It’s back on the bus for the boys of Trail, as the Smoke Eaters close out the regular season on the road. It begins with a Friday night matchup against the regular season conference and defending BCHL champion Penticton Vees. The Smoke Eaters’ lone victory in the six head-to-head matchups this season was a 4-3 […]

The Trail Smoke Eaters ended a three game slide in their final home game of the regular season with Sunday’s 5-1 fanning of the Cranbrook Bucks. The first goal in the tight defensive battle didn’t come until 2:36 of the second period, when Kailus Green buried a loose puck turned over in front of the […]

The Smoke Eaters and Spruce Kings generated just five shots in the first period and scored five goals in the second, as Trail battled back from a pair of one-goal deficits to beat Prince George 5-2 at Cominco Arena. The floodgates opened at 3:45 of the middle frame when Spruce Kings defenseman Ben FeFranc’s shorthanded […]

The Centennials scored in the last minute in each of the first two periods, including a shorthanded goal on their way to a 5-1 win in Merritt to open a home-and-home series against the Trail Smoke Eaters on Friday night. The game also featured a goal that went under the Trail net as it was […]

It’s hockey night in Cranbrook. The Smoke Eaters are bound by bus for the East Kootenay to battle the Bucks. Trail has taken off early in the second half of the season. Sunday’s 4-1 patient pumping of Prince George at Cominco Arena was their fourth win in five games since the Christmas break. Judah Makway […]

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 […]