President's Update - December 23rd, 2013

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President’s Update – December 23rd, 2013

On Friday evening the Avonlea Arrows picked up their sixth win in a row with a 5-0 win over the Southey Marlins. Calder Neufeld had two goals and Shay Neufeld, Josh Jelinski and Calvin Watson provided the balance of the scoring. Gavin Mievre picked up three assists in this game. Nathan Fischl picked up the shutout in net and Kurtis Sollosy was in net for the Marlins. Each team had four minor penalties.

The Cupar Canucks picked up six goals in the first period and rolled to an 11-4 victory over the Bethune Bulldogs. Tyler Stewart led the way for the Canucks with two goals (1 PPG) and one assist while Donovan Brown had a goal and two assists. Jaret Eberle scored twice (1 PPG) and added two assists, Travis Orr scored twice (1 PPG), Brett Boha had two goals and one assist, Kyle Ross had a power play goal and three assists and Shea Van Leuven picked up his ninth goal of the year. Scoring for the Bulldogs were Mike Reich scored twice (1 SHG), Jacob Ulmer who scored on the power play and Derek Fuchs who scored in his third straight game. Jamie Wutke picked up the win in net for the Canucks and Ryan Seibel was in net for the Bulldogs. The Canucks had seven minor penalties and two misconducts and the Bulldogs had ten minor penalties.

n Lumsden, the Maroons got power play goals from Eric Schultz and Greg Ferguson in the first period and the Maroons went on to score four times in the second period and three times in the third period to post a 9-2 win over the Monarchs. Eric Schultz, Mitch McNish and Greg Ferguson each scored twice for the Maroons in this game. Brady Heintz, Kurtis decker and Quinn McIntosh also scored for Strasbourg. McIntosh had four assists to go along with his goal for a five point night. Russ Neilson and Brady Aulie scored for the Monarchs. Jeremy Ellis picked up his second win of the year in net for the Maroons stopping 25 of 27 shots fired his way. Trevor Thiessen was in net for the Monarchs. Strasbourg had four minor penalties and Lumsden had two minor penalties in the game.

Wynyard Monarchs scored four times in the second period to break open a 1-1 game and go on to defeat the Raymore Rockets 6-2 in Raymore. Last year’s Tyson Sievert trophy winner, Brett Leffler, led the way for the Monarchs with two goals (1 PPG) and two assists. Donovan Hall also had two goals (1 PPG)  plus an assist while Joey MacDonald and Bryan Kauk also scored for Wynyard. Raymore’s scoring came on the power play from Tyrell Shulko and Cody Mapes. David Perkin picked up his seventh win of the year in net for the Monarchs. John Arscott was in net for the Rockets. The Rockets had twelve minor penalties, two fighting majors and two game misconducts in this game. The Monarchs had thirteen minor penalties, two fighting majors and two game misconducts.

On Saturday evening in Wynyard, the Monarchs scored twice in first period and never relinquished the lead on their way to a 7-3 victory over the Strasbourg Maroons. Brett Leffler scored three times, twice on the power play and once shorthanded, to lead the way for the Monarchs. Joey MacDonald, Andrew Bzdel, Donovan Hall and Dale Spelchen also scored for the Monarchs. Bryan Kauk had five assists for the Monarchs. Branden Sentes, Quinn McIntosh and Tanner Exner scored for the Maroons. Dave Perkin picked up his league leading eighth win of the year in net for the Monarchs and Tyler Kifferling was in net for the Maroons. The Monarchs had six minor penalties and the Marrons had three.

In the scorefest in Southey, the Raymore Rockets were down 3-0 to the Marlins before they erupted with five goals in six minutes and sixteen seconds to take a 5-3 lead. The Rockets scored five goals in the second period but the Marlins persisted with six goals of their own to be down only one goal going into the third period. The final three goals of the game were scored by the Rockets in the third period to pull out a 13-9 victory. The story of the night was the nine point efforts from Tyrell Shulko who scored seven times (1 PPG) and had two assists and the one goal and eight assists from Josh Jordan. Just as impressive on the Marlins side was eight point effort by Pat Thompson-Gale who had four goals (2 PPG) and four assists. Barry is going through our statistics to see if we have had a seven goal scorer and where the nine points in one game fits in our history. Needless to say, Tyrell Shulko now leads all scorers in the league with sixteen goals. Todd MacMurchy had a goal and two assists, Cody Mapes had two goals (1 PPG) and an assist, Kyle Schmalenburg had a goal and Reid Colley had a power play goal and an assist. For the Marlins, Elliot Hubick had two goals (1 PPG) and an assist, Dominic Perrault had a power play goal and three assists, Shay Wirll had a power play goal and an assist and Jordan Heggin had a goal to go along with Thompson-Gale’s eight point night. Southey scored five power play goals and Raymore scored three. The Marlins had six minor penalties, a fighting major and a game misconduct. The Rockets had thirteen minor penalties, a fighting major and a game misconduct. As a result of a fight in the last ten minutes of the game, Nathan Strinja from Marlins has been assessed a two game suspension for Aggressor and for the fight in the last ten minutes of the game and Aaron Johnson from the Rockets received a two game suspension for Instigator and for a fight in the last ten minutes of the game. Deric Kuntz picked up the win in net for the Rockets. Gatlin Schwartz was in net for the Marlins.

We’ve had some other suspensions from the last week. Josh Jelinski from the Avonlea Arrows and Chris Whitteron from the Lumsden Monarchs each received a one game suspension from their game on December 13th. Bryan McNabb Jr. received a one game suspension from the December 14th game against Avonlea for Instigator. Brandyn Wasyliw was assessed a four game suspension from the December 13th game against Bethune. He received one game for a game misconduct in the last ten minutes of a game and three games for leaving the bench for the purpose of fighting. As a result of that suspension, Strasbourg Maroons Coach Darrell Orban received a three game suspension.

We have a great race going for the Tyson Sievert Scoring Trophy….Pat Thompson-Gale from the Marlins leads the pack with 29 points in 11 games. He is followed closely by Kyle Ross from the Cupar Canucks who has 28 points including a league leading 18 assists in nine games, by Wynyard’s Brett Leffler, last year’s scoring champion, who has 27 points in 10 games and his fellow Monarch Bryan Kauk who has 27 points in 11 games. Leffler also leads all scorers with 7 power play goals. Teammate Chad Mazurak is next with 5 power play goals. Mike Reich from the Bulldogs and Pat Thompson-Gale from the Marlins lead all scorers with 3 shorthanded goals each.

Nathan Fischl from the Avonlea Arrows leads all goalies with a 2.47 GAA. Dave Perkin from Wynyard leads all goalies with 8 wins and also leads the league with 577 minutes played.

The top power play unit in the league belongs to the Wynyard Monarchs who are at 34.6% success. They are followed by Southey Marlins at 32.7% and the Strasbourg Maroons at 26.7%. The Lumsden Monarchs have the lowest success rate at 16.3%. The top penalty killing unit in the league belongs to the Cupar Canucks at 85.7%. They are followed by the Avonlea Arrows at 80% and the Bethune Bulldogs at 77.8%. The Raymore Rockets have the lowest success rate at 65.7%. There have been 18 shorthanded goals as we have hit the halfway point of 40 games this year. The Bethune Bulldogs have scored the most shorthanded goals with 5. The Wynyard Monarchs and the Southey Marlins have four each. The Lumsden Monarchs have given up the most shorthanded goals with 5. The Wynyard Monarchs have given up 4. The Raymore Rockets and the Lumsden Monarchs are the only teams in the league that have not scored a shorthanded goal so far this year. The Bethune Bulldogs are the most penalized team in the League with an average of 29.3 minutes per game. They are followed by Wynyard at 27.8 minutes and the Cupar Canucks at 26.1 minutes. The Lumsden Monarchs have received the fewest minutes per game of penalties at 12.9 minutes. The Strasbourg Maroons at 14 minutes and the Southey Marlins at 16.1 minutes follow the Monarchs. Other statistics of note….the Wynyard Monarchs are a perfect 6-0-0 when playing at home and the Avonlea Arrows are a perfect 5-0-0 when scoring first.

We only have one game between now and the first weekend in January. The Avonlea Arrows are in Wynyard on Saturday, December 28th. We apologize for moving the Lumsden @ Bethune game from December 28th to January 18th. As much as we make the effort to keep the schedule as drawn up, circumstances arise and it is the last thing we want to do is move a game. Thank you for your patience. We will update all games in our main schedule.

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Gerry Tomkins

HHL President