Wednesday 30 December 2015

Dec 30th @ Trail PREVIEW

The West Kelowna Warriors return from the Christmas break tonight as the board the bus to take on the Trail Smoke Eaters at Cominco Arena.

The Warriors are coming off a split against the Penticton Vees, while the Smoke Eaters have been hot lately, going 6-4 in their last 10, while moving within 1 point of a playoff spot (with 3 games in hand on the Vernon Vipers)

In what is becoming a holiday tradition, this will be the 3rd consecutive year that the Warriors have visited Trail coming off the Christmas break.  West Kelowna is 1-1 in those games, winning 4-3 in 2013/2014 and losing 7-3 last season.

Being around the rink for the first two practices post-break, the mood is light and it will be interesting to see how the focus comes back heading into the match-up against the Smoke Eaters. It's about to be a busy stretch for West Kelowna, as the Warriors will play 13 games in 33 days (including the Exhibition January 18th against Red Bull Salzburg)


Stats Pack:
Trail – 17-19-0-0

HOME – 10-7-0-0
ROAD – 7-12-0-0


Top Scorers
Nick Halloran (16 G, 16 A)
Ross Armour (9 G, 19 A)
Jake Kauppila (9 G, 15 A)

GF – 111
GA – 143

PP – 8th – 30 for 153 (19.6%)
PK – 6th – 137 for 164 (83.5%)

West Kelowna – 20-14-0-2

HOME – 12-6-0-1
ROAD – 8-8-0-1


Top Scorers
Liam Blackburn (18 G, 26 A)
Kylar Hope (18 G, 21 A)
Jonathan Desbiens (21 G, 18 A)

GF – 136
GA – 128

PP – 3rd – 39 for 166 (23.5%)
PK – 8th – 148 for 183 (80.9%)

Next Game – Saturday January 2nd
@ Merritt – 7:30 PM
Head-to-Head Lifetime – West Kelowna is 45-14-0-6 vs. Trail All-Time
The Warriors are 20-10-0-1 vs. Smoke Eaters at Cominco Arena


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