Smokies Announce Opening-Day Roster

Press Release

TRAIL – The Trail Smoke Eaters are pleased to announce the opening-day roster for the 2012-13 BCHL season.

The Smokies will have 3 Greater Trail products to start the season: 16 year-old forward Mitchell Foyle (Fruitvale) and 17 year-old forward Jake Lucchini (Trail) both join the Smokies from the major midget Kootenay Ice, while fellow 17 year-old Trail product Scott Davidson moves up from the Junior “B” Beaver Valley Nitehawks.

The 2012-13 roster also features Kootenay products Adam Wheeldon (Nelson), Joren Johnson (Shoreacres) and Brenden Heinrich (Kimberley); Wheeldon and Johnson are 2 of the 8 returnees from 2011-12 headlined by new captain Garrett McMullen and starting goaltender Lyndon Stanwood.

Trail will begin the season with only five of the requisite six overage spots filled with forwards McMullen, Brent Baltus, Tyler Berkholtz, Merrimack commit Alex Holland and defenseman Djordje Leposavic. Berkholtz and Holland both spent last season in the BCHL on Vancouver Island while Leposavic returns to his home province after playing Junior “A” in North Bay, Ontario last year.

To view the full roster, click here.
 

  (Nathan can be reached at nathanfournier@mainehockeyjournal.com)