Nov.20th-Nov.28th

Saturday night Nov.20th the Storm faced the Nelson Leafs in Nelson and came out on the losing end falling 5-1 to the Leafs.The trip home from Nelson was very interesting as about 55 elk and 30 deer and 4 moose would come out of the bush and run across the highway in front of our bus on the Blue Berry Palson summit.Scoring for Kamloops was Mike Mccance assisted by Brody Moen.Friday night Nov.26th the Kamloops Storm took the dead last team overall in the KIJHL the Grand Forks Border Bruins way to lightly at the Mcarthur Island Sports Center as the Border Bruins would hand the Storm a 3-2 defeat.Scoring for the storm were Brett Dallen on the power play assisted by Kurt Torbalm and newly aquired Dylan Richardson with his first point as a Kamloops Storm.Dylan Richardson would score in the 3rd period to make it a 1 goal game assisted by Brett Dallen and Kevin Leschuk.Dylan Richardson was named 3rd star in the hockey game.Yesterday morning the Kamloops Storm traveled to Armstrong to face the North Okanogan Knights.The Storm came out on top 2-0 for the teams second shutout of the season with Lynden Stanwood getting credit for both of them.Scoring for the Storm were Kevin Leschuk assisted by Kurt Torbalm and Logan Hawgood and Dylan Richardson assisted by Ryan Skinner and Brett Dallen.Kevin Leschuk was named 1st star in the hockey game and Logan Hawgood was named 2nd star.The game got chippy in the 2nd period as Zack Tjadar of the Storm and Erik Chore of the Knights would dance and than Mike Mccance of the Storm would dance with Shawn Holliday of the Knights and while that fight was on Chase Mcleod of the Storm danced with Thomas Swales of the Knights resulting in Mcleod being suspended for the next game for the Storm.Also it left the team with only 3 defencemen for the 3rd period.Next action for the Kamloops Storm sees the team get on the team bus and travel to Golden Friday Dec.3rd to face the Golden Rockets than its on to Cranbrook to the Sandman Hotel where the team will call home for Friday night and Saturday night.Saturday night Dec.4th the Storm visit the Kimberly Dynamiters and than Sunday Dec.5th the Storm visit the Creston Valley Thunder Cats before returning home in the wee hours of Monday Dec.6th.You can catch all the action of the games on kijhl.ca.I will update the blog Saturday morning from the hotel and again Sunday morning from the hotel.