Maroons win two games on weekend….

The Strasbourg Maroons defeated the Cupar Canucks at home on Friday evening 9-5 and upended the Wynyard Monarchs in Wynyard Saturday evening 6-4 to up their record to 2-0-1. On Friday evening Cupar got goals from Brayden Frank, Travis Orr and Kyle hill on the power play to take a 3-0 lead into the second period. The Maroons woke up in the second period and proceeded to score eight goals including two power play goals to take an 8-3 lead going into the final frame. Greg Ferguson scored three times in the period for the Maroons. Tye Exner, Dylan Marcott and Mark Cross would also score. Eric Schultz and Garret Lockeridge would score on the power play. Mark Cross would complete the hat trick with two goals in the third period while Cody Hall and Dylan Mohr would complete the scoring for the Canucks. Tyler Kifferling would pick up the win in the net for the Maroons. Colby Miller and Tanner Kehler split time in the Canucks net. The Canucks had two minor penalties, two major penalties and a game misconduct. The Maroons had eleven minor penalties, one major penalty, one misconduct and two game misconducts. Dillan Hubick (GM last 10 minutes) and Rhett Sandercock (Instigator) from the Maroons received one game suspensions and Taylor Orr received a three game suspension (Match) from this game. On Saturday evening the Maroons were in Wynyard. Kyle Kinequon scored for Wynyard and it was 1-0 after one period. In the second period Carter Buffalo put the Monarchs up 2-0 but Strasbourg would roar back with four goals as Mark Cross would score twice and Tayler Balog and Dylan Marcott would score on the power play before Jordan Karakochuk would score on the power play for the Monarchs and it was 4-3 Strasbourg going into the third period. In the third Donovan Thompson would score to give the Maroons a two goal lead but Eric Popadynec would score to get the Monarchs to within one before Sean Delwo would score late to give the Maroons a 6-4 victory. Jeremy Ellis picked up the win for the Maroons and Adam Jordan was in net for the Monarchs. Strasbourg had four minor penalties and Wynyard had five. The Maroons now have a big weekend hosting the Bethune Bulldogs (2-0-0) on Friday evening and going to Lumsden on Saturday evening to play the Monarchs (3-1-0).

Bethune Bulldogs pick up where they left off...

The Bethune Bulldogs, our defending champions and the Provincial ‘A’ champions, coasted to a 13-2 victory over the Wynyard Monarchs on Saturday evening in Bethune to open up their season. Mark Lustig had four goals and three assists, Drew George had one goal and five assists, Derek Fuchs had two goals and three assists, Jacob Ulmer had one goal and four assists, Mike Reich had one goal and four assists and Russ Nielson had one goal and two assists. Fuchs and George each scored a power play goal. Carter Buffalo and Donovan Hall scored for Wynyard. Ryan Holfeld and Ryan Seibel split the game in net facing 28 shots for the Bulldogs and Adam Jordan was in net for the Monarchs facing 54 shots. The Monarchs had five minor penalties and the Bulldogs had one. Also on Saturday evening the Raymore Rockets played their first game of the year in Avonlea. The Rockets got two goals each from Tyrell Shulko and Cody Mapes and a goal from Emery Anderson in the first period to take a commanding 5-0 lead. The Arrows, coming off an overtime win against the Maroons the night before, responded with three goals in the second period with Brett Kealey scoring twice and Devin Cobbold scoring on the power play. In the third period Braden Bentz would score on the power play and Josh Jordan would score before Stuart Holland would score for the Arrows late in the period to make the final score 7-4 for the Rockets. David Perkin would pick up the win in net for the Rockets and Dean Brothen was in net for the Arrows. The Arrows had four minor penalties and the Rockets had two. Also on Saturday evening, the Lumsden Monarchs would pick up their second win of the year with a 7-3 victory over the Cupar Canucks. This game was tied 2-2 going into the third period and would stay that way through almost 13 minutes of the third period and then the Monarchs scored five goals in five minutes and nineteen seconds to put the game away. For the Monarchs Kyle Johnson had two goals and one assist, Dale Spelchen had one goal and three assists, Liam Brennan had a goal and an assist, Tyler Penny had a goal and an assist and Torrey Lindsey and Andrew Perrault also scored. Godric Tham scored twice for the Canucks and Brett Boha also scored. There were no special teams goals in this game. Will Hood picked up the win in net for the Monarchs and Colby Miller was in net for the Canucks. Each team had three minor penalties.

The 2016-17 season began Friday evening in Lumsden. We had full rosters and we had a very entertaining game to begin the season. There was no scoring in the first ten minutes and then Cupar got into a little penalty trouble and the Monarchs scored three power play goals. Liam Brennan scored twice and Torrey Lindsey scored the other goal. Lumsden led 3-0 after one period and outshot the Canucks 15-5 in the first period. In the second period the play got a little tighter and there were few shots in the first 10 minutes. Travis Orr would score on the power play 14 minutes into the period and then Taylor Orr would steal the puck and score two minutes later and it was 3-2 after two periods. Shots were 27-15 for the Monarchs after two periods. In the third period the Canucks wasted no time making the game 3-3 when Cody Hall scored on the power play. The game went 17 minutes until the Monarchs sciored with just over a minute left off the stick of Dale Spelchen. Tyler Penny would score the final goal and Lumsden would win 5-3. Both goalies played well with Matt Weninger picking up the win for the Monarchs stopping 22 of 25 shots and Colby Miller who stopped 32 of 37 shots fired his way. Lumsden had eight minor penalties and Cupar had five. Each team had a game misconduct.

This weekend everyone else gets into the fray with Avonlea opening up in Strasbourg and Cupar in Wynyard on Friday evening. Our defending champions, and Provincial 'A' champions, Bethune Bulldogs open up at home Saturday evening against the Wynyard Monarchs. The Raymore Rockets will be in Avonlea and the Lumsden Monarchs will be in Cupar to play the Canucks.

We have a limited run of pocket schedules that should be available this weekend. Please get out to a game near you.

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