It’s playoff time! The Smokies host Salmon Arm in tonight’s opener of their best-of-seven BCHL opening round series. The season series and comparable statistics suggest it will be close. Trail won the head-to-head showdown 4-3, with the opening win coming in a shootout. Christian Kim had four goals and four assists versus the Silverbacks and […]
The Smokies open a consecutive three game road trip tonight in Blackfalds. Trail has nailed down second place in the Interior West Division, while the Bulldogs are in a neck-and-neck battle with Brooks for first in the Interior East. Blackfalds has a two point lead, but the Bandits have two games in hand and ended […]
The Smokies play their lone game of the weekend tonight in Salmon Arm. It’s likely a preview of the first round of the playoffs. Trail is 3-2 in the season series with two wins in Salmon Arm, including a 4-3 shootout victory during the opening weekend of the season, which leaves the Silverbacks 2-2-0-1 in […]
Another slow start came back to bite the Trail Smoke Eaters. The Coastal West Division leading Cowichan Valley Capital built a 3-0 lead in the first 13 minutes on their way to a 6-2 win at Cominco Arena. Smokies goalie Chayse Johnson endured a 21-shot barrage in the first period and made several important saves, […]
Take away the first 7:35 and it was an outstanding game for the Smoke Eaters. However, West Kelowna was leading 4-0 at that point and held on for a 5-4 win in front of a Cominco Arena crowd of 2,059. Caden Kemkaren-Humble opened the scoring at 2:59, scoring on a breakaway to end the game’s […]
What a difference a day makes. The Smokies came out more focused and energized resulting in a 5-3 Cominco Arena conquest of the Salmon Arm Silverbacks. It started with Erik Pastro’s proficient deflection. The tall centreman tipped a Christian Kim pass through his own legs and past Silverbacks goalie Mikkel Christenson just shy of the […]
The Trail Smoke Eaters six game home winning streak ended Friday night with a 5-2 setback against their Kootenay rival, the Cranbrook Bucks. The visitors struck early on a power play with Kaslo Ferner hitting the top corner after a cross-crease pass just past the two minute mark. The Smokies pushed back and came close […]
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 […]
Former Viper Erik Pastro snapped out of a 12-game goalless drought with a vengeance. The 20-year-old Smokies centreman scored twice and assisted on another three goals as Trail tripped Vernon 6-5 in a wonderfully wild and wacky game in front of a Cominco Arena crowd of 2,098, with Pastro producing the game-winning goal into an […]
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 […]
