The 2010-11 Kimberley Dynamiters seem to have size, speed and skill to burn. Now they just need to work on their focus.

The Nitros opened up the KIJHL campaign with a 5-1 home victory over the Creston Valley Thundercats, but travelled to Invermere on Saturday and lost 5-3 to the Columbia Valley Rockies.

With a much larger Kimberley lineup than has been seen in years ? if ever ? at least the Dynamiters showed they won?t be pushed around.

?There?s no intimidation factor,? said head coach and general manager Garry Jacklin.

?Invermere tried that a little bit (Saturday night) and they can?t intimidate us because we?re big and strong. Sometimes we?re just a little bit lazy and that?s what happened (against the Rockies). I think we thought we were going to walk in there and beat them by 10 goals. By the time it was 2-0, we were starting to reel ourselves back in.?

Stephen Hynes and Kory Movold gave the Rockies that 2-0 lead, with Hynes?s marker coming in the first minute.

?It?s 26 seconds into the game and there?s a puck behind Tory (Caldwell). We?re all going, ?Uh-oh, what?s going on?? We?ve got to find a way to cure that,? said Jacklin. ?I can go kick garbage cans and kick sticks around but that only works once or twice and they need to find a way to motivate themselves to be ready to go.?

Brennan Foreman (power play) and Clayton Tilleman scored on either side of Kevin Dunlop?s goal to make it 3-2 Rockies after two.

Kimberley captain Alex Hall tied the game early in the third, before Julian Fraser put Columbia Valley back on top with five minutes left.

Briar McNaney scored into an empty net to close out scoring.

?We had a good push right at the end, for about 15 minutes into the third period, and we dominated them pretty good,? said Jacklin. ?But we needed that for 45 minutes to start.?

Last year?s Eddie Mountain Division doormats, the Rockies are off to a 2-0 start to this campaign.

?We?ve got a pretty strong team, we just didn?t come to compete,? said Jacklin. ?Our motto is: if we compete with every shift and every day, we?ll win every game. If we don?t, we?re not going to win every game.?

HOME WIN

On Friday, a 22-save effort from Caldwell and strong play from Kimberley?s defence paved the way to victory.

?They kept everything to the outside and Tory played great,? said Jacklin. ?He made some big saves and when we were floundering a little bit he kept us in the game. From my view, when we got to about a period-and-a-half, Creston looked tired and then we took it to them for the rest of the game.?

Robbie Stuckey opened scoring with a shorthanded marker eight minutes in, but that was all Creston could muster.

Kristian Petit tied the game, and Brock Leavins gave Kimberley the lead. In the third period, Clayton Tilleman scored a pair and Soren Hills got one to put the game out of reach.

Tilleman finished the weekend with three goals and two assists.

?He?s the kind of guy that?s not flashy and you don?t notice him but he does have a nose for the net and he?s a very smart hockey player,? said Jacklin. ?He doesn?t dance around guys and make fancy moves to score goals, but he can score goals from pretty much everywhere. He sees the ice very well.?

The new-look Nitros put on display Friday were quite a bit bigger than previous iterations of the team. Jacklin said he hadn?t started out to necessarily ice a larger club, but wound up finding swift, skilled players who happen to be big.

?We?ve got some big guys that can skate well, like the new kid we got out of Trail: (at 6-foot-3, 200 pounds, Ben Greenaway) can fly as fast as Jordan Revie. A Jordan Foreman can skate with anybody in the league and he?s a big kid.?