It’s not do or die for the Trail Smoke Eaters tonight in Salmon Arm, but pretty close. They trail the Silverbacks 2-0 in their best-of-seven BCHL opening round playoff series with the next two games on the road. The Smokies battled back from a 2-0 deficit early in the second period on Saturday to tie […]
For a second straight night, a closely contested, fast-paced, hard-fought, prototypical playoff game came down to a single shot. Keifer Miller scored on a rebound at 3:58 of overtime to give Salmon Arm a 3-2 win over the Smokies and a 2-0 lead in their best-of-seven BCHL opening round playoff series. It was Miller’s second […]
It’s playoff time! The Smokies host Salmon Arm in tonight’s opener of their best-of-seven BCHL opening round series. The season series and comparable statistics suggest it will be close. Trail won the head-to-head showdown 4-3, with the opening win coming in a shootout. Christian Kim had four goals and four assists versus the Silverbacks and […]
Cooper Michaluk was brilliant. He was one stop away from duplicating his monumental feat of October 4 in Brooks when he backstopped Trail to an overtime win over the Bandits. A perfectly placed shot by Jack Good at 6:41 of the extra period gave the Bandits a 1-0 win over the Smokies who turned in […]
The Smokies fell behind less than a minute after the opening face off, but recovered to tie the game on a Cash Carter deflection just past the nine minute mark. The Smokies took charge in the second half of the second period and the goal post was all that stood in the way of taking […]
The All Star break is over and it’s back to business for the Trail Smoke Eater tonight in Spruce Grove. The Smokies want to rebound from a 1-and-4 start to the second half including recent back to back losses at home to West Kelowna and Cowichan Valley. And they will have to do it against […]
Take away the first 7:35 and it was an outstanding game for the Smoke Eaters. However, West Kelowna was leading 4-0 at that point and held on for a 5-4 win in front of a Cominco Arena crowd of 2,059. Caden Kemkaren-Humble opened the scoring at 2:59, scoring on a breakaway to end the game’s […]
The Trail Smoke Eaters are looking to avenge Wednesday’s 7-4 loss in Cranbrook. They host the Bucks tonight, hoping the New Year’s Eve setback was an anomaly. The Smokies had only given up a total of eight goals over the previous five contests heading into the first game following the Christmas break. They had also […]
The Trail Smoke Eaters close out the pre-Christmas portion of their 2025-26 schedule at home tonight against the Okotoks Oilers. It’s the third game of the season series that started November 7 in Okotoks with the Oilers riding Brett Wilson’s hat trick to an 8-3 win and the Smokies rebounding with a 7-1 victory at […]
The Smokies rode a pair of late period surges to a 5-2 win over Brooks, much to the delight of the Cominco Arena crowd of 1,724. The highlight of a tightly played first period was Trail goalie Lyam Leblanc’s gargantuan glove save off Dimitris Dilevka. The 20-year-old puck stopper turned in a superlative 30 save […]
