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 […]

The Vernon Vipers make their first 2025-26 visit to Cominco Arena tonight, as the Trail Smoke Eaters lift the lid on a second straight home-ice doubleheader weekend. Both teams are coming off victories. The Smokies offense was in high gear last Saturday night, stunning Okotoks 7-1. Zach Coutu snapped a 13-game goalless drought sniping the […]

The Smokies went “all in” on a sensational Saturday night in Sherwood Park and “Cashed” in, coming home with a 3-2 win in overtime. Cash Carter’s prime time shot went post and in about seven minutes into the tie-breaking period to give Trail its fifth overtime victory and 13th win of the season. Although Carter […]

The streaking Smokies strike again! The Trail troupe increased its overall winning streak to five and have now won a team record nine straight road games following a thrilling 3-2 overtime victory in West Kelowna. That’s the good news. The bad news is starting goaltender Cooper Michaluk is out indefinitely with a lower body injury […]