#4 Vernon Vipers vs. #5 Trail Smoke Eaters Head-to-Head: Trail won the season series 4-1 with one of their wins coming in overtime. Top Performers: Vernon – F Hank Cleaves (51 points), F Owen Kim (49 points), D Anthony Cliche (35 points), G Ethan David (.909 save percentage) Trail – F Mathieu Cobetto-Roy (51 points), […]
The last time the Trail Smoke Eaters won a regular season game in Penticton was November 6th, 2019. The drought is over after 1,605 nights. Teagan Kendrick turned in a terrific 47-save performance, backstopping the Smokies to a 4-2 triumph at the South Okanagan Events Centre. He held the Vees at bay after the home […]
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 Smoke Eaters play their second of three games this month in Salmon Arm in a Friday night showdown against the Silverbacks, looking for their fifth straight win. It’s also a return to the scene of arguably their best performance of the season. The 4-1 win on March 2nd was anchored by a stellar 29-save […]
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 Trail Smoke Eaters are bus-bound for the land of the Bucks. The Friday night battle in Cranbrook is the eighth meeting in the season series between the BCHL’s Kootenay contingent. The Smokies want to rebound from last weekend’s back-to-back losses to Merritt, while the Bucks want to carry the momentum from Monday’s 9-1 mauling […]
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 […]
Welcome back to Cominco Arena! The Trail Smoke Eaters make their return to home ice for the first time in almost two weeks. They host the Victoria Grizzlies riding a three game winning streak following the 3-2 win in Cranbrook nine nights ago and the All-Star break. The Trail troup has won five of their […]
The second largest Cominco Arena crowd of the 2023-24 season saw a Smoke Eaters rookie record a highlight reel goal for his first in the BCHL and witnessed the team’s hottest shooter snipe his first hat-trick of the campaign during a 9-4 win over Langley, delighting the 2,170 fans in Trail. Mathieu Cobetto-Roy got the […]
The Trail Smoke Eaters are looking for a third straight win Saturday night in Vernon and their third straight win over the Vipers. The second half of the season got off to a great start last weekend with an impressive double-header sweep of Cranbrook. The triumphant twin-bill was highlighted by Teagan Kendrick’s first BCHL shutout […]
