Here are some clips from the Vernon Vipers-Salmon Arm Silverbacks game December 29th 2024 in front of a sellout/standing room only at Rogers Rink in Salmon Arm.
Image credit: Salmon Arm Silverbacks
Vernon Vipers defenceman Daniil Dolzhenko scores his first goal of the season at 10:14 of the 1st period
Here is the goal from the BCHL X page,
BCHL on X: "The snakes are rolling early! 🐍 Daniil Dolzhenko hammers home his first BCHL goal to give the Vipers a 2-0 lead in the opening frame. 🎙️ @GrahamT_Vipers | @VernonVipers #BCHL https://t.co/Egv65iPoa5" / X
Salmon Arm Silverbacks forward Aidan Willis gives the Silverbacks a 4-3 lead at 5:02 of the 3rd period.
Here is the goal from the BCHL X page,
BCHL on X: "What an answer! The Silverbacks score just 10 seconds after giving up the tying goal in the third period and the Aidan Willis marker stands up as the game winner. 🎙️ @Stewart7Zach | @SASilverbacks #BCHL https://t.co/25cONSaLGt" / X
12 comments:
Again conditioning. You come out strong in the first period but not the same effort in the second or third. I rest my case. The same intense effort must be made in all periods. Salmon arm does it. Penticton does it. Why not the Vipers. Conditioning.
The Vipers are conditioned. To play at this level, you have to be in good shape or you won’t survive. Between practices, workouts, nutrition, and games, it’s a full time job for these players and coaches. Successful Jr. hockey teams have good goaltending, good D, good F, and capitalize on special teams to win games. The Vipers haven’t found success on the PP or PK during crunch time which has led to poor results and a up and down season thus far. I have been watching the Vipers for many years and believe it’s just a matter of time before they start to get some bounces and things start to go their way.
It's not conditioning or maybe we might get better it's the quality of the players who have been recruited. When Duncan Wray was the owner he and Mark Ferner recruited the best players that were available and every other team wanted to be like the Vipers. Basically now all we can recruit are the leftovers that nobody else wants.
Not entirely accurate. At the start of the season the Vipers had 10-12 D1 commits on the roster. The problem was that most of them were lied to in order to get them signed. Told they would play certain roles and then scratched or traded before they got a chance to play and prove their worth. D1 schools don’t give out commitments without a high degree of certainty the kid can play. Vipers should have stuck with the original roster, let the young guys develop and adjust to the junior game and we’d be seeing a lot more success at this point. Instead, they panicked and started this crazy revolving door of players and are constantly starting from scratch. Big changes are needed in leadership and coaching.
I won't mention names but a player has left the team
Totally disagree with you Anonymous. The very first year the demise of this team started when Jason McKee took over. Trey Taylor was the first to leave and others were shipped out because of coaching and ownership differences with the players. Have we recruited an elite or even a Star player in the last 5 years, I think not!
Player to leave?, you mean MacDonald?
Why do I say conditioning?? When Mark Ferner became coach one of the things he addressed was conditioning. Although you think there athletes and come to camp fit , well that's is not always the way it is. Mark wasn't happy with his players and sought out to improve there conditioning first. This can also be said about Eddy Johnstone a longtime NHL player who was a coach and Troy Mick also a coach for vernon vipers and Ed for the lakers.all not happy with there conditioning and worked to improve it. Well I wonder what happened,HMMM? Let me see 3 national canadian trophies . So yes conditioning does play a factor if your serious about being in the win column. GO,VIPERS,GO.
Totally disagree with you. You cannot lie to guys to get them to sign, then expect them to stay around when they have options, and aren’t playing. More importantly, we had some top tier players with big roles that just left. Why?
Did he leave? He played in both games this past weekend.
Best all around we had.
The BCHL has lost over 40 players to the CHL since the recent NCAA rule change. I wouldn’t blame Vernon or any other BCHL team for player departures. The blame should fall on the NCAA for not realizing where D1 hockey players come from. Prior to the NCAA-CHL rule change, the best D1 players came almost exclusively through the USHL, BCHL, and NAHL as CHL players weren’t allowed to play NCAA D1 hockey. Now that CHL players are eligible to play NCAA D1 hockey, there are more options available to the players. The BCHL is now competing directly with the WHL, OHL, QMJHL, and the USHL. This has forced NCAA D1 college coaches to shift recruiting efforts away from the BCHL and NAHL to almost exclusively recruiting the CHL and USHL before the BCHL. Thus the reason for BCHL players leaving to go to the CHL and for average or cut players from the CHL to come to the BCHL. Look at our roster this year with all of the changes and you will see what’s happening across the league. Even if a BCHL player is already committed to a D1 school and leaves for the CHL, the college coaches and players want to play against the best players so they’re ready when they arrive on campus. The best players are no longer in the BCHL. The BCHL is a great league, and the Vipers are a team I have watched for many years. Our rink and fan support is very good. The BCHL will need to rethink its strategy moving forward in order to get the very best players and be on par with the CHL as both leagues are now eligible for the NCAA to recruit players from.
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