Gerry's blog

Provincials are here...All of our teams have until February 19th to get their first round of Provincials completed. In Provincial 'A' all of our teams play QVHL teams. The Cupar Canucks will open up their best of three series against the Grenfell Spitfires in Cupar on Saturday, February 10th. Game two will be the following Sunday in Grenfell and if a game three is required it will be on Sunday the 18th of February in Grenfell. The Southey Marlins open up their series with the Balgonie Bisons on Saturday, February 10th in Southey.

Bulldogs Back in first place....The Bethune Bulldogs defeated the Raymore Rockets 8-2 last Tuesday evening in Raymore and then defeated the Southey Marlins 8-2 on Friday evening to take their record to 10-1-1 for 21 points.

Bulldogs rebound....The Bethune Bulldogs defeated the Strasbourg Maroons 5-0 on Saturday evening. The Bulldogs lost to the Maroons in Strasbourg just before the Christmas break. Mike Reich scored on a power play in the first period to give the Bulldogs a 1-0 lead. In the second period Drew George and Coltyn Sanderson scored to make it 3-0.

On behalf of the entire league we wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year....Only two games this week with Bethune in Strasbourg on Tuesday evening and Cupar in Raymore on Friday evening. Both games start at 8 p.m. We are back in action beginning Friday, January 5th, 2018.

Rockets roll at home...The Raymore Rockets went 3 for 3 on the power play in the first period and went on to beat the Strasbourg Maroons 8-1 on Friday evening in Raymore. Tyrell Shulko scored two of the power play goals and Josh Jordan scored the other as the Rockets built a 4-0 lead in the first period. Tyler Bell, Michael Jordan with two goals, Catlin Sich and Tristan Third also scored for the Rockets. Garret Lockeridge scored for the Maroons.

Monarchs defeat Maroons.... The Lumsden Monarchs maintained first place in the HHL with a 6-1 victory over the Strasbourg Maroons on Saturday evening in Strasbourg. Torey Lindsey and Justin Nychuk both scored twice in the game to lead the way for the Monarchs. Braeden Raiwet and Jake Latimer also scored for Lumsden. Tyson Orban scored for Strasbourg. Kurtis Sollosy picked up the win in net for the Monarchs stopping 25 shots.

Bulldogs back on track...Since losing to the Raymore Rockets in the first game of the year the Bulldogs have won three games in a row including a tight one Saturday evening against the Rockets. Raymore opened the scoring in this game late in the first period with a power play goal from Cody Mapes.

The Streak is over.....The Bethune Bulldogs went 51 games....League, Provincials, Exhibition without losing a game.....their last loss was against Watrous in the first round of Provincials on January 29th, 2016 losing 3-2 in a game they actually led with less than three minutes to go. Their last league loss was to the Raymore Rockets on January 20th, 2016 by a score of 9-1.

Congratulations Southey Marlins on a wonderful opening night on Saturday evening. Senior hockey is definitely back in Southey. Although the Marlins fell short on the scoreboard, it was a good game, a great crowd and to those involved in getting senior hockey back in Southey, this was a great start. Of particular interest was the program that the Marlins have put together. Thank you to all of the sponsors in that program for helping making things happen in Southey. This was a job well done.

The 2017-18 season is here and I'm the first to admit that it hasn't been easy getting here...but we are ready. First I apologize for the lateness of the schedule. We could not agree on the obvious 20 game schedule and we wanted more than 16 games....so 18 it is. It is impossible to make a good 18 game schedule with 6 teams....with 5 yes....with 7 yes. Bottom line is that schedule has been approved and away we go. We will work on getting to the even schedule next year. We have lost two teams.