Big shoes to fill for newest senior Timbermen players

Emms spoke highly of his long time friend. "He's a gritty player and likes to get dirty, I think we'll both fit well in Nanaimo," he said. Timbermen's general manager Earl Nicholson said the two have been on their radar for several years, going back to the when the late Keith Westwood was a scout with the club. "He indicated to us, even in their first year of junior, that these two would be guys that we had to have if we were going to get to the contender stage in the next few years," said Nicholson. The biggest hurdle they may face early, is the knowledge of who they were traded for. It will be unreasonable to expect either, or both, to entirely fill the void left by Ranger - an original Timber-men and the franchise's all-time leading scorer - but there will be no getting around the fact that they are who he was traded for. "People realize that Jake and are not Scott Ranger," said Dexter. "But we both bring our aspects and I'm sure people will see that we are coming out every night and doing the best we can and laying it on the floor for the team and hopefully people will appreciate that."