President's Update - Monday, February 11th, 2013

Provincials Update

Provincial ‘A’

Cupar Canucks – The Canucks lost to LeRoy on Saturday evening 5-3 in LeRoy and played game three of their series on Sunday evening in Cupar. With the score tied at one after two periods, the Canucks would get two goals from Jaret Eberle and a goal from Justin Bernhardt in the third period and go on to a 4-1 victory. The Canucks now play the Balcarres Broncs.

Lumsden Monarchs – The Lumsden Monarchs played game three of their series with the Arcola/Kisbey Combines on Saturday evening in Arcola. The Monarchs led 3-1 after one period with two goals from Tyson Getzinger and a goal from Zak Anderson. Brett Matlock scored in the second period and then Austin Preete scored in the third period to make the final 5-2 Monarchs. Lumsden will now play the Midale Mustangs.

Wynyard Monarchs – The Wynyard Monarchs swept the Dalmeny Fury with a second game 5 – 2 victory in Dalmeny on Saturday evening. Scoring came from five different scorers for the Monarchs….Donovan Hall, Derek Halldorson, Brett Leffler, Aaron Lindal and Bryan Kauk. Wynyard will now play the Rosthern Wheat Kings.

Raymore Rockets – The Rockets lost to the Balcarres Broncs on Wednesday evening 4-3 and then came back with a 7-4 victory on Saturday evening in Balcarres. On Sunday evening Balcarres jumped out to a 3-0 lead after one period and went on to defeat the Rockets 5-2 and win the series 2-1. Balcarres now play the Cupar Canucks.

Provincial ‘C’

Southey Marlins – The Southey Marlins were down one goal in their series with the Langenburg Warriors and on Sunday evening defeated the Warriors 7-3 in Langenburg and won their series 11-8. The Marlins now play the Radville Nationals.

Provincial ‘D’

Avonlea Arrows – The Avonlea Arrows defeated the Frontier Flyers on Sunday in Frontier 5-3. The Arrows won their series 15-5. Avonlea will now play the Craik Warriors.

Bethune Bulldogs – Down 4-1 after their game in Bredenbury, the Bulldogs exploded for five goals in the first period on their way to a 10-4 victory over the Cougars. Lucas Ulmer had three goals and Mike Reich had four goals to lead the way for the Bulldogs. Bethune will now play the Odessa Bruins.

Six of our eight teams have advanced to the next round of Provincials after this past weekend’s play. We will update schedules on Provincial page and our Upcoming games as we receive the information over the next few days.

League Update

We complete our schedule....Lumsden is in Bethune on Tuesday evening and Strasbourg is in Bethune on Wednesday night to complete our 2012-13 regular season schedule.

Playoffs begin this weekend with best of five quarterfinals. The Cupar Canucks play the Lumsden Monarchs and the Wynyard Monarchs play the Southey Marlins. The Bethune Bulldogs have the tiebreaker over Raymore and they have the tiebreaker if there is a three team tie and they will finish fourth place. The Raymore Rockets will finish fifth even if Strasbourg ties them as they hold the tiebreaker over Strasbourg. They will play Bethune. That would leave last year’s finalists, Avonlea and Strasbourg, playing in a quarterfinal.  We will have all of our playoffs showing under our Schedule tab and under Upcoming Games on the front page. Box scores will be located under the Schedule tab.

We will update results of this past week of regular play and get you ready for playoffs with our President’s Update on Thursday.

All Star and Award ballots are going out to our teams this week and we will publish nominees over the course of the next few updates.

Thank you for supporting the HHL….as soon as we get the times and dates for all provincials and League playoffs the updates will be here for you...there is lots of hockey to watch…see you at the rink.

Gerry Tomkins

President – HHL

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