The Smoke Eaters turned in a super 60-minute effort, posting a 5-2 Friday night win over the second-place Vernon Vipers in front of 1,334 Cominco Arena fans. After giving up the first goal just two and a half minutes into the game, the Trail troupe took over. A dominant 12 minutes later, Ethan Mann, in his first […]

The Trail Smoke Eaters road trip continued to be memorable and on Saturday night they created a fond, but anxious memory with a 5-4 victory. They awoke to a power outage in Powell River and endured another long day of travel by bus and ferries which started at 7:30 a.m. and ended with the 3:45 p.m. […]

Another close game and another close loss to their Kootenay rival. The Cranbrook Bucks took their first lead of the night at 1:14 of the third period and held on for a 3-2 win, their first at home this season.   The Smokies got off to a sensational and dominant start, forcing Bucks goalie Danick Leroux to […]

And so it begins.   The Trail Smoke Eaters open the 2023-24 regular season against their Kootenay rival, the Cranbrook Bucks tonight at Cominco Arena.   They met twice during the preseason with the Bucks winning 6-4 in Trail and 4-3 back home in last Saturday’s preseason finale for both teams, which saw Cranbrook come […]

Trail, British Columbia (September 20, 2023) – The Trail Smoke Eaters are pleased to announce this season’s leadership group. Ethan Warrener has been named team captian with Josh Schenk, Ethan Mann and Adam Parsons serving as assistant captians. “We are excited to name our leadership group today. This group makes up players that have been […]