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 […]
The Smoke Eaters beat Penticton 4-1 last Saturday in Trail, in their biggest game of the season. Tonight’s tilt in Penticton is even bigger. The franchise-record 13-game winning streak has the Smokies just two points back of the league-leading Vees. Last weekend’s win also halted Penticton’s 18-game points streak, which included 15 wins. Meanwhile, the […]
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 […]
After an unanticipated night off, the Trail Smoke Eaters return to action tonight (Sat) at home against the Okotoks Oilers. The Friday night clash against their Kootenay rivals from Cranbrook was postponed. The seven hour closure of Highway 3-95 at Yahk meant the Bucks team bus couldn’t get through. Once the highway reopened, the Bucks […]
The Smoke Eaters got at least one point from 15 different players in a wild 8-5 victory over Blackfalds. Trail’s Judah Makway led the late Sunday matinee charge at Cominco Arena with two first period goals, including his third shorthanded marker of the season. The 20-year-old power forward has scored in four straight games to […]
The Trail Smoke Eaters combined a skilled, high-paced attack with outstanding and timely goaltending and fed off an enthusiastic hometown crowd the close out the the first half of their 2024-25 season with a 7-2 win over Blackfalds. The Cominco Arena crowd of 1,479 showered the ice with wrapped toques, mitts, teddy bears and stuffies […]
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 Smokies open a two-game long-weekend run on the road tonight in Vernon. The Trail boys have had a week to prepare, after posting a 5-1 win last Friday night over Spruce Grove at Cominco Arena. It was a bounce back game following a 5-2 loss to Brooks two night’s earlier and marked a resounding […]
