Leafs snap two-game slide by doubling Spokane 4-2 Saturday night in Lilac City
Nik Newman registered his first multiple point game of the season to help the Nelson Leafs snap a two-game losing streak with a 4-2 victory over the Spokane Braves in Kootenay International Junior Hockey League action Saturday night in the Lilac City.The two teams meet Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. in the NDCC Arena in the second...
Former Leafs Hikichi, Rupert make triumphant return to NDCC Arena as Chiefs pull out 4-3 overtime victory
Former Leafs Dane Rupert and Braeden Hikichi each has two points to spark the visiting Kelowna Chiefs to a 4-3 overtime victory over Nelson in Kootenay International Junior Hockey League action Friday night at the NDCC Arena.The loss was the second straight at home for the Green and White as Phil Bamber ruined the night for...
Leaf profile: Andrew Walton says 'no big deal' to play out his junior career in Nelson
Throughout the KIJHL season The Nelson Daily Sports Editor Bruce Fuhr will take a capsule look at the players on the Nelson Leafs hockey club. Today the focus in on starting netminder Andrew Walton.If someone in the crowd last year during a Nelson/Castlegar game had said in a year from now Andrew Walton would be wearing the...
Mallard's Source for Sports joins forces with stopconcussions.com to help prevent concussions in hockey
At their annual Marketing and Buying Convention, Source For Sports® and Stopconcussions.com launched their Head Zone initiative to their store owners, the sporting goods industry trade and the media. “It is amazing how our helmet manufacturers including Bauer, Reebok, CCM, Easton and Cascade, the medical community, and the ...
Kootenay Ice take optimistic approach into net BCMMHL season
By Bruce FuhrThe Nelson Daily SportsNow the fun begins.The Kootenay Ice kick off the 2011-12 B.C. Major Midget Hockey League season with plenty of optimism as the interior based squad heads to Vancouver Island for a two-game set Saturday and Sunday in Nanaimo against the North Island Silvertips.And new head coach Mario DiBella...
Mallard's Team of the Week — Kootenay Rhythm Dragons
The Kootenay Rhythm Dragons know first hand the importance of rallying around the fight against cancer. Which is why the team was right there, leading the way at the 2011 Terry Fox Run, Nelson edition, Sunday at the Lakeside waterfront. Not only is the team eager to improve the physical and psychological well being of people...
Team make push for bragging rights as Nelson City Soccer season winds down with playoff action
Time is running out on Nelson City Soccer League teams.The local adult roundball association is fully engulfed in post-season play.The first league out of the playoff gates in Nelson City Soccer is the Jackson’s Hole Men’s Masters League.
Two teams advanced down the playoff trail as Real Nelson got past Red Dog 4-3 and Ted ...
Youthful Bombers finish third at high school field hockey playday at Pass Creek Park
The L.V. Rogers Bombers finished in the middle of the pack during an opening-weekend High School Field Hockey playday Saturday at Pass Creek Park in Castlegar.The Bombers concluded the five-team event in third spot behind Rossland and South Okanagan Hornet A team from Oliver.The Bombers defeated South Okanagan B twice by...
From Youth Soccer and LVR to University of Calgary, Nelson's Luke Mori makes the most of his university opportunity
By Bruce FuhrThe Nelson Daily SportsThroughout his Nelson Youth Soccer career Luke Mori was always one of those players a little ahead of the pack.So it really should be a surprise to no one that the talented midfielder earned a spot on the roster of the University of Calgary Dinos.And not just one of those red shirt positions...
Leafs, Nitehawks post shutouts in Murdoch Division action on opening night of KIJHL
Wow! What a difference a week makes.Andrew Walton turned away 27 shots to power the Nelson Leafs to a 3-0 victory over the defending Kootenay Conference Champion, Castlegar Rebels, in Kootenay International Junior Hockey League action Friday night at the Community Complex in the Sunflower City.The win gained the Green and...
