 3-2 win in West Kelowna. It was another goaltender’s duel. Trail’s Teagan Kendrick set the bar high early, robbing Warriors forward Kelsen Podworney on a breakaway. […]
Teagan Kendrick didn’t score, nor pick up an assist, but his heroics, especially in the second period, is largely responsible for the Smoke Eaters picking up a point Friday night in Okotoks in a 3-2 overtime loss to the Oilers. The 20-year-old netminder only had to make ten saves during his sensational second period soliloquy, […]
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 […]
